tubo - A libre streaming front-end for the web

Tubo is a streaming front-end focused on bringing the NewPipe experience to the web. It aims at providing a clean and simple user interface to consume media from your favorite streaming platforms. It currently supports the same services as NewPipe, including YouTube, SoundCloud, Bandcamp, and more.

Features

No ads
Background player
Playback queue
User playlists
System/Light/Dark themes

Installation

Packaging

Uberjar

To bundle the whole project into a self-contained uber-jar you need to follow these build steps:

npm i
npm run build
clojure -T:frontend:build uberjar

After the last command is completed, you'll get a path to the uber-jar, which you can run like this:

java -jar target/tubo-<VERSION>.jar

Docker

For Docker, there's an image available in Docker Hub you can use:

docker pull migalmoreno/tubo
docker run --publish 3000:3000 -d --name tubo migalmoreno/tubo:latest

There's also a Docker Compose file available which you can run like this:

docker compose up -d

Reverse Proxy

If you want to self-host Tubo and make it publicly accessible you'll need to set up a reverse proxy. The following shows some example configurations for various web servers:

Nginx

server {
    listen 443 ssl http2;
    server_name <TUBO_HOST>;
    ssl_certificate /etc/letsencrypt/live/<TUBO_HOST>/fullchain.pem;
    ssl_certificate_key /etc/letsencrypt/live/<TUBO_HOST>/privkey.pem;

    location / {
        proxy_pass http://localhost:3000;
        proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $remote_addr;
        proxy_set_header HOST $http_host;
    }
}

Public Instances

URL	Country
https://tubo.media (Official)	🇪🇸
https://tubo.reallyaweso.me	🇩🇪
https://tubo.ducks.party	🇩🇪

Browser Extension Support

Redirector

You can manually add any redirect rule based on regex patterns with this extension. Below are some sample configurations to redirect links from supported services to Tubo so you get a basic idea of how to write manual Redirector rules. Note the serviceId of each service is: YouTube (0), SoundCloud(1), media.ccc.de(2), PeerTube(3), and Bandcamp(4).

Description: YouTube video to Tubo stream
Example URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YE7VzlLtp-4
Include pattern: ^((?:https?://)(?:www.)?youtube.com/(watch\?v.*|shorts/.*))
Redirect to: https://<TUBO_HOST>/stream?url=$1
Example result: https://<TUBO_HOST>/stream?url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YE7VzlLtp-4
Pattern type: Regular Expression
Apply to: Main window (address bar)

Description: SoundCloud stream to Tubo stream
Example URL: https://soundcloud.com/unfa/stop-the-panic
Include pattern: ^((?:https?://)(?:www.)?soundcloud.com/.*/.*)
Redirect to: https://<TUBO_HOST>/stream?url=$1
Example result: https://<TUBO_HOST>/stream?url=https://soundcloud.com/unfa/stop-the-panic
Pattern type: Regular Expression
Apply to: Main window (address bar)

Description: Bandcamp album to Tubo playlist
Example URL: https://unfa.bandcamp.com/album/suppressed
Include pattern: ^((?:https?://)(.*\.)?bandcamp.com/album/.*)
Redirect to: https://<TUBO_HOST>/playlist?url=$1
Example result: https://<TUBO_HOST>/playlist?url=https://unfa.bandcamp.com/album/suppressed
Pattern type: Regular Expression
Apply to: Main window (address bar)

Description: PeerTube (Framatube) channel to Tubo channel
Example URL: https://framatube.org/accounts/framasoft@framatube.org
Include pattern: ^((?:https?://)(?:www.)?framatube.org/accounts/.*)
Redirect to: https://<TUBO_HOST>/channel?url=$1
Example result: https://<TUBO_HOST>/channel?url=https://framatube.org/accounts/framasoft@framatube.org
Pattern type: Regular Expression
Apply to: Main window (address bar)

Description: media.ccc.de search query to Tubo search query
Example URL: https://media.ccc.de/search/?q=37c3
Include pattern: ^(?:https?://)media.ccc.de/search/\?q=(.*)
Redirect to: https://<TUBO_HOST>/search?query=$1&serviceId=2
Example result: https://<TUBO_HOST>/search?query=37c3&serviceId=2
Pattern type: Regular Expression
Apply to: Main window (address bar)