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Welcome to Poke (formerly PokeTube), the privacy-friendly YouTube front-end built with the invidious API! Imagine paying for YouTube Premium just to download videos - couldn't be us (literally).

	🔙 Built-In Return YouTube Dislikes See the dislikes from returnyoutubedislike - because sometimes you need to know how bad that video really is :3
📱 PWA Support With PWA Support, you can install Poke on your mobile device. Now you can pretend to be productive while watching cat videos on the go, mreoww! :3
🎨 Customize Customize Poke however you want. Make it as unique as your taste in memes.	📥 Accounts Suscribe (yes Suscribe hehe sussy baka) to whaever channel you want!
🔍 Web Search Search the web privately on PokeTube. Incognito mode who?	🎶 And... Ambient mode, HQ audio, and even more! :3

Poke uses OpenH264, which is free software! No non-free components included :3 View the source code of OpenH264 here. Because who wants to deal with non-free stuff? Not us!~

1. Install Packages

   • Fedora/RHEL GNU/linux: $ sudo dnf install git make gcc libcurl nodejs python libcurl4 g++

   • Debian/Ubuntu GNU/linux: $ sudo apt install git make gcc libcurl4-openssl-dev nodejs npm python g++

     (we dont know if it works on non-gnu systems)

2. Clone Repo

   • Codeberg: $ git clone https://codeberg.org/ashley/poke.git
   • GitHub: $ git clone https://github.com/ashley0143/poke.git

   reccomended unoffical mirrors:

   • code.lgbt: $ git clone https://code.lgbt/mirror/poke.git [sync every 10mins]
   • git.lgbt: $ git clone https://git.lgbt/mirror/poke.git [sync every 10mins]
   • nin0git :$ git clone https://git.nin0.dev/mirrors/poke.git [sync every 10mins]

   not reccomended, unstable

   • SudoVanilla: $ git clone https://ark.sudovanilla.org/Korbs/poke.git [sync every update]

3. Install Dependencies

   • $ cd poke
   • $ npm install

4. Start Server

   • $ node server.js

   Congrats! Poke should now be running on localhost:6003! 🎉

Join us on Discord or Matrix! I promise we're cool! <3

or if u like fedi, we host PokeSocial as well :3

the main parts of the project is Under GPL-3.0-OR-LATER :3

see the each sections LICENSE tho!!

Copyleft 2021-202x Poke Project, mostly ashley0143 - poke does not support the "source first" or "open source" movement :3 - we support the free software movement (fsf.org)

Code Of conduct

Privacy Policy

TL;DR: we dont collect or share your personal info, that's it lol.

We use the GNU Coding Standard Thingy, see this link.

Parts of Poke are hosted on Glitch.com since 2020.

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this software does not support "OSI" - they are terrible people - pls support the FSF/GNU (fsf.org or gnu.org) instead :3