Common Issues

Video thumbnails not working

If the invidious isn't configured properly, thumbnails won't display and video can't be played.

First, check that your invidious instance is set up properly by opening a browser and opening the following url:

 https://<your_instance_url>/api/v1/videos/SurUidVDQf4

Find the "videoThumbnails" field. It should look similar to this:

 "videoThumbnails": [
        {
            "quality": "maxres",
            "url": "https://<your_instance_url>/vi/SurUidVDQf4/maxres.jpg",
            "width": 1280,
            "height": 720
        },

 ...

If the url is not a full url, there is an issue with your instance configuration. For it to work properly, make sure that the following two invidious parameters are set properly. Here's what expected:

# The external port is the port you use to access the instance via your web browser.
# If you don't specify a port in your browser set it to 80 if you use http or 443 if you use https
external_port: 443
# the domain name of your invidious instance, if you usually just use the ip address of your server, that would work to.
domain: mydomainname.com  

Can't subscribe to channel, add video to a playlist and similar issues

If you logged in using the token method, there might be an issue with the permissions you got from your invidious server (see opened issue on invidious) that might cause problems. To fix this, there are two ways:

• You need to be logged in to your invidious instance on the web browser before triggering the logging in via token
• Log in using the cookie method