Update Invidious and Piped instances

[opusforlife2]

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Feature description

It's been a long time since the list of instances in the manifest was updated. The list has changed a lot since then.

Why do you want this feature?

New instances can be used with Newpipe.

Additional information

Should old instances be deleted from the list? I was wondering about this. Users might come across links to now-defunct instances. I see no issue with these links opening in Newpipe, since the domain is discarded, anyway.

So maybe the list should contain all previous and current instances for maximum link compatibility.

[markusgerber76]

Where is the UI for piped? How does one add a piped instance?

[triallax]

@markusgerber76 are you interested in fixing this issue? If so, I'll assign you to it.

To answer your question, here's the Piped repo, and here's the instances list. Piped instances are added to app/src/main/AndroidManifest.xml and also in the extractor. See #6557 and TeamNewPipe/NewPipeExtractor#668 for an example of how this is done.

Should old instances be deleted from the list? I was wondering about this. Users might come across links to now-defunct instances. I see no issue with these links opening in Newpipe, since the domain is discarded, anyway.

So maybe the list should contain all previous and current instances for maximum link compatibility.

I agree with everything you say.

[litetex]

I wouldn't recommend updating the list:

1. There is currently work done on Add Invidious support #8220
2. We shouldn't use a hardcoded list of instances, because it's impossible to keep up with updating ;)

[triallax]

here is currently work done on #8220

We don't know when that might be merged. Also, it doesn't apply to Piped instances.

We shouldn't use a hardcoded list of instances, because it's impossible to keep up with updating ;)

What do you propose then?

[litetex]

I think we should fix this in the long run by doing 2 things:

1. Support Intent interception for all links #7456 - This fixes the hardcoded entries inside the Android manifest file
2. Keep a user-editable list of known instances (Noted that already inside Add Invidious support #8220 - but we may also open a new issue) - This fixes the hardcoded entries inside the NewPipe extractor

Maybe in the short term we can update them but that's definitely not a future proof solution.

[opusforlife2]

Isn't intent handling extremely limited Android 12 onwards?

[opusforlife2]

We can probably copy a list of the latest working instances off of Libredirect.