peertube/README.md

<h1 align="center">
  <a href="https://joinpeertube.org">
  <img src="https://joinpeertube.org/img/brand.png" alt="PeerTube">
  <a>
</h1>

<p align=center>
  <strong><a href="https://joinpeertube.org">Website</a></strong>
  | <strong><a href="https://instances.joinpeertube.org">Join an instance</a></strong>
  | <strong><a href="#package-create-your-own-instance">Create one</a></strong>
  | <strong><a href="#contact">Chat with us</a></strong>
</p>

<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>Client</strong>

  <br />

  <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/cWJhRDFJbS9qeUhzYW04MnlIVjlQQ0x3aE5POXBaV1lycGo5VlQxK3JqZz0tLTNUWW5ySEVvS1N4UnBhYlhsdXVCeVE9PQ==--db09e291d36a582af8b2929d62a625ed660cdf1d">
    <img src='https://www.browserstack.com/automate/badge.svg?badge_key=cWJhRDFJbS9qeUhzYW04MnlIVjlQQ0x3aE5POXBaV1lycGo5VlQxK3JqZz0tLTNUWW5ySEVvS1N4UnBhYlhsdXVCeVE9PQ==--db09e291d36a582af8b2929d62a625ed660cdf1d'/>
  </a>
</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://framatube.org/videos/watch/217eefeb-883d-45be-b7fc-a788ad8507d3">
    <img src="https://lutim.cpy.re/8cZDRIEF.png" alt="screenshot" />
  </a>
</p>

:sparkles: Features
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<img src="https://lutim.cpy.re/AHbctLjn.png" align="left" height="300px"/>
<h3 align="left">Video streaming</h3>
<p align="left">
Just upload your videos, and be sure they will stream anywhere. Add a description, some tags and your video will be discoverable by the entire video fediverse, not just your instance. You can even embed a player on your favorite website!
</p>

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<img src="https://lutim.cpy.re/cxWccUK7.png" align="right" height="200px"/>

<h3 align="right">Keep in touch with video creators</h3>
<p align="right">
Follow your favorite channels from PeerTube or really any other place. No need to have an account on the instance you watched a video to follow its author, you can do all of that from the Fediverse (Mastodon, Pleroma and plenty others), or just with good ol' RSS.
</p>

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<img src="https://lutim.cpy.re/K07EhFbt.png" align="left" height="200px"/>

<h3 align="left">An interface to call home</h3>
<p align="left">
Be it as a user or an instance administrator, you can decide what your experience will be like. Don't like the colors? They are easy to change. Don't want to list videos of an instance but let your users subscribe to them? Don't like the regular web client? All of that can be changed, and much more. No UX dark pattern, no mining your data, no video recommendation bullshit™.
</p>

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<h3 align="right">Communities that help each other</h3>
<p align="right">
In addition to visitors using WebTorrent to share the load among them, instances can help each other by caching one another's videos. This way even small instances have a way to show content to a wider audience, as they will be shouldered by friend instances (more about that in our <a href="/support/doc/redundancy.md">redundancy guide</a>).
</p>
<p align="right">
Content creators can get help from their viewers in the simplest way possible: a support button showing a message linking to their donation accounts or really anything else. No more pay-per-view and advertisements that hurt visitors and <strike>incentivize</strike> alter creativity (more about that in our <a href="./FAQ.md">FAQ</a>).
</p>

---

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) explaining what PeerTube is
   * [Video](https://peertube.cpy.re/videos/watch/da2b08d4-a242-4170-b32a-4ec8cbdca701) showing the communication between PeerTube and [Mastodon](https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon)

:question: Motivation
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We can't build a FOSS video streaming alternative to YouTube, Dailymotion,
Vimeo... with 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 popular 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 BitTorrent inside the web browser, as of today.

:package: Create your own instance
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#### Dependencies

  * nginx
  * **PostgreSQL >= 9.6**
  * **Redis >= 2.8.18**
  * **NodeJS >= 8.x**
  * **yarn >= 1.x**
  * **FFmpeg >= 3.x**

See the [production guide](/support/doc/production.md), which is the recommended way.

See the [community packages](https://docs.joinpeertube.org/lang/en/docs/install.html), which cover various platforms (including [YunoHost](https://install-app.yunohost.org/?app=peertube) and [Docker](/support/doc/docker.md)).

:wrench: Contribute/Translate/Test
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*Spoiler alert*: you don't need to be a coder to help!

See the [contributing
guide](/.github/CONTRIBUTING.md). Or simply join the cheerful bunch that makes our community:

  * Chat<a name="contact"></a>:
    * 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)**
  * Forum:
    * Framacolibri: [https://framacolibri.org/c/peertube](https://framacolibri.org/c/peertube)

:book: Documentation
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If you have a question, please try to find the answer in the [FAQ](/FAQ.md) first.

### User documentation

See the [user documentation](https://docs.joinpeertube.org/lang/en/userdocs/).

### Admin documentation

See [how to create your own instance](#package-create-your-own-instance).

See the more general [admin documentation](https://docs.joinpeertube.org/lang/en/docs/).

#### 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...)](/support/doc/tools.md#server-tools)

### Technical documentation

See [ARCHITECTURE.md](/ARCHITECTURE.md) for a more detailed explanation of the architectural choices.

#### Backend

  * REST API:
    * Quick Start: [/support/doc/api/quickstart.md](/support/doc/api/quickstart.md)
    * Swagger/OpenAPI schema: [/support/doc/api/openapi.yaml](/support/doc/api/openapi.yaml)
    * HTML explorer: [/support/doc/api/html/index.html](https://htmlpreview.github.io/?https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/blob/develop/support/doc/api/html/index.html)
  * Servers communicate with each other 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...).
  * When a user uploads a video, the server sends its followers metadata about the video (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="support/doc/user/decentralized.png" alt="Decentralized" />

<img src="support/doc/user/watch-video.png" alt="Watch a video" />

<img src="support/doc/user/watch-p2p.png" alt="Watch a P2P video" />

</p>


:heart: Supports of our crowdfunding
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We have run [a crowdfunding campaign](https://www.kisskissbankbank.com/en/projects/peertube-a-free-and-federated-video-platform) to pave the road to the version 1.0.0 of PeerTube. Thanks to everyone who pitched in and shared the news around!

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## 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/>.