PeerTube

Decentralized video streaming platform using P2P (BitTorrent) directly in the web browser with WebTorrent.

**PeerTube is sponsored by [Framasoft](https://framatube.org/#en), a non-profit that promotes, spreads and develops free-libre software. If you want to support this project, please [consider donating them](https://soutenir.framasoft.org/en/).**

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## Demonstration Want to see in action? * [Demo server](http://peertube.cpy.re) * [Video](https://peertube.cpy.re/videos/watch/f78a97f8-a142-4ce1-a5bd-154bf9386504) to see how the "decentralization feature" looks like * Experimental demo servers that share videos (they are in the same network): [peertube2](http://peertube2.cpy.re), [peertube3](http://peertube3.cpy.re). Since I do experiments with them, sometimes they might not work correctly. ## Why We can't build a FOSS video streaming alternatives to YouTube, Dailymotion, Vimeo... with a centralized software. One organization alone cannot have enough money to pay bandwidth and video storage of its server. So we need to have a decentralized network (as [Diaspora](https://github.com/diaspora/diaspora) for example). But it's not enough because one video could become famous and overload the server. It's the reason 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 right now. ## Features - [X] Frontend - [X] Angular frontend - [X] Join the fediverse - [X] Follow other instances - [X] Unfollow an instance - [X] Get for the followers/following list - [X] Upload a video - [X] Seed the video - [X] Send the meta data with ActivityPub to followers - [X] Remove the video - [X] List the videos - [X] View the video in an HTML5 player with WebTorrent - [X] Admin panel - [X] OpenGraph tags - [X] OEmbed - [X] Update video - [X] Videos view counter - [X] Videos likes/dislikes - [X] Transcoding to different definitions - [X] Download file/torrent - [X] User video bytes quota - [X] User video channels - [X] NSFW warnings/settings - [X] Video description in markdown - [X] User roles (administrator, moderator) - [X] User registration - [X] Video privacy settings (public, unlisted or private) - [X] Signaling a video to the admin origin PeerTube instance - [ ] Videos comments - [ ] User playlist - [ ] User subscriptions (by tags, author...) - [ ] Add "DDOS" security ## Installation See [wiki](https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/wiki) for complete installation commands. ### Front compatibility * Chromium * Firefox (>= 42 for MediaSource support) ### Dependencies * **NodeJS >= 6.x** * **npm >= 3.x** * yarn * OpenSSL (cli) * PostgreSQL * FFmpeg #### Debian 1. Install NodeJS 6.x (previous LTS): [https://nodejs.org/en/download/package-manager/#debian-and-ubuntu-based-linux-distributions](https://nodejs.org/en/download/package-manager/#debian-and-ubuntu-based-linux-distributions) 2. Install yarn: [https://yarnpkg.com/en/docs/install](https://yarnpkg.com/en/docs/install) 3. Add jessie backports to your *source.list*: http://backports.debian.org/Instructions/ 4. Run: $ apt-get update $ apt-get install ffmpeg postgresql-9.4 openssl #### Ubuntu 16.04 1. Install NodeJS 8.x (current LTS): (same as Debian) 2. Install yarn: (same as Debian) 3. Run: $ apt-get update $ apt-get install ffmpeg postgresql openssl #### Other distribution... (PR welcome) ### Sources $ git clone -b master https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube $ cd PeerTube $ yarn install $ npm run build ## Usage ### Production If you want to run PeerTube for production (bad idea for now :) ): $ cp config/production.yaml.example config/production.yaml Then edit the `config/production.yaml` file according to your webserver configuration. Keys set in this file will override those of `config/default.yml`. Finally, run the server with the `production` `NODE_ENV` variable set. $ NODE_ENV=production npm start The administrator password is automatically generated and can be found in the logs. You can set another password with: $ NODE_ENV=production npm run reset-password -- -u root **Nginx template** (reverse proxy): https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/tree/master/support/nginx
**Systemd template**: https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/tree/master/support/systemd You can check the application (CORS headers, tracker websocket...) by running: $ NODE_ENV=production npm run check ### Upgrade The following commands will upgrade the source (according to your current branch), upgrade node modules and rebuild client application: # systemctl stop peertube $ npm run upgrade-peertube # systemctl start peertube ### Development In this mode, the server will run requests between instances more quickly, the video durations are limited to a few seconds. To develop on the server-side (server files are automatically compiled when we modify them and the server restarts automatically too): $ npm run dev:server The server (with the client) will listen on `localhost:9000`. To develop on the client side (client files are automatically compiled when we modify them): $ npm run dev:client The API will listen on `localhost:9000` and the frontend on `localhost:3000` (with hot module replacement, you don't need to refresh the web browser). **Username**: *root*
**Password**: *test* ### Test with 3 fresh nodes $ npm run clean:server:test $ npm run play Then you will get access to the three nodes at `http://localhost:900{1,2,3}` with the `root` as username and `test{1,2,3}` for the password. ### Other commands To print all available command run: $ npm run help ## Contributing See the [contributing guide](https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/blob/master/.github/CONTRIBUTING.md). See the [server code documentation](https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/blob/master/support/doc/server/code.md). See the [client code documentation](https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/blob/master/support/doc/client/code.md). ## Architecture See [ARCHITECTURE.md](https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/blob/master/ARCHITECTURE.md) for a more detailed explication. ### 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, where the torrent URI of this specific video is...) * If a user upload a video, the server seeds it and sends the video information (name, short description, torrent URI...) its followers * A server is a tracker responsible for all the videos uploaded in 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:

Decentralized Watch a video Watch a P2P video