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  10                 <title>Invidious add-on for Kodi 20</title>
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  13                 <pubDate>Thu, 10 Aug 2023 19:50:00 +0200</pubDate>
  14                 <description>&lt;p&gt;I still enjoy &lt;a href=&quot;https://kodi.tv/&quot;&gt;Kodi&lt;/a&gt; and
  15 &lt;a href=&quot;https://libreelec.tv/&quot;&gt;LibreELEC&lt;/a&gt; as my multimedia center
  16 at home.  Sadly two of the services I really would like to use from
  17 within Kodi are not easily available.  The most wanted add-on would be
  18 one making &lt;a href=&quot;https://archive.org/&quot;&gt;The Internet Archive&lt;/a&gt;
  19 available, and it has
  20 &lt;a href=&quot;https://kodi.wiki/view/Add-on:Internet_Archive&quot;&gt;not been
  21 working&lt;/a&gt; for many years.  The second most wanted add-on is one
  22 using &lt;a href=&quot;https://invidious.io/&quot;&gt;the Invidious privacy enhanced
  23 Youtube frontent&lt;/a&gt;.  A plugin for this has been partly working, but
  24 not been kept up to date in the Kodi add-on repository, and its
  25 upstream seem to have given it up in April this year, when the git
  26 repository was closed.  A few days ago I got tired of this sad state
  27 of affairs and decided to
  28 &lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/kodi-invidious-plugin&quot;&gt;have
  29 a go at improving the Invidious add-on&lt;/a&gt;.  As
  30 &lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/iv-org/invidious/issues/3872&quot;&gt;Google has
  31 already attacked&lt;/a&gt; the Invidious concept, so it need all the support
  32 if can get.  My small contribution here is to improve the service
  33 status on Kodi.&lt;/p&gt;
  34
  35 &lt;p&gt;I added support to the Invidious add-on for automatically picking a
  36 working Invidious instance, instead of requiring the user to specify
  37 the URL to a specific instance after installation.  I also had a look
  38 at the set of patches floating around in the various forks on github,
  39 and decided to clean up at least some of the features I liked and
  40 integrate them into my new release branch.  Now the plugin can handle
  41 channel and short video items in search results.  Earlier it could
  42 only handle single video instances in the search response.  I also
  43 brushed up the set of metadata displayed a bit, but hope I can figure
  44 out how to get more relevant metadata displayed.&lt;/p&gt;
  45
  46 &lt;p&gt;Because I only use Kodi 20 myself, I only test on version 20 and am
  47 only motivated to ensure version 20 is working.  Because of API changes
  48 between version 19 and 20, I suspect it will fail with earlier Kodi
  49 versions.&lt;/p&gt;
  50
  51 &lt;p&gt;I already
  52 &lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/xbmc/repo-plugins/pull/4363&quot;&gt;asked to have
  53 the add-on added&lt;/a&gt; to the official Kodi 20 repository, and is
  54 waiting to heard back from the repo maintainers.&lt;/p&gt;
  55
  56 &lt;p&gt;As usual, if you use Bitcoin and want to show your support of my
  57 activities, please send Bitcoin donations to my address
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