[Feature Request] save your playlists, subscriptions and settings in the cloud

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I'm not sure if this goes a bit against the policy of Newpipe, but I think it would be a very good idea to make a server in the style "firefox-sync" in which you can register and store your data there to be able to synchronize them more easily in other phones, tablets and AmazonTvs. maybe even this idea works also for when Newpipe is ported to computers

[theScrabi]

Well im currently working with ownCloud on their android app, lets se what the future will bring ;D

great, I'll wait for news 😬

[gabriellluz]

My suggestion is to integrate Google Drive and OneDrive so that NewPipe syncs subscriptions, history in an encrypted file so that we can access it anywhere. Right now I use OneDrive but I have download it and upload once a week. It's kinda boring

[theScrabi]

Well an idea would be some sort of intent interface for the owncloud app, so newpipe could trigger it to sync its database. I'm just not sure if ownCloud would like that 😅

[gabriellluz]

It'd be like an OwnCloud app or extension? something like that? it would be cool BUT I don't use Owncloud anymore because they collect your data. So your best best is to create an encrypted file (end to end). Otherwise, OwnCloud exposes our data so that NSA can create a simple tunnel/scraper in order to grab our data. They do it currently with GMail, Outlook, GDrive and so many other providers according to Edward Snowden. There's a book I read about it.

[theScrabi]

@gabriellluz I am not going to discuss anything regarding ownCloud here at the NewPipe project. But if you have doubts or questions feel free to ask over at owncloud central or write me a mail.

[trymeouteh]

I would love this feature since I would not have to worry about losing data if my phone is stolen, lost or stops working since it will constantly sync itself to a cloud and everytime I add a subscription, a bookmark or create a playlists it will be backed up.

Same goes for my Tablet. I would like to have my bookmarks and subscriptions synced between them for easy use instead of having to export and import the data all the time.

The only issue with cloud syncing is there are so many providers and I find that not many are using WebDav and others like myself have their own trusted cloud providers since many cloud providers are not privacy friendly like Google Drive, OneDrive, etc.

Some people host their own NAS and use ownCloud or NextCloud but not everyone has this nor wants this setup for privacy. I personally like using MEGA and Sync.com. But to ensure privacy and to also ensure everyone gets to choose their favorite cloud with ease I think the following needs to be done especially for cloud storage providers that do not support webdav.

-File
Files are the easiest way to contain data and have then sync to various clouds. Every cloud storage system supports files and many cloud storage apps support syncing files from a directory on a device to the cloud. And even if your cloud storage provider does not do this there are apps that do just this. Maybe users want to use Syncthing and this will make things easy. But for the file to work the user must choose where on the device the file is stored and the name of the file

-Files
Same as the suggestion above except you do not sync the entire file between the cloud and devices since a file can get large overtime take longer and longer to sync. Instead you sync files with updates that say (Unsubscribe from PewDiePie 20181020-204455) or (Subscribed to Halo 20181020-204500) and when another device recieves the file it will do as it says and keep the file for sometime.

-Encryption
This can be optional but the file can have a password set to it so to access it in NewPipe you must enter the password to read/write to the file. This is needed for those who use non-private cloud storage systems so the cloud storage provider cannot read the NewPipe data nor can any eavesdroppers see what the data is when being send to/from the cloud.

Personally I would prefer to use MEGA with an encrypted file since MEGA is pretty good on privacy but if someone does get my NewPipe file they cannot see my bookmarks and my subscriptions.

The reason to keep NewPipe data private and secure is because YouTube and your bookmarks, subscriptions could tell a lot about you just like a years worth of search results. NewPipe is designed with privacy in mind since it does not use a Google Account but NewPipe.

That is my opinion on syncing data to a cloud or between devices. This method above I have explained can allow NewPipe to support many cloud storage provides webdav or not webdav, self hosting, payed cloud storage, syncthing, etc. There are so many cloud storage providers and ways people like to manage their data and it will be a daunting tasks to add support to every cloud storage provider and every self hosting method.

[kroeliebuschie]

here's an idea: newpipe automatically makes a local history/subscription backup in a certain directory, you install the nextcloud app and select this dir. for autouploading. This keeps the 2 apps separated. You could a description of the process in the settings menu under something like "cloud backup"

[steveej]

here's an idea: newpipe automatically makes a local history/subscription backup in a certain directory, you install the nextcloud app and select this dir. for autouploading. This keeps the 2 apps separated. You could a description of the process in the settings menu under something like "cloud backup"

I second this simple solution! Pair that with an auto-import setting and make them mutually exclusive to avoid conflicts.

[Richard-Payne]

Any news or progress on this? Cloud sync (NextCloud would be my preference) is the major reason why I don't use NewPipe atm.

[theScrabi]

1. Not yet, but if so we would need to find a way to sync with any cloud system. Maybe this was possible with SAF, but for that we first need to switch to SAF with saving/restoring the database.
2. Since this discussion was started before Invidio.us came on the plan. Now maybe we should build a backend to invidio.us instead. This would even be better as syncing events like "watched this video" is better than scncing the whole db, because what would you do if you produced a colission? @omarroth is there a REST API for invidio.us to which we could connect to and sync account data with?