--- title: Installation description: published: true date: 2021-05-23T16:58:48.374Z tags: editor: markdown dateCreated: 2021-02-25T11:24:06.655Z --- # Installation Compiling invidious requires at least 2GB of free RAM (We recommend to have at least 3GB installed). If you have less (e.g on a cheap VPS) you can setup a SWAP file or partition, so the combined amount is >= 3GB. After installation take a look at the [Post-install steps](#post-install-configuration). ### Note on blocking bots Allowing bots that excessively crawl (Semrush, webmeup, etc.) will lead your instance to get blocked very fast. While not required, it is a good idea to consider using bot blocking software such as [Nginx Bad Bot Blocker](https://github.com/mitchellkrogza/nginx-ultimate-bad-bot-blocker). ## Automated installation [Invidious-Updater](https://github.com/tmiland/Invidious-Updater) is a self-contained script that can automatically install and update Invidious. ## Docker > **Use of the Invidious image hosted on Docker Hub is highly discouraged.** The current maintainers no longer have access to the account and it is considered deprecated. [The image hosted on Quay](https://quay.io/repository/invidious/invidious) is recommended as an alternative. This change is reflected in the `docker-compose.yml` file used in this walkthrough. Also, unlike Docker Hub, [Quay is open source](https://github.com/quay/quay/blob/master/LICENSE). {.is-warning} Ensure [Docker Engine](https://docs.docker.com/engine/install/) and [Docker Compose](https://docs.docker.com/compose/install/) are installed before beginning. ### Make directory ```bash $ mkdir invidious ``` ### Create Docker Compose file ```bash $ cd invidious ``` ```bash $ nano docker-compose.yml ``` Here is a working Compose setup: ```docker version: "2.4" services: postgres: image: postgres:10 restart: always networks: - invidious volumes: - postgresdata:/var/lib/postgresql/data - ./config/sql:/config/sql - ./docker/init-invidious-db.sh:/docker-entrypoint-initdb.d/init-invidious-db.sh environment: POSTGRES_DB: invidious POSTGRES_USER: kemal POSTGRES_PASSWORD: kemal healthcheck: test: ["CMD-SHELL", "pg_isready -U $$POSTGRES_USER"] invidious: image: quay.io/invidious/invidious:latest restart: always networks: - invidious mem_limit: 1024M cpus: 0.5 ports: - "127.0.0.1:3000:3000" environment: INVIDIOUS_CONFIG: | channel_threads: 1 check_tables: true feed_threads: 1 db: dbname: invidious user: kemal password: kemal host: postgres port: 5432 full_refresh: false https_only: false domain: # external_port: depends_on: - postgres volumes: postgresdata: networks: invidious: ``` > The environment variable `POSTGRES_USER` cannot be changed. The SQL config files that run the initial database migrations are hard-coded with the username `kemal`. {.is-warning} ### Start Invidious ```bash $ docker-compose up ``` or ```bash $ docker-compose up -d ``` to run it in the background. Then, visit `localhost:3000` in your browser. ### Stop Invidious ```bash $ docker-compose down ``` ### Delete data ```bash $ docker volume rm invidious_postgresdata ``` ## Manual installation ### Linux #### Install crystal Follow the instructions for your distribution here: https://crystal-lang.org/install/ If you're in a hurry, here are one-liner commands for some common distributions: * Arch linux `sudo pacman -S crystal shards` * Debian/Ubuntu: `curl -fsSL https://crystal-lang.org/install.sh | sudo bash` * Fedora: `sudo brew update && sudo brew install crystal-lang` Or you can do a tarball install: ```bash cd ~/Downloads wget https://github.com/crystal-lang/crystal/releases/download/1.1.1/crystal-1.1.1-1-linux-x86_64.tar.gz cd /opt sudo tar -xzf ~/Downloads/crystal-1.1.1-1-linux-x86_64.tar.gz sudo cp /opt/crystal-1.1.1-1/bin/{crystal,shards} /usr/local/bin/ sudo cp -r /opt/crystal-1.1.1-1/lib/crystal /usr/local/lib/crystal sudo cp -r /opt/crystal-1.1.1-1/share/crystal /usr/local/share/crystal ``` #### Install the dependencies Arch Linux ```bash sudo pacman -S base-devel librsvg postgresql ``` Ubuntu or Debian ```bash sudo apt-get update sudo apt install libssl-dev libxml2-dev libyaml-dev libgmp-dev libreadline-dev postgresql librsvg2-bin libsqlite3-dev zlib1g-dev libpcre3-dev libevent-dev ``` Fedora ```bash sudo dnf install -y openssl-devel libevent-devel libxml2-devel libyaml-devel gmp-devel readline-devel postgresql librsvg2-devel sqlite-devel zlib-devel gcc ``` #### Add an Invidious user and clone the repository ```bash $ useradd -m invidious $ sudo -i -u invidious $ git clone https://github.com/iv-org/invidious $ exit ``` #### Set up PostgresSQL ```bash $ sudo systemctl enable --now postgresql $ sudo -i -u postgres $ psql -c "CREATE USER kemal WITH PASSWORD 'kemal';" # Change 'kemal' here to a stronger password, and update `password` in config/config.yml $ createdb -O kemal invidious $ psql invidious kemal < /home/invidious/invidious/config/sql/channels.sql $ psql invidious kemal < /home/invidious/invidious/config/sql/videos.sql $ psql invidious kemal < /home/invidious/invidious/config/sql/channel_videos.sql $ psql invidious kemal < /home/invidious/invidious/config/sql/users.sql $ psql invidious kemal < /home/invidious/invidious/config/sql/session_ids.sql $ psql invidious kemal < /home/invidious/invidious/config/sql/nonces.sql $ psql invidious kemal < /home/invidious/invidious/config/sql/annotations.sql $ psql invidious kemal < /home/invidious/invidious/config/sql/playlists.sql $ psql invidious kemal < /home/invidious/invidious/config/sql/playlist_videos.sql $ exit ``` #### Set up Invidious ```bash $ sudo -i -u invidious $ cd invidious $ shards update && shards install $ crystal build src/invidious.cr --release # test compiled binary $ ./invidious # stop with ctrl c $ exit ``` #### Systemd service ```bash $ sudo cp /home/invidious/invidious/invidious.service /etc/systemd/system/invidious.service $ sudo systemctl enable --now invidious.service ``` #### Logrotate ```bash $ echo "/home/invidious/invidious/invidious.log { rotate 4 weekly notifempty missingok compress minsize 1048576 }" | sudo tee /etc/logrotate.d/invidious.logrotate $ sudo chmod 0644 /etc/logrotate.d/invidious.logrotate ``` ### MacOS ```bash # Install dependencies $ brew update $ brew install shards crystal postgres imagemagick librsvg # Clone the repository and set up a PostgreSQL database $ git clone https://github.com/iv-org/invidious $ cd invidious $ brew services start postgresql $ psql -c "CREATE ROLE kemal WITH PASSWORD 'kemal';" # Change 'kemal' here to a stronger password, and update `password` in config/config.yml $ createdb -O kemal invidious $ psql invidious kemal < config/sql/channels.sql $ psql invidious kemal < config/sql/videos.sql $ psql invidious kemal < config/sql/channel_videos.sql $ psql invidious kemal < config/sql/users.sql $ psql invidious kemal < config/sql/session_ids.sql $ psql invidious kemal < config/sql/nonces.sql $ psql invidious kemal < config/sql/annotations.sql $ psql invidious kemal < config/sql/privacy.sql $ psql invidious kemal < config/sql/playlists.sql $ psql invidious kemal < config/sql/playlist_videos.sql # Set up Invidious $ shards update && shards install $ crystal build src/invidious.cr --release ``` ## Post-install configuration: Detailed configuration available in the [configuration guide](./Configuration.md). Because of various issues Invidious **must** be restarted often, at least once a day, ideally every hours. If you use a reverse proxy, you **must** configure invidious to properly serve request through it: `https_only: true` : if your are serving your instance via https, set it to true `domain: domain.ext`: if you are serving your instance via a domain name, set it here `external_port: 443`: if your are serving your instance via https, set it to 443 ## Update Invidious Instructions are available in the [updating guide](./Updating.md). ## Usage: ```bash $ ./invidious -h Usage: invidious [arguments] -b HOST, --bind HOST Host to bind (defaults to 0.0.0.0) -p PORT, --port PORT Port to listen for connections (defaults to 3000) -s, --ssl Enables SSL --ssl-key-file FILE SSL key file --ssl-cert-file FILE SSL certificate file -h, --help Shows this help -c THREADS, --channel-threads=THREADS Number of threads for refreshing channels (default: 1) -f THREADS, --feed-threads=THREADS Number of threads for refreshing feeds (default: 1) -o OUTPUT, --output=OUTPUT Redirect output (default: STDOUT) -v, --version Print version ``` Or for development: ```bash $ curl -fsSLo- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/samueleaton/sentry/master/install.cr | crystal eval $ ./sentry 🤖 Your SentryBot is vigilant. beep-boop... ```