Startpage

A startpage with lightweight and privacy-friendly YouTube feed designed for flat gruvbox themed window managers.

The project is currently in development. You can experience missing features.

Features

• YouTube data from Piped API
• Support for channels and playlists
• No need to install self-hosted proxy services

Roadmap

• Youtube channel support
• Youtube playlist support
• Feed
• Feed cache
• Feed fetch indicator
• Feed filter
• Feed sync button
• Feed editor
• Feed add item
• Feed lazyloading
• Search bar
• Search bar indicator
• Search bar suggestions
• Channel editor page
• Bookmarks
• Bookmarks editor
• Bookmarks add item
• Settings
• Settings editor
• Settings import/export
• Offline mode
• Keyboard shortcuts
• Encrypted server synchronization
• Not Found page

Development

Setup

npm install

Build

npm run build

Hot reload build

npm run dev

Open videos in app

You can configure Startpage to open videos in a desktop app like mpv.

1. Register custom protocol in Firefox

In about:config create boolean variable network.protocol-handler.expose.mpv with false value.

More here.

2. Create launcher

#!/bin/bash

mpv "${1/mpv:/}"

3. In settings enable Open videos in app.

4. Click on a link and select launcher from step 2