mirror of https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube
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PeerTube
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Federated (ActivityPub) video streaming platform using P2P (BitTorrent)
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directly in the web browser with <a href="https://github.com/feross/webtorrent">WebTorrent</a>.
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**PeerTube is sponsored by [Framasoft](https://framatube.org/#en), a non-profit
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that promotes, spreads and develops free culture in general, and free-libre
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software in particular. If you want to support this project, please [consider
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donating to them](https://soutenir.framasoft.org/en/).**
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<p align="center">
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<strong>Client</strong>
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<br />
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<a href="https://david-dm.org/Chocobozzz/PeerTube?path=client">
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<img src="https://david-dm.org/Chocobozzz/PeerTube.svg?path=client" alt="Dependency Status" />
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</a>
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<a href="https://david-dm.org/Chocobozzz/PeerTube?path=client&type=dev">
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<img src="https://david-dm.org/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/dev-status.svg?path=client" alt="devDependency Status" />
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</a>
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</p>
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<p align="center">
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<strong>Server</strong>
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<br />
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<a href="https://travis-ci.org/Chocobozzz/PeerTube">
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<img src="https://travis-ci.org/Chocobozzz/PeerTube.svg?branch=develop" alt="Build Status" />
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</a>
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<a href="https://david-dm.org/Chocobozzz/PeerTube">
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<img src="https://david-dm.org/Chocobozzz/PeerTube.svg" alt="Dependencies Status" />
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</a>
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<a href="https://david-dm.org/Chocobozzz/PeerTube?type=dev">
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<img src="https://david-dm.org/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/dev-status.svg" alt="devDependency Status" />
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</a>
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<a href="http://standardjs.com/">
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<img src="https://img.shields.io/badge/code%20style-standard-brightgreen.svg" alt="JavaScript Style Guide" />
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</a>
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<a href="https://kiwiirc.com/client/irc.freenode.net/#peertube">
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<img src="https://img.shields.io/badge/%23peertube-on%20freenode-brightgreen.svg" alt="PeerTube Freenode IRC" />
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</a>
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</p>
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<br />
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<p align="center">
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<a href="https://peertube.cpy.re">
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<img src="https://lutim.cpy.re/mRdBAdeD.png" alt="screenshot" />
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</a>
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</p>
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## Demonstration
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Want to see it in action?
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* Demonstration servers:
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* [peertube.cpy.re](http://peertube.cpy.re)
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* [peertube2.cpy.re](http://peertube2.cpy.re)
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* [peertube3.cpy.re](http://peertube3.cpy.re)
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* [Video](https://peertube.cpy.re/videos/watch/f78a97f8-a142-4ce1-a5bd-154bf9386504)
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to see what the "decentralization feature" looks like
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## Why
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We can't build a FOSS video streaming alternatives to YouTube, Dailymotion,
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Vimeo... with a centralized software. One organization alone may not have
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enough money to pay for bandwidth and video storage of its servers.
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So we need to have a decentralized network of servers seeding videos (as
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[Diaspora](https://github.com/diaspora/diaspora) for example). But it's not
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enough because one video could become famous and overload the server. It's the
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reason why we need to use a P2P protocol to limit the server load. Thanks to
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[WebTorrent](https://github.com/feross/webtorrent), we can make P2P (thus
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BitTorrent) inside the web browser, as of today.
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## Dependencies
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* nginx
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* PostgreSQL
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* Redis
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* **NodeJS >= 8.x**
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* yarn
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* OpenSSL (cli)
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* **FFmpeg >= 3.x**
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## Run using Docker
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See the [docker guide](/support/doc/docker.md)
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## Production
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See the [production guide](/support/doc/production.md).
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## Contributing/Test
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See the [contributing
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guide](/.github/CONTRIBUTING.md)
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to see how to test or contribute to PeerTube. Spoiler alert: you don't need to be a
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coder to help!
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## API REST documentation
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For now only on Github:
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* HTML version: [/support/doc/api/html/index.html](/support/doc/api/html/index.html)
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* Swagger/OpenAPI schema: [/support/doc/api/openapi.yaml](/support/doc/api/openapi.yaml)
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## Tools
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* [Import videos (YouTube, Dailymotion, Vimeo...)](/support/doc/tools.md)
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* [Upload videos from the CLI](/support/doc/tools.md)
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## FAQ
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If you have a question, please try to find the answer in the [FAQ](/FAQ.md) first.
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## Architecture
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See [ARCHITECTURE.md](/ARCHITECTURE.md) for a more detailed explanation.
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### Backend
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* The backend is a REST API.
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* Servers communicate with each others with [Activity
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Pub](https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/).
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* Each server has its own users who query it (search videos, query where the
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torrent URI of this specific video is...).
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* If a user uploads a video, the server seeds it and sends its followers some
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metadata (name, short description, torrent URI...).
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* A server is a tracker responsible for all the videos uploaded in it.
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* Even if nobody watches a video, it is seeded by the server (through
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[WebSeed protocol](http://www.bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0019.html)) where the
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video was uploaded.
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Here are some simple schemes:
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<p align="center">
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<img src="https://lutim.cpy.re/6Qut3ure.png" alt="Decentralized" />
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<img src="https://lutim.cpy.re/NvRAcv6U.png" alt="Watch a video" />
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<img src="https://lutim.cpy.re/pqKm3Q5S.png" alt="Watch a P2P video" />
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</p>
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