invidi.link

Convert YouTube URLs to working Invidious instance links. Mobile-first, single-file vanilla JS — no build step, no dependencies.

In the wild: https://invidi.link/

How it works

• Paste a YouTube URL (watch?v=, youtu.be/, /shorts/, /embed/, /live/) or any Invidious-style URL — the host is swapped, path and query preserved.
• The instance list comes from the official monitor data at api.invidious.io/instances.json, fetched once per session (cached in sessionStorage) and filtered to HTTPS instances that are up with ≥90% uptime. Yggdrasil-only hosts are excluded.
• Copy button per result, Go random to redirect to a random healthy instance, Refresh instances to force a re-fetch.
• Pre-populate with ?url=: https://invidi.link/?url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRXJXaLV0n4

Privacy

GPL-3.0 licensed. No third-party trackers; no URL data is sent anywhere except the public instance API (which never sees your video URL — only your IP fetching the instance list).

Deploy

Static file. index.html is the entire app — the served file is the source.

Deploy from mesh9: fetch the repo at main/master, rsync (minus .git) into /var/www/invidi.link/ on Gaudi as deploy, then verify https://invidi.link/ returns 200. Use the shared mesh9 deploy script (deploy-static-site.sh) — no GitHub-held SSH keys, no Actions.