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Setup

This Guide is for the docker image wardpearce/materialious NOT wardpearce/materialious-full

CORS

To assure browsers they are allowed to access your Materialious instance despite their default same-origin policy, the instance's webserver needs to send cross-origin resource sharing (CORS) headers in its response to the browser's OPTIONS request. The Access-Control-Allow-Origin header of that response must be set to the public origin URI of your instance.

Invidious doesn't provide a simple way to modify CORS, so this must be done with your reverse proxy.

Step 1: Reverse proxy

Caddy example

invidious.example.com {
	@cors_preflight {
		method OPTIONS
	}
	respond @cors_preflight 204

	header Access-Control-Allow-Credentials true
        header Access-Control-Allow-Origin "https://materialious.example.com" {
		defer
	}
        header Access-Control-Allow-Methods "GET,POST,OPTIONS,HEAD,PATCH,PUT,DELETE"
        header Access-Control-Allow-Headers "User-Agent,Authorization,Content-Type"

	reverse_proxy localhost:3000
}

materialious.example.com {
	reverse_proxy localhost:3001
}

Nginx example

server {
    listen 80;
    server_name invidious.example.com;

    location / {
        if ($request_method = OPTIONS) {
            return 204;
        }

        proxy_hide_header Access-Control-Allow-Origin;
        add_header Access-Control-Allow-Credentials true;
        add_header Access-Control-Allow-Origin "https://materialious.example.com" always;
        add_header Access-Control-Allow-Methods "GET, POST, OPTIONS, HEAD, PATCH, PUT, DELETE" always;
        add_header Access-Control-Allow-Headers "User-Agent, Authorization, Content-Type" always;

        proxy_pass http://localhost:3000;
    }
}

server {
    listen 80;
    server_name materialious.example.com;

    location / {
        proxy_pass http://localhost:3001;
    }
}

Nginx Proxy Manager example

  1. Tab: Details - Create a new proxy host with SSL on (Let's Encrypt or your own certificate).
  2. Tab: Custom locations, fill in IP and port. Click gear icon to add some security headers.

Click image for fullsize:

Add:

    if ($request_method = OPTIONS) {
      return 204;
    }

    proxy_hide_header Access-Control-Allow-Origin;
    add_header Access-Control-Allow-Credentials true;
    add_header Access-Control-Allow-Origin "https://materialious.example.com" always;
    add_header Access-Control-Allow-Methods "GET, POST, OPTIONS, HEAD, PATCH, PUT, DELETE" always;
    add_header Access-Control-Allow-Headers "User-Agent, Authorization, Content-Type" always;

Click Save.

Traefik example

Add this middleware to your Invidious instance:

http:
  middlewares:
    materialious:
      headers:
        accessControlAllowCredentials: true
        accessControlAllowOriginList: "https://materialious.example.com"
        accessControlAllowMethods:
          - GET
          - POST
          - OPTIONS
          - HEAD
          - PATCH
          - PUT
          - DELETE
        accessControlAllowHeaders:
          - User-Agent
          - Authorization
          - Content-Type

Invidious Companion support

The VITE_DEFAULT_COMPANION_INSTANCE environment variable allows you to specify a custom Invidious Companion instance.

public_url MUST be set in Invidious under invidious_companion for companion to work with Materialious.

e.g.

invidious_companion:
  - private_url: "http://companion:8282/companion"
    public_url:  "http://companion.example.com/companion"

To use this with Materialious, your Invidious Companion instance must be accessible with proper CORS headers. Fortunately, you can reuse the same reverse proxy configuration (with CORS modifications) that you applied to your Invidious instance—just apply it to your companion domain as well.

For example, if you're using Caddy, you can configure your companion domain like this:

companion.example.com {
	@cors_preflight {
		method OPTIONS
	}
	respond @cors_preflight 204

	header Access-Control-Allow-Credentials true
	header Access-Control-Allow-Origin "https://materialious.example.com" {
		defer
	}
	header Access-Control-Allow-Methods "GET, POST, OPTIONS, HEAD, PATCH, PUT, DELETE"
	header Access-Control-Allow-Headers "User-Agent, Authorization, Content-Type"

	reverse_proxy localhost:3000
}

Other

Please open a PR request or issue if you implement this in a different reverse proxy.

Step 2: Invidious config

The following Invidious values must be set in your config.

  • domain: - The reverse proxied domain of your Invidious instance.
  • https_only: true - Must be set if you are using HTTPS.
  • external_port: 443 - Must be set if you are using HTTPS.

Step 3: Docker

Please ensure you have followed the previous steps before doing this!

Docker Compose

services:
  materialious:
    image: wardpearce/materialious:latest
    restart: unless-stopped
    ports:
      - 3001:80
    environment:
      # No trailing backslashes!
      # URL to your proxied Invidious instance
      VITE_DEFAULT_INVIDIOUS_INSTANCE: "https://invidious.materialio.us"

      # URL to your proxied Companion instance
      VITE_DEFAULT_COMPANION_INSTANCE: "https://companion.materialio.us"

      # URL TO RYD (Return YouTube Dislike / https://github.com/Anarios/return-youtube-dislike)
      # Leave blank to disable completely.
      VITE_DEFAULT_RETURNYTDISLIKES_INSTANCE: "https://returnyoutubedislikeapi.com"

      # URL to Sponsorblock
      # Leave blank to completely disable sponsorblock.
      VITE_DEFAULT_SPONSERBLOCK_INSTANCE: "https://sponsor.ajay.app"

      # URL to DeArrow
      VITE_DEFAULT_DEARROW_INSTANCE: "https://sponsor.ajay.app"

      # URL to DeArrow thumbnail instance
      VITE_DEFAULT_DEARROW_THUMBNAIL_INSTANCE: "https://dearrow-thumb.ajay.app"

      # Look at "Overwriting Materialious defaults" for all the accepted values.
      VITE_DEFAULT_SETTINGS: '{"themeColor": "#2596be","region": "US"}'

Overwriting Materialious defaults

Materialious allows you to overwrite the default values using VITE_DEFAULT_SETTINGS, see SETTINGS for more details.

Please note: These overwrites only apply on 1st load & won't replace existing configuration stored in browser local storage.

Step 1: Docker compose

Add the following to your docker compose file.

tor-proxy:
  image: 1337kavin/alpine-tor:latest
  restart: unless-stopped
  environment:
    - tors=15

ryd-proxy:
  image: 1337kavin/ryd-proxy:latest
  restart: unless-stopped
  depends_on:
    - tor-proxy
  environment:
    - PROXY=socks5://tor-proxy:5566
  ports:
    - 3003:3000

Without TOR

ryd-proxy:
  image: 1337kavin/ryd-proxy:latest
  restart: unless-stopped
  ports:
    - 3003:3000

Step 2:

Reverse proxy RYD-Proxy.

Caddy example

ryd-proxy.example.com {
  header Access-Control-Allow-Origin "https://materialious.example.com" {
      defer
  }
  header Access-Control-Allow-Methods "GET,OPTIONS"
  reverse_proxy localhost:3003
}

Nginx example

server {
    listen 80;
    server_name ryd-proxy.example.com;

    location / {
        add_header Access-Control-Allow-Origin "https://materialious.example.com" always;
        add_header Access-Control-Allow-Methods "GET, OPTIONS" always;
        proxy_pass http://localhost:3003;
    }
}

Traefik example

Add this middleware to your RYD-Proxy instance:

http:
  middlewares:
    ryd-proxy:
      headers:
        accessControlAllowOriginList: "https://materialious.example.com"
        accessControlAllowMethods:
          - GET
          - OPTIONS

Step 3:

Modify/add VITE_DEFAULT_RETURNYTDISLIKES_INSTANCE for Materialious to be the reverse proxied URL of RYD-Proxy.

Step 5 (Optional): Self-host PeerJS

Read the official guide.

Add these additional environment variables to Materialious.

# Will differ depending on how you self-host peerjs.
VITE_DEFAULT_PEERJS_HOST: "peerjs.example.com"
VITE_DEFAULT_PEERJS_PATH: "/"
VITE_DEFAULT_PEERJS_PORT: 443