Thanks, I’ll take a look!
At best, it’s exactly what I want, at worst, it can help me learn how to use the API by studying its code.
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i have one doubt, is the setup proxy from freetube like tor optional and disabled by default ? i might give freetube a try
There is no proxy in freetube that I have seen. It either gets the data directly from youtube or from an invidious instance of your choosing. In settings, you pick which of these options you prefer.
The default is to get the data directly from youtube.
Here is the description from freetube about how it works:
FreeTube will make a connection to YouTube.com and various YouTube domains to serve data, images, and videos. This information is scraped from the site without running any JavaScript from the domains which prevents the usual tracking from these domains. We can’t guarentee that these domains aren’t tracking you in any way though we do our best to limit this as much as possible.
FreeTube has the option to connect to an instance running Invidious. A list of public instances can be found at https://instances.invidio.us/. Using FreeTube with an Invidious instance makes you subject to their privacy policy. An example Invidious privacy policy can be found at https://invidious.snopyta.org/privacy though different instances may have different privacy policies. Always ask the maintainer of that instance for an up to date privacy policy when needed. Using Invidious prevents a majority of the calls needed to YouTube and can potentially give you an increase in privacy. Invidious can also optionally proxy a video through the instance, further decreasing direct connections to YouTube. Using an Invidious instance along with video proxies can be enabled through the settings page within FreeTube.
FreeTube will make a connection to GitHub.com to check for updates and to provide changelog notes to the application. This can be disabled within the settings page.
FreeTube will make a connection to https://freetube.writeas.com/ to check for new blog posts and to link them within the app. This can be disabled within the settings page.
FreeTube has the option to use Sponsorblock (https://sponsor.ajay.app) within the application. When enabled, FreeTube will make a connection to a Sponsorblock instance of your choice and send along a hash of the video ID of the video that you are watching in order to obtain information regarding where sponsor segments are within a video. Using Sponsorblock within FreeTube subjects you to the SponsorBlock privacy policy. This feature is disabled by default and will not send any information to a Sponsorblock server without your permission.
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OK, correction. The proxy is disabled by default. 
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