Sync watched status with Invidious

[kris-anderson]

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New feature

Describe the feature

For those of us with multiple devices, it would be great if Yattee would sync the watched status with Invidious.

I have an iPhone, iPad, MacBook, and multiple Apple TVs. Invidious does keep track of watched status, but Yattee keeps that status local instead of storing syncing that with Invidious which gets saved in a PostgreSQL database.

I would love to not only know what I've watched, but I could start a video on my phone, and then finish on the Apple TV.

There is a similar request to this, which is issue #291. That issue is asking for iCloud syncing of the watched status.

That would also solve what I'm looking for, but I agree with this comment that doing this via Invidious would be better:
#291 (comment)

That way it's in sync on all Yattee devices, but also via the web client (or any other front end client).

[arekf]

Invidious does not have APIs to manage watched videos. If this ever changes then this can be reconsidered.

[kris-anderson]

@arekf I also don't see this in their documentation:
https://docs.invidious.io/api/authenticated-endpoints/

However, I do see a history API was added and merged about 11 months ago:
iv-org/invidious#3654

So perhaps they just haven't updated their docs?

[arekf]

@kris-anderson Thanks, was not aware of this API, I will reopen, however I don't think it is easy to implement because it still will require to maintain local database and sync it with Invidious APIs as otherwise it will not perform well.

I think iCloud will come first, hopefully supported with merge of this PR: sindresorhus/Defaults#136

[kris-anderson]

@arekf That PR you mentioned looks like it was merged 22 days ago which is great.

Should we close out this issue and instead this can be handled with #291?

[stonerl]

@kris-anderson This has not made its way into Yattee.

Besides this, syncing the watched status with Invidious/Piped would be a nice feature.

So I would let this issue open.