Rehike

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Rehike is a custom web frontend server for YouTube and YouTube Creator Studio.

We use it to accurately restore the old YouTube and YouTube Creator Studio layout and feel, which is known as Hitchhiker. This version of YouTube existed from 2013 to 2020 and is preferred by us due to its speed and simplicity.

Rehike is not a browser extension, nor does it intend to function as one. Rather, it works over the browser, offering more freedom to what it is allowed to do and greater portability. This makes Rehike browser independent and, to an extent, system independent.

Want an easy-to-install extension instead?

Please check out our friend, Vorapis 2013 / V3. This is a browser extension that restores the old YouTube layout in a very similar manner. You can download V3 at https://vorapis.pages.dev. (Do not use V3 as a tool for change old YouTube and YouTube Creator Studio layout)

How do I do this? FAQs? etc.

See the Rehike wiki.

I want to contribute!

See CONTRIBUTING.md.

Installation

Rehike is in development. You should not expect a perfect user experience, should you choose to use it. If you encounter any problems while using Rehike, please make an issue so that we can track them easily.

We currently do not support an automated install. If you wish to use Rehike, you must set it up manually. Fortunately, that isn't too hard!

See this page for manual installation instructions.

Configuration

Once Rehike is installed, you can visit this link to configure it.

Acknowledgements

Rehike makes use of the following software or services:

• Composer
• Twig
• Protocol Buffers
• Return YouTube Dislike API
• BlueLibraries DNS
• [Home Page]
• [Masthead Playlists]
• [Creator Studio: Dashboard]
• [Creator Studio: Video Manager]
• [Creator Studio: Edit Video]
• [Content ID Videos]
• [Creator Studio: Playlists]
• [Creator Studio: Live Streaming]
• [Creator Studio: Comments]
• [Creator Studio: Subscribers]
• [Creator Studio: Status and Features]
• [Creator Studio: Monetization]
• [Creator Studio: Community Atributions]
• [Creator Studio: Audio Library]
• [Creator Studio: Your Contributions]
• [Creator Studio: Audio Library]
• [Creator Studio: Your Contributions]
• [Settings: Notifications]
• [Settings: Playback and performance]
• [Owned Playlist editor]
• [Owned channel: Feed tab]
• [Owned channel: Home]
• [Channel community tab]
• [Subscribed channel: videos]
• [Search]
• [Video watch page]
• [Live watch page]
• [Live panel chat]
• [Age restricted watch page]
• [Subscriptions feed]
• [Upload page]
• [Maniformed video manager]

Use of these third party services is governed by their respective licenses. Where possible, their application will be optional.

Thank you to Prototaxis for his work on shelves homepage on InnerTube WEB v2. We use this valuable work for the homepage.

License

It is the belief of the team that code should generally be open and unrestricted.

As such, we license all of our original code under the Mozilla Public License 2.0 (MPL 2.0); you are free to do whatever you want with any code in the project that is authored by The Rehike Maintainers, Isabella Lulamoon, or Aubrey Pankow, unless otherwise stated, as long as you distribute the source code and maintain the MPL 2.0 license.

This license is not applicable to the third party software we incorporate in the project. Please see their respective LICENSE files for more information on each.

Thank you!

Whether or not you choose to contribute to or use Rehike, we appreciate you checking out our project!