Kodi Youtube addon stopped working (RPI4 and LibreELEC distro) and a DDG search advises me to create a personal API key.
Youtube acess not configured, youtube data api has not been...
For privacy reasons I don't have a Google account.
Is there a workaround to get Youtube videos without Google account into Kodi?
For example on Android, brilliant NewPipe client still working without the need for an account and without ads.
I don't know anything about Kodi, but you can get YouTube videos without allowing Google to sniff your privates:
sudo apt-get install youtube-dl
I've found youtube-dl to work well for my purposes, and it's actively maintained. Also on GitHub
@Hagbard informed me that youtube-dl has been "taken down" through the DMCA. The good news is that while it's no longer available from GitHub, it's still available through the usual source. According to this article at Hackaday, the community has rallied which may lead to wider distribution of youtube-dl.
The GitHub ytdl repository is available again per LWN. Here's the change, and some comments...
In retrospect, the entire takedown affair now seems bizarre... do the RIAA lawyers know how GitHub works? Do they understand the change can simply be reverted?
For privacy reasons I don't have a Google account.
Having an account only becomes a privacy issue if you fill it with sensitive information. Nothing prevents you from registering an account you will be using only with Kodi and nothing else. You don't have to use your real name when registering it.
You'll have to make sure it is not possible to associate the anonymous account with you personally by analyzing that account's activity, however, that's very unlikely to happen if you don't have a personal Google account to begin with. Were that not the case, it would be possible to associate the anonymous account with your personal account if the data on the two accounts (search requests, watch history, subscriptions, etc.) correlates closely.
Just avoid putting personal information in search requests and comments you leave with the anonymous account and you'll be fine.
