librarian

README

# librarian An alternative frontend for LBRY/Odysee. Inspired by [Invidious](https://github.com/iv-org/invidious).

Features

User features

• Lightweight
• No ads
• No tracking
• No crypto garbage

Technical features

• Copylefted libre software under the AGPL
• No Code of Conduct
• No Contributor License Agreement or Developer Certificate of Origin

Demo

Video
Channel

Instances

Open an issue to have your instance listed here!

Website	Country	Cloudflare
lbry.bcow.xyz (official)	🇨🇦 CA
lbry.itzzen.net	🇺🇸 US
odysee.076.ne.jp (edited source code)	🇯🇵 JP
librarian.davidovski.xyz	🇬🇧 UK
lbry.ix.tc	🇬🇧 UK
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Install

Librarian can run on any platform Go compiles on, memory usage varies on instance usage due to caching.

Librarian is still in beta and changes frequently, building the latest version from source is recommended.

Requirements

• Go v1.16 or later

Build from source

For more detailed instructions, follow the guide.

Clone the repository and cd into it.

git clone https://codeberg.org/librarian/librarian
cd librarian

Build Librarian.

go build .

Edit the config file using your preferred editor.

cp config.example.yml config.yml
nvim config.yml

You can now run Librarian.

./librarian

go install

You can install Librarian using Go.

go install codeberg.org/librarian/librarian@latest

Edit the config file using your preferred editor.

cp config.example.yml config.yml
nvim config.yml

You can now run Librarian.

librarian # If GOBIN is in your PATH
$HOME/go/bin/librarian # If GOBIN is not in PATH

Docker

Install Docker and docker-compose, then clone this repository.

git clone https://codeberg.org/librarian/librarian
cd librarian

Edit the config file using your preferred editor.

cp config.example.yml config.yml
nvim config.yml

You can now run Librarian.

sudo docker-compose up -d