PeerTube
Federated (ActivityPub) video streaming platform using P2P (BitTorrent)
directly in the web browser with WebTorrent.
We have run a crowdfunding campaign to pave the road to version 1.0 of PeerTube. Thanks to everyone who pitched in and shared the news around. You can now check out the corresponding milestone and help its development!
Client
Server
## Getting Started
* **[Website](https://joinpeertube.org)**
* **[Instances list](https://instances.joinpeertube.org)**
* Chat:
* IRC : **[#peertube on chat.freenode.net:6697](https://kiwiirc.com/client/irc.freenode.net/#peertube)**
* Matrix (bridged on the IRC channel) : **[#peertube:matrix.org](https://matrix.to/#/#peertube:matrix.org)**
## Demonstration
Want to see it in action?
* Demonstration servers:
* [peertube.cpy.re](https://peertube.cpy.re)
* [peertube2.cpy.re](https://peertube2.cpy.re)
* [peertube3.cpy.re](https://peertube3.cpy.re)
* [Video](https://framatube.org/videos/watch/217eefeb-883d-45be-b7fc-a788ad8507d3) What is PeerTube?
* [Video](https://peertube.cpy.re/videos/watch/f78a97f8-a142-4ce1-a5bd-154bf9386504)
to see what the "decentralization feature" looks like
* [Video](https://peertube.cpy.re/videos/watch/da2b08d4-a242-4170-b32a-4ec8cbdca701) to see
the communication between PeerTube and [Mastodon](https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon)
## Why
We can't build a FOSS video streaming alternatives to YouTube, Dailymotion,
Vimeo... with a centralized software. One organization alone may not have
enough money to pay for bandwidth and video storage of its servers.
So we need to have a decentralized network of servers seeding videos (as
[Diaspora](https://github.com/diaspora/diaspora) for example). But it's not
enough because one video could become famous and overload the server. That is
why we need to use a P2P protocol to limit the server load. Thanks to
[WebTorrent](https://github.com/feross/webtorrent), we can make P2P (thus
BitTorrent) inside the web browser, as of today.
## Dependencies
* nginx
* PostgreSQL
* Redis
* **NodeJS >= 8.x**
* yarn
* OpenSSL (cli)
* **FFmpeg >= 3.x**
## Run in production
See the [production guide](/support/doc/production.md).
## Run on YunoHost
[](https://install-app.yunohost.org/?app=peertube)
Peertube app for [YunoHost](https://yunohost.org). See [here](https://github.com/YunoHost-Apps/peertube_ynh).
## Run using Docker
See the [docker guide](/support/doc/docker.md).
## Contribute/Translate/Test
See the [contributing
guide](/.github/CONTRIBUTING.md)
to see how to test or contribute to PeerTube (write documentation, translate, develop...). Spoiler alert: you don't need to be a
coder to help!
## API REST documentation
Quick Start: [/support/doc/api/quickstart.md](/support/doc/api/quickstart.md)
Endpoints documentation:
* HTML version: [/support/doc/api/html/index.html](https://htmlpreview.github.io/?https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/blob/develop/support/doc/api/html/index.html)
* Swagger/OpenAPI schema: [/support/doc/api/openapi.yaml](/support/doc/api/openapi.yaml)
## Tools
* [Import videos (YouTube, Dailymotion, Vimeo...)](/support/doc/tools.md)
* [Upload videos from the CLI](/support/doc/tools.md)
## FAQ
If you have a question, please try to find the answer in the [FAQ](/FAQ.md) first.
## Architecture
See [ARCHITECTURE.md](/ARCHITECTURE.md) for a more detailed explanation.
### Backend
* The backend is a REST API.
* Servers communicate with each others with [Activity
Pub](https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/).
* Each server has its own users who query it (search videos, query where the
torrent URI of this specific video is...).
* If a user uploads a video, the server seeds it and sends its followers some
metadata (name, short description, torrent URI...).
* A server is a tracker responsible for all the videos uploaded on it.
* Even if nobody watches a video, it is seeded by the server (through
[WebSeed protocol](http://www.bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0019.html)) where the
video was uploaded.
Here are some simple schemes:
## License
Copyright (C) 2018 PeerTube Contributors
This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published
by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU Affero General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License
along with this program. If not, see .