documentation/Configuration.md

What can be configured and what are these configuration options?

The configuration file is located at invidious/config/config.yml.

channel_threads (default 1) Number of threads to use for crawling videos from channels (for updating subscriptions)

feed_threads (default 1) Number of threads to use for updating feeds (RSS Feeds)

db:
  user: kemal # your database user
  password: kemal # your database password
  host: localhost # database host
  port: 5432 # postgres port

full_refresh (default false) Used for crawling channels: threads should check all videos uploaded by a channel

https_only (default false) Used to tell Invidious it is accessed via https, set to true if you have for example a reverse proxy with a ssl certificate

domain (default nil) You should specify the domain you publish your Invidious instance here

hmac_key (default nil) Signing key for CSRF tokens and pubsub (randomly generated on startup, should be random string)

use_pubsub_feeds (default false) Support server-side notifications from YouTube using PubSubHubbub. Requires domain and hmac_key to be set

default_home (default "Top") Default home page

feed_menu (default ["Popular", "Top", "Trending", "Subscriptions"]) Order of tabs on feed menu

top_enabled (default true) Whether top endpoints should be enabled (better for smaller instances)

captcha_enabled (default true) Determine if CAPTCHA should be required for login/registration

login_enabled (default true) Whether users should be able to login

registration_enabled (default true) Whether new users should be able to register

statistics_enabled (default false) Whether statistics should be available from /api/v1/stats

admins (default []) List of user IDs that have access to administrator preferences

external_port (default nil) Invidious should supply links to a different port (if running behind a proxy, for example). PubSub notifications (if enabled) will also be sent to this port

default_user_preferences (defaultConfigPreferences) Default preferences to use for new and unregistered users, see #415

dmca_content (default []) For compliance with DMCA requests, disables download widget for list of video IDs

check_tables (default false) Check table integrity, automatically try to add any missing columns, create columns, etc.

cache_annotations (default false) Cache annotations requested from IA, will not cache empty annotations or annotations that only contain cards

banner (default nil) Optional banner to be displayed along top of page for announcements, etc.