YourPipe

YouTube client for OpenHarmony / HarmonyOS

Unofficial client. Not affiliated with YouTube or Google.

YourPipe is a YouTube client for OpenHarmony / HarmonyOS. It extracts streams in-app and plays them through a native MPV pipeline (vendored libmpv + FFmpeg), not a WebView player.

Guest VOD uses direct-link DASH through the visionos endpoint into MPV by default; signed-in playback defaults to the SABR dual-track local proxy (mweb). Playback is MPV only: the libmpv_napi module is a NAPI bridge over a vendored libmpv.so, originally derived from libmdk-napi (historical mdk names exist only in old commits).

• Home feed, search, channels, and playlists
• Subscriptions and favorites
• Native MPV playback (quality / codec options, PiP where supported)
• Background audio via continuous task + AV session
• Offline downloads into the local library
• Cookie (WebView) login and device QR (OAuth) login
• HTTP proxy settings
• Multi-provider translation (gtx / Google Cloud / MyMemory / Lingva / LibreTranslate / DeepL / LLM / custom)
• Live chat (read-only) on live videos
• Light / dark / system appearance and multiple UI locales
• Local library: downloads, imported files, watch history, playlists

Main tabs: Home · Subscriptions · Favorites · Local. Search and Options open as separate pages/sheets.

entry  →  mediaservice  →  youtube_core
  │              └────→  @yourpipe/libmpv-napi  (MPV bridge)
  └──────────→  youtube_core

arm64-v8a is the product playback ABI. x86_64 builds use a player stub (UI only).

• DevEco Studio with HarmonyOS SDK 6.1.0(23)
• Device or emulator (phone / tablet / 2in1 / tv / car)
• Real video playback needs an arm64-v8a device

1. Clone the repository:

   git clone https://github.com/Ember5843/YourPipe.git
   cd YourPipe

2. Open the project root in DevEco Studio and sync ohpm dependencies. build-profile.json5 is git-ignored (machine-local) — copy it from the committed template first: cp build-profile.template.json5 build-profile.json5.

3. Configure signing under File → Project Structure → Signing Configs (writes into your local, git-ignored build-profile.json5). Never commit keystores, passwords, profiles, or certificates.

4. Optional: if you use AppGallery Connect, put the AGC services config under
   entry/src/main/resources/rawfile/ (that file is git-ignored).

5. Select a device and Run from DevEco.

• Cookie login (WebView) and device QR (OAuth) are supported for personalization and restricted content.
• Device OAuth constants may mirror publicly documented community client values; treat them as community POC material, not YourPipe-owned credentials.

Behavior and naming draw on these open projects (not alternate runtimes inside this app):

GPL-3.0. See LICENSE.

Portions and ideas reference NewPipe, NewPipe Extractor, PipePipe, MPV, and related work. Respect their licenses when redistributing.