Invidious and shared Youtu.be links

[hermann-san]

Hi,
When I receive a shared youtu.be link , like https://youtu.be/tI8rlHo832g
It won't be properly redirected to the video via Invidious instances / frontend.
The video won't open, but instead the link get's redirected to the popular youtube feed
It would be great if you could have a look into this.
Thanks.

[IkelAtomig]

Seems to be working fine for me.

[hermann-san]

So it seems to be an issue with the invidious instances that I've tried.

some random instances I've tried just now :

worked
https://inv.zzls.xyz
https://invidious.privacydev.net
https://invidious.slipfox.xyz

didn't work
https://inv.bp.projectsegfau.lt
https://invidious.tiekoetter.com
https://invidious.lunar.icu/
https://inv.pistasjis.net
https://iv.melmac.space/
https://invidious.no-logs.com
https://inv.bp.projectsegfau.lt
https://yewtu.be/
https://invidious.tiekoetter.com

Could this be an issue with individual Invidious instances and do you have an idea what it could be?

[ManeraKai]

It's probably bc of instances not on the latest version. We can't fetch more information from a shortened link it's invidious' problem.

[schklom]

For what it is worth, I just tried https://invidious.privacydev.net and it does not redirect correctly. I also tried with my private instance using the latest Docker image, and it does not work either.

[hermann-san]

There is this issue here that indicates a possible bug in Invidiuos.
iv-org/invidious#3933

[rezad1393]

could this be worked around in the addon until invidious fixes it?

for example addon can redirect https://youtu.be/BiiPDwCbzbM to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiiPDwCbzbM.
or just add the watch?v= for now to the invidious url ?

[rezad1393]

https://youtube.com/live/ZPnlpbymGZc
these videos are also not correctly redirected.

these issues causes a lot of pain for user of invidious and maybe a temporary workaround here would help.
for example converting all these link, in the addon process, to the /watch?v= for now.

[rezad1393]

what makes this so bad is that user loses the link.
if I open many links and they all go to homepage instead of actual video page, there is no back button for it to go back and find the link I opened.

that's why I asked for a workaround for now.