peertube/README.md

<h1 align="center">
  PeerTube
</h1>

<p align="center">
Federated (ActivityPub) video streaming platform using P2P (BitTorrent)
directly in the web browser with <a href="https://github.com/feross/webtorrent">WebTorrent</a>.
</p>

<p align="center">
<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>
</p>

<p align="center">
  <strong>Client</strong>

  <br />

  <a href="https://david-dm.org/Chocobozzz/PeerTube?path=client">
    <img src="https://david-dm.org/Chocobozzz/PeerTube.svg?path=client" alt="Dependency Status" />
  </a>

  <a href="https://david-dm.org/Chocobozzz/PeerTube?path=client&type=dev">
    <img src="https://david-dm.org/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/dev-status.svg?path=client" alt="devDependency Status" />
  </a>
  
  <a href="https://www.browserstack.com/automate/public-build/VXBPc0szNjUvRUNsREJQRFF6RkEvSjJBclZ4VUJBUm1hcS9RZGpUbitRST0tLWFWbjNEdVN6eEZpYTk4dGVpMkVlQWc9PQ==--644e755052bf7fe2346eb6e868be8e706718a17c%">
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</p>

<p align="center">
  <strong>Server</strong>

  <br />

  <a href="https://travis-ci.org/Chocobozzz/PeerTube">
    <img src="https://travis-ci.org/Chocobozzz/PeerTube.svg?branch=develop" alt="Build Status" />
  </a>

  <a href="https://david-dm.org/Chocobozzz/PeerTube">
    <img src="https://david-dm.org/Chocobozzz/PeerTube.svg" alt="Dependencies Status" />
  </a>

  <a href="https://david-dm.org/Chocobozzz/PeerTube?type=dev">
    <img src="https://david-dm.org/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/dev-status.svg" alt="devDependency Status" />
  </a>

  <a href="http://standardjs.com/">
    <img src="https://img.shields.io/badge/code%20style-standard-brightgreen.svg" alt="JavaScript Style Guide" />
  </a>
</p>

<br />

<p align="center">
  <a href="https://peertube.cpy.re">
    <img src="https://lutim.cpy.re/mRdBAdeD.png" alt="screenshot" />
  </a>
</p>

## 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
[![Install Peertube with YunoHost](https://install-app.yunohost.org/install-with-yunohost.png)](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)
 * [Admin server tools (create transcoding jobs, prune storage...)](https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/blob/develop/support/doc/tools.md#server-tools)

## 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:

<p align="center">

<img src="https://lutim.cpy.re/6Qut3ure.png" alt="Decentralized" />

<img src="https://lutim.cpy.re/NvRAcv6U.png" alt="Watch a video" />

<img src="https://lutim.cpy.re/pqKm3Q5S.png" alt="Watch a P2P video" />

</p>

## Supports of our crowdfunding

Quonfucius, IP Solution, \_Laure\_, @lex666, 0x010C, 3dsman, 3rw4n-G3D, aallrd, Abel-Berger, Adam-Odell, adechambost, adim, adngdb, Adrien Thurotte, Adrien-BARAN, Adrien-Hamraoui, Adrien-Horcholle, Adrien-Luxey, Adrien-Polar, Adrien-Touminet, Agathe Begault, Agence-Différente, Ahmed-Al-Ahmed, aiprole, akpoptro, Al-Nimr, Alain-Delgrange, Alain-Fyon, Alain-Girard, Alain-MICHEL, Aleksandar-Aleksandrov, Alex-Chancellé, Alex-Dufournet, Alex-Gleason, Alexander-Murray-Watters, Alexandre-Alapetite, Alexandre-Badez, Alexandre-Giuliani, Alexandre-Mercier, Alexandre-Roux-2, Alexandre-SIMON, Alexandre29, Alexia-Monsavoir, Alexis-Frn, Alexis-Gros, Alexis-Kauffmann, alfajet, Alias, alinemont, Aliocha-Lang, Alllightlong, aloisdg, Amanda Hinault, André-Rabe, Anne-PROTAS, antoine, Antoine Derouin, Antoine-Beauvillain, Antoine-Deléron, antomoro, Antón López, Antonin-DENIS, Antonin-Segault, aokami, Apichat-Apichat, Ar-To, ARIAS-Frédéric-2, ariasuni, Aris-Papathéodorou, Arnaud -Vigoureux , Arnaud-Mounier, Arnaud-Risler, Arnaud-Vigouroux, Arnulf, Arthur-Bellier, arthur-bello, Arthur-Charron, Arthur-De Kimpe, Arthur.Ball, Arthur.Frin, Arvi-LEFEVRE, athanael.fr, auber38, Auguste Psqr, Aurélien-Tamisier, Avel-Musicavel, axel-guegant, Axel-Plat, Aymeric-Dlv, Ayst, Azenilion, Bandino, baptiste-lemoine, Baptiste-Rochez, baruica, Bastien-Dangin, batlab, bcourtine, Bea-Schaack-2, beaufils, beaumme, Belmont1, Ben-Geeraerts, Ben-Meijering, Benjamin-Baratta, Benjamin-Roussel, Benoît Joffre, Benoîtdd, Bernard-Legrand, Bernard-Vauquelin, Bernhard-Hayden, bertrand.arlabosse, bigsicret, bjg, bnjbvr, bob\_isat, bobstechsite, Bolton-Allan, Boov', Boris-ARGAUD, Brice.Francois, broz42, Bruno Lefèvre, Bruno-Douville, Bruno-Fortabat, Bruno-Gadaleta, Bruno-VASTA, Bumblebee, Butchcassidy, Cadiou-Christophe, calendros, Candy-Ming, cappitaine, Carmen-Drocourt, carrigns, case, Cathy-Barbet, CBach, ccazin, Cecile-Obernesser, Cecilia-:), Cédric-Bleschet, Cédric.Bayle, Cestdoncvrai, cgay, champ contrechamp, chapa, charlerlin, charles-jacquin, Charlie-Duclut, charlotte-cgondre78, Chris-Doe, chris-louba, Christel-Berthelot, Christian-FERRARIS, christiannavelot, Christophe-Bastin, christophe-beziers la fosse, Christophe-Pieret, Christophe-Verhaege, christophec, Christopher-Bero, chtfn, chud, Claire-C, clairezed, Claude-POUGHEON, Clément-Hubert, Clément-Morelle, clydeb, Comamanel, Côme Chilliet, Confederac.io, Consulting-AZAPTEC, Corentin3892, CryoGen, cyp, Cypher-Goat, Cyril, Cyril\_M\_, Cyril-MONMOUTON, Cyril-Waechter, Damien-Gabard, Damien-Garaud, Dams3132, Daniel Kuebler, Daniel Waxweiler, Daniel-Bartsch, Daniel-PIPALA, Daniel-Struck, Daniel-Thul, Danny-Joerger, DansLeRuSH, DantSu, Dany-Marcoux, Daouzli-Adel, Darfeld, Darth\_Judge, Dashcom, David-BADOIL, David-Benoist, David-Dormoy, David-Gil-2, David-Velasco, David-Wagner, David-writ, davlgd, davyg2, dbudo72300, de Folleville -Matthieu , DeBugs, Denis-Lecourtiller, Denis-Vannier, Desmu, Didier-Bove, Diego-Crespo, Dimitri-Stouney, dino, Dinosaure, Doc Skellington, Dominique-Brun, dr4Ke, DreamClassier, DRogueRonin, dussydelf, Dylan-Moonfire, Ealhad, Edouard-SCHWEISGUTH, Elanndelh--, ElodieEtJimmy, Éloi-Rivard, Elric-Noel, Elwan-Héry, Emilie-Wietzke, Emilien-Ghomi, eparth, Eric-Bouhana, Eric-Hendricks, Eric.Vales, Erwan-Moreau, Erzender, ESS\_Clem, Etienne-Baqué, Etienne-Botek, Etienne-Lmn, Ex-Serv, fabeveynes, Fabien BERINI ( Rehvaro ) , Fabien Freling, Fabien-Roualdes, Fabien.Abraini, Fabien.Bonneval, fabrice-simon, farlistener, Felix-ROBICHON, FelixDouet, FHE, Fiamoa-McBenson, flamwenco, Flopômpôm, FloraGC, Florent-Deschamps, Florent-Fayolle, Florent-Mallet, Florent-Vasseur, Florent.Duveau, Florestan Fournier, Florian Kohrt, Florian-Bellafont, Florian-Douay, Florian-LE GOFF, Florian-Siegenthaler, Florian.Freyss, fobrice, FOKUZA, Fol-De Dol, FP45, Francis.Moraud, François-Dambrine, François-Deguerry, Francois-Goer, François-Lecomte, François-Lemaire, François-Malterre, François-MORLET, François-Schoubben, François-Xavier-Davanne, François-Zajéga, francois.peyratout, Frathom, Fred-Fred-2


## 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 <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.