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Piped

Alternative front-end for YouTube

Social Networks ★ 10.3k stars Easy setup AGPL-3.0-or-later

An alternative privacy-friendly YouTube frontend which is efficient by design.

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Strengths

  • Released under the AGPL-3.0-or-later license
  • Easy to set up — beginner-friendly
  • Mature project with 10.3k GitHub stars
  • Written in Vue

Is Piped secure?

OSV.dev has no published security advisories for Piped's repository. No known vulnerabilities is not proof of security: it means none have been publicly catalogued.

Source: OSV.dev, checked 2026-10-14. How this is measured.

Piped replaces

Self-hosted YouTube alternatives

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