invidious-export-server/README.md

Preparation

You can connect directly to the Invidious database.

Only the following tables are used and must be kept:

• playlist_videos
• playlists
• session_ids
• users

You can delete the other ones.

For example, if you're exporting the database:

pg_dump -U kemal -t playlist_videos -t playlists -t session_ids -t users invidious -Fc -Z3 > invidious.sql

This saves 90% of storage compared to running pg_dump without args, in my case 432M -> 25M

Then:

cat invidious.sql | pg_restore -U kemal -d invidious

Environment variables

See the .env.example file

Health check

A /health endpoint is provided that always returns OK