Installing invidious with docker on Ubuntu

June 14, 2023

about the project

Invidious is an open-source alternative front-end to YouTube.

Privacy focused
Ethically designed
No Ads
Developer API
Multilingual
No need of an Youtube Account

Visit the project

installation steps

generate a password for your postgresql.

openssl rand -hex 15

create the directory

mkdir -p /opt/invidious/data/postgresql
cd /opt/invidious/

clone the project

git clone https://github.com/iv-org/invidious.git docker
cd docker

configure your installation

vim docker-compose.yml

content

version: "3"
services:

  invidious:
    image: quay.io/invidious/invidious:latest
    restart: unless-stopped
    ports:
      - "3000:3000"
    environment:
      INVIDIOUS_CONFIG: |
        db:
          dbname: invidious
          user: kemal
          password: your_postgresql_password_here
          host: invidious-db
          port: 5432
        check_tables: true
    healthcheck:
      test: wget -nv --tries=1 --spider http://127.0.0.1:3000/api/v1/comments/jNQXAC9IVRw || exit 1
      interval: 30s
      timeout: 5s
      retries: 2
    logging:
      options:
        max-size: "1G"
        max-file: "4"
    depends_on:
      - invidious-db

  invidious-db:
    image: docker.io/library/postgres:14
    restart: unless-stopped
    volumes:
      - postgresdata:/var/lib/postgresql/data
      - ./config/sql:/config/sql
      - ./docker/init-invidious-db.sh:/docker-entrypoint-initdb.d/init-invidious-db.sh
    environment:
      POSTGRES_DB: invidious
      POSTGRES_USER: kemal
      POSTGRES_PASSWORD: your_postgresql_password_here
    healthcheck:
      test: ["CMD-SHELL", "pg_isready -U $$POSTGRES_USER -d $$POSTGRES_DB"]

volumes:
  postgresql:
    driver_opts:
      type: none
      device: /opt/invidious/data/postgresql
      o: bind

start your invidious

docker-compose up -d

visit your instance

https://your_docker_host_ip:3000

nginx configuration example

server {
    listen your_listen_ip_here:80;
    server_name tube.bolha.tools;
    location / {
        return 301 https://tube.bolha.tools$request_uri;
    }
}

server {
    listen your_listen_ip_here:443 ssl http2;
    server_name tube.bolha.tools;

    ssl_certificate /etc/letsencrypt/live/bolha.tools/fullchain.pem;
    ssl_certificate_key /etc/letsencrypt/live/bolha.tools/privkey.pem;

    access_log /var/log/nginx/tube-bolha-tools-access.log;
    error_log /var/log/nginx/tube-bolha-tools-error.log;

    location / {
        proxy_pass http://your_invidious_ip_here:your_port_here;
        proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $remote_addr;
        proxy_set_header Host $host;    # so Invidious knows domain
        proxy_http_version 1.1;     # to keep alive
        proxy_set_header Connection ""; # to keep alive
    }

}

Enjoy!