deprecate support for external video playback proxy

README.md

@@ -37,16 +37,6 @@ https://git.nadeko.net/Fijxu/-/packages/container/invidious/latest
 
 - [Removal of materialized views on PostgreSQL](github.com/iv-org/invidious/pull/2469): If you don't have this on your Invidious public instance, your SSD will suffer and it will catch on fire https://github.com/iv-org/invidious/pull/2469#issuecomment-2012623454
 
-- External video playback proxy: Let's you use an external video playback proxy like https://git.nadeko.net/Fijxu/http3-ytproxy or https://github.com/TeamPiped/piped-proxy instead of the one that is bundled with Invidious. It's useful if you are proxying video and your throughput is not low. I did this to distribute the traffic across different servers. If you are selfhosting only for a few amount of people, this is not really useful for you.
-
-	It can be set using this on `config.yml`:
-	```yaml
-	external_videoplayback_proxy: "https://inv-proxy.example.com"
-	```
-
-	> [!NOTE]
-	> If you setup this, Invidious will check if the proxy is alive doing a request to `https://inv-proxy.example.com/health`, and if it doesn't get a response code of 200, Invidious will fallback to the local videoplayback proxy! This is only currently supported by https://git.nadeko.net/Fijxu/http3-ytproxy
-
 - Limit the DASH resolution sent to the clients: It can be set using `max_dash_resolution` on the config. Example: `max_dash_resolution: 1080`
 
 - [Limit requests made to Youtube API when pulling subscriptions (feeds)](https://git.nadeko.net/Fijxu/invidious/commit/df94f1c0b82d95846574487231ea251530838ef0): Due to the recent changes of Youtube ("This helps protect out community", "Sign in to confirm you are not a bot"), subscriptions now have limited information, this is because Invidious by default, makes a video request to youtube to be able to get more information about the video, like `length_seconds`, `live_now`, `premiere_timestamp`, and `views`. If you have a lot of users with a ton of subscriptions, Invidious will basically spam youtube API all the time, resulting in a block from youtube.

src/invidious.cr

@@ -210,14 +210,6 @@ Invidious::Jobs.register Invidious::Jobs::ClearExpiredItemsJob.new
 
 Invidious::Jobs.register Invidious::Jobs::InstanceListRefreshJob.new
 
-if !CONFIG.external_videoplayback_proxy.empty?
-  Invidious::Jobs.register Invidious::Jobs::CheckExternalProxy.new
-else
-  # Invidious will it's own videoplayback proxy unless the admin decides to rewrite
-  # the /videoplayback location in the reverse proxy configuration (NGINX, Caddy, etc)
-  LOGGER.info("jobs: Disabling CheckExternalProxy job. Invidious will it's own videoplayback proxy")
-end
-
 if !CONFIG.tokens_server.empty?
   Invidious::Jobs.register Invidious::Jobs::RefreshSessionTokens.new
 else

src/invidious/config.cr

@@ -215,10 +215,6 @@ class Config
   # of the backend
   property backends_delimiter : String = "|"
 
-  # External videoplayback proxies list. They should include `https://`
-  # at the start of the URI
-  property external_videoplayback_proxy : Array(String) = [] of String
-
   property pubsub_domain : String = ""
 
   property server_id_cookie_name : String = "INVIDIOUS_SERVER_ID"

src/invidious/http_server/utils.cr

@@ -4,30 +4,6 @@ module Invidious::HttpServer
   module Utils
     extend self
 
-    @@proxy_alive : String = ""
-
-    def check_external_proxy
-      CONFIG.external_videoplayback_proxy.each do |proxy|
-        begin
-          response = HTTP::Client.get("#{proxy}/health")
-          if response.status_code == 200
-            @@proxy_alive = proxy
-            LOGGER.debug("CheckExternalProxy: Proxy set to: '#{proxy}'")
-            break
-          end
-        rescue
-          LOGGER.debug("CheckExternalProxy: Proxy '#{proxy}' is not available")
-        end
-      end
-      if @@proxy_alive.empty?
-        LOGGER.warn("CheckExternalProxy: No proxies alive! Using own server proxy")
-      end
-    end
-
-    def get_external_proxy
-      return @@proxy_alive
-    end
-
     def proxy_video_url(raw_url : String, *, region : String? = nil, absolute : Bool = false)
       url = URI.parse(raw_url)
 
@@ -38,11 +14,7 @@ module Invidious::HttpServer
       url.query_params = params
 
       if absolute
-        if !@@proxy_alive.empty?
+        return "#{HOST_URL}#{url.request_target}"
-          return "#{@@proxy_alive}#{url.request_target}"
-        else
-          return "#{HOST_URL}#{url.request_target}"
-        end
       else
         return url.request_target
       end

src/invidious/jobs/check_external_proxy.cr

@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
-class Invidious::Jobs::CheckExternalProxy < Invidious::Jobs::BaseJob
-  def initialize
-  end
-
-  def begin
-    loop do
-      HttpServer::Utils.check_external_proxy
-      LOGGER.info("CheckExternalProxy: Done, sleeping for 10 seconds")
-      sleep 10.seconds
-      Fiber.yield
-    end
-  end
-end

src/invidious/routes/api/manifest.cr

@@ -222,19 +222,13 @@ module Invidious::Routes::API::Manifest
 
         raw_params["host"] = uri.host.not_nil!
 
-        proxy = Invidious::HttpServer::Utils.get_external_proxy
-
         if CONFIG.https_only
           scheme = "https://"
         else
           scheme = "http://"
         end
 
-        if !proxy.empty?
+        "#{scheme}#{env.request.headers["Host"]}/videoplayback?#{raw_params}"
-          "#{proxy}/videoplayback?#{raw_params}"
-        else
-          "#{scheme}#{env.request.headers["Host"]}/videoplayback?#{raw_params}"
-        end
       end
     end
 

src/invidious/routes/before_all.cr

@@ -53,13 +53,6 @@ module Invidious::Routes::BeforeAll
       extra_media_csp, extra_connect_csp = BackendInfo.get_csp(env.get("current_companion").as(Int32))
     end
 
-    if !CONFIG.external_videoplayback_proxy.empty?
-      CONFIG.external_videoplayback_proxy.each do |proxy|
-        extra_media_csp += " #{proxy}"
-        extra_connect_csp += " #{proxy}"
-      end
-    end
-
     # Allow media resources to be loaded from google servers
     # TODO: check if *.youtube.com can be removed
     if CONFIG.disabled?("local") || !preferences.local

src/invidious/routes/video_playback.cr

@@ -313,16 +313,7 @@ module Invidious::Routes::VideoPlayback
     end
 
     if local
-      external_proxy = Invidious::HttpServer::Utils.get_external_proxy
+      url = URI.parse(url).request_target.not_nil!
-      if !external_proxy.empty?
-        url = URI.parse(url)
-        external_proxy = URI.parse(external_proxy)
-        url.host = external_proxy.host
-        url.port = external_proxy.port
-        url = url.to_s
-      else
-        url = URI.parse(url).request_target.not_nil!
-      end
       url += "&title=#{URI.encode_www_form(title, space_to_plus: false)}" if title
     end
 

src/invidious/views/template.ecr

@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 <%
 	locale = env.get("preferences").as(Preferences).locale
 	dark_mode = env.get("preferences").as(Preferences).dark_mode
-    current_external_videoplayback_proxy = Invidious::HttpServer::Utils.get_external_proxy()
 %>
 <!DOCTYPE html>
 <html lang="<%= locale %>">
@@ -336,9 +335,6 @@
 				current_backend = env.get?("current_companion").try &.as(Int32)
 			%>
 			<div class="box">You are currently using Backend: <%= current_backend ? CONFIG.invidious_companion[current_backend].public_url : "Unable to get backend, this is bug, please report it!" %></div>
-			<% end %>
-			<% if !current_external_videoplayback_proxy.empty? %>
-			<div class="box">External Videoplayback Proxy: <%= current_external_videoplayback_proxy %></div>
 			<% end %>
 				<span class="left">
 					<% if CONFIG.modified_source_code_url %>