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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</p>
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<strong>We have run <a href="https://www.kisskissbankbank.com/en/projects/peertube-a-free-and-federated-video-platform">a crowdfunding campaign</a> 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 <a href="https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/milestone/1">the corresponding milestone</a> and help its development!</strong>
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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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<a href="https://www.browserstack.com/automate/public-build/VXBPc0szNjUvRUNsREJQRFF6RkEvSjJBclZ4VUJBUm1hcS9RZGpUbitRST0tLWFWbjNEdVN6eEZpYTk4dGVpMkVlQWc9PQ==--644e755052bf7fe2346eb6e868be8e706718a17c%">
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</a>
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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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</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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## Getting Started
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* **[Website](https://joinpeertube.org)**
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* **[Instances list](https://instances.joinpeertube.org)**
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* Chat:
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* IRC : **[#peertube on chat.freenode.net:6697](https://kiwiirc.com/client/irc.freenode.net/#peertube)**
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* Matrix (bridged on the IRC channel) : **[#peertube:matrix.org](https://matrix.to/#/#peertube:matrix.org)**
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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](https://peertube.cpy.re)
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* [peertube2.cpy.re](https://peertube2.cpy.re)
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* [peertube3.cpy.re](https://peertube3.cpy.re)
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* [Video](https://framatube.org/videos/watch/217eefeb-883d-45be-b7fc-a788ad8507d3) What is PeerTube?
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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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* [Video](https://peertube.cpy.re/videos/watch/da2b08d4-a242-4170-b32a-4ec8cbdca701) to see
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the communication between PeerTube and [Mastodon](https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon)
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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. That is
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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 in production
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See the [production guide](/support/doc/production.md).
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## Run on YunoHost
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[](https://install-app.yunohost.org/?app=peertube)
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Peertube app for [YunoHost](https://yunohost.org). See [here](https://github.com/YunoHost-Apps/peertube_ynh).
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## Run using Docker
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See the [docker guide](/support/doc/docker.md).
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## Contribute/Translate/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 (write documentation, translate, develop...). 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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Quick Start: [/support/doc/api/quickstart.md](/support/doc/api/quickstart.md)
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Endpoints documentation:
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* 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)
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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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* [Admin server tools (create transcoding jobs, prune storage...)](https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/blob/develop/support/doc/tools.md#server-tools)
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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 on 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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## License
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Copyright (C) 2018 PeerTube Contributors
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This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
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it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published
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by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
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(at your option) any later version.
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This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
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GNU Affero General Public License for more details.
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You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License
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along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
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