Invidious.nerdvpn.de

Invidious fork with customizations for invidious.nerdvpn.de

Theme for my instance is based on: https://github.com/Tsyron/Invidious-Theme

Original repo at: https://github.com/iv-org/invidious

Based upon patches from:

• https://github.com/yewtudotbe/invidious-custom
• https://git.nadeko.net/Fijxu/invidious

Requirements

You'll have to set these up yourself:

• PostgreSQL 16 Server
• Nginx Web Server (1.26 or higher for quic support)
• HAProxy 2.x with my config under etc/haproxy/haproxy.conf
• (optional) PGBouncer, recommended if you want to host a public instance to pool connections to PSQL, otherwise you might run into DB pool errors
• (optional) Anubis https://github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis, recommended if you want to host a public instance and not get DDoS'ed from bots and ai
• Docker Compose V2

Build instructions

Do this in a separate dir (for example /srv/invidious) under non-root permissions

1. git clone https://github.com/Sommerwiesel/invidious-nerdvpn .
2. git clone https://github.com/iv-org/invidious build
3. git clone https://github.com/iv-org/invidious-companion companion
4. Modify the patches under invidious-nerdvpn/patches to your needs (i.e. change branding) and then run ./patch.sh
5. ./build.sh development for the development image or ./build.sh release for the production image
6. build.sh companion to build the invidious companion

Update instructions

1. Run ./revert.sh to remove all patches
2. Update both repos (build and companion) via git pull
3. Run the steps 5 and 6 again from the run instructions

Run instructions (docker compose)

• Simply run docker compose up -d

Run instructions (systemd)

First copy the invidious.service to /etc/systemd/system/

• Enable and start with: systemctl enable --now invidious.service