README.md

   1 <h1 align="center">
   2   PeerTube
   3 </h1>
   4
   5 <h4 align="center">
   6 Decentralized video streaming platform using P2P (BitTorrent) directly in the web browser with <a href="https://github.com/feross/webtorrent">WebTorrent</a>.
   7 </h4>
   8
   9 **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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  11 <p align="center">
  12   <strong>Client</strong>
  13
  14   <br />
  15
  16   <a href="https://david-dm.org/Chocobozzz/PeerTube?path=client">
  17     <img src="https://david-dm.org/Chocobozzz/PeerTube.svg?path=client" alt="Dependency Status" />
  18   </a>
  19
  20   <a href="https://david-dm.org/Chocobozzz/PeerTube?path=client#info=dev">
  21     <img src="https://david-dm.org/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/dev-status.svg?path=client" alt="devDependency Status" />
  22   </a>
  23 </p>
  24
  25 <p align="center">
  26   <strong>Server</strong>
  27
  28   <br />
  29
  30   <a href="https://travis-ci.org/Chocobozzz/PeerTube">
  31     <img src="https://travis-ci.org/Chocobozzz/PeerTube.svg?branch=develop" alt="Build Status" />
  32   </a>
  33
  34   <a href="https://david-dm.org/Chocobozzz/PeerTube">
  35     <img src="https://david-dm.org/Chocobozzz/PeerTube.svg" alt="Dependencies Status" />
  36   </a>
  37
  38   <a href="https://david-dm.org/Chocobozzz/PeerTube#info=dev">
  39     <img src="https://david-dm.org/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/dev-status.svg" alt="devDependency Status" />
  40   </a>
  41
  42   <a href="http://standardjs.com/">
  43     <img src="https://img.shields.io/badge/code%20style-standard-brightgreen.svg" alt="JavaScript Style Guide" />
  44   </a>
  45
  46   <a href="https://kiwiirc.com/client/irc.freenode.net/#peertube">
  47     <img src="https://img.shields.io/badge/%23peertube-on%20freenode-brightgreen.svg" alt="PeerTube Freenode IRC" />
  48   </a>
  49 </p>
  50
  51 <br />
  52
  53 <p align="center">
  54   <a href="https://peertube.cpy.re">
  55     <img src="https://lutim.cpy.re/mRdBAdeD.png" alt="screenshot" />
  56   </a>
  57 </p>
  58
  59 ## Demonstration
  60
  61 Want to see in action?
  62
  63    * [Demo server](http://peertube.cpy.re)
  64    * [Video](https://peertube.cpy.re/videos/watch/f78a97f8-a142-4ce1-a5bd-154bf9386504) to see how the "decentralization feature" looks like
  65    * 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.
  66
  67 ## Why
  68
  69 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.
  70
  71 So we need to have a decentralized network (as [Diaspora](https://github.com/diaspora/diaspora) for example).
  72 But it's not enough because one video could become famous and overload the server.
  73 It's the reason why we need to use a P2P protocol to limit the server load.
  74 Thanks to [WebTorrent](https://github.com/feross/webtorrent), we can make P2P (thus bittorrent) inside the web browser right now.
  75
  76 ## Features
  77
  78 - [X] Frontend
  79   - [X] Angular frontend
  80 - [X] Join the fediverse
  81   - [X] Follow other instances
  82   - [X] Unfollow an instance
  83   - [X] Get for the followers/following list
  84 - [X] Upload a video
  85   - [X] Seed the video
  86   - [X] Send the meta data with ActivityPub to followers
  87 - [X] Remove the video
  88 - [X] List the videos
  89 - [X] View the video in an HTML5 player with WebTorrent
  90 - [X] Admin panel
  91 - [X] OpenGraph tags
  92 - [X] OEmbed
  93 - [X] Update video
  94 - [X] Videos view counter
  95 - [X] Videos likes/dislikes
  96 - [X] Transcoding to different definitions
  97 - [X] Download file/torrent
  98 - [X] User video bytes quota
  99 - [X] User video channels
 100 - [X] NSFW warnings/settings
 101 - [X] Video description in markdown
 102 - [X] User roles (administrator, moderator)
 103 - [X] User registration
 104 - [X] Video privacy settings (public, unlisted or private)
 105 - [X] Signaling a video to the admin origin PeerTube instance
 106 - [ ] Videos comments
 107 - [ ] User playlist
 108 - [ ] User subscriptions (by tags, author...)
 109 - [ ] Add "DDOS" security
 110
 111
 112 ## Installation
 113
 114 See [wiki](https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/wiki) for complete installation commands.
 115
 116 ### Front compatibility
 117
 118   * Chromium
 119   * Firefox (>= 42 for MediaSource support)
 120
 121 ### Dependencies
 122
 123   * **NodeJS >= 6.x**
 124   * **npm >= 3.x**
 125   * yarn
 126   * OpenSSL (cli)
 127   * PostgreSQL
 128   * FFmpeg
 129
 130 #### Debian
 131
 132   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)
 133   2. Install yarn: [https://yarnpkg.com/en/docs/install](https://yarnpkg.com/en/docs/install)
 134   3. Add jessie backports to your *source.list*: http://backports.debian.org/Instructions/
 135   4. Run:
 136
 137         $ apt-get update
 138         $ apt-get install ffmpeg postgresql-9.4 openssl
 139
 140 #### Ubuntu 16.04
 141
 142   1. Install NodeJS 8.x (current LTS): (same as Debian)
 143   2. Install yarn: (same as Debian)
 144   3. Run:
 145
 146         $ apt-get update
 147         $ apt-get install ffmpeg postgresql openssl
 148
 149 #### Other distribution... (PR welcome)
 150
 151
 152 ### Sources
 153
 154     $ git clone -b master https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube
 155     $ cd PeerTube
 156     $ yarn install
 157     $ npm run build
 158
 159 ## Usage
 160
 161 ### Production
 162
 163 If you want to run PeerTube for production (bad idea for now :) ):
 164
 165     $ cp config/production.yaml.example config/production.yaml
 166
 167 Then edit the `config/production.yaml` file according to your webserver configuration. Keys set in this file will override those of `config/default.yml`.
 168
 169 Finally, run the server with the `production` `NODE_ENV` variable set.
 170
 171     $ NODE_ENV=production npm start
 172
 173 The administrator password is automatically generated and can be found in the logs. You can set another password with:
 174
 175     $ NODE_ENV=production npm run reset-password -- -u root
 176
 177 **Nginx template** (reverse proxy): https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/tree/master/support/nginx <br />
 178 **Systemd template**: https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/tree/master/support/systemd
 179
 180 You can check the application (CORS headers, tracker websocket...) by running:
 181
 182     $ NODE_ENV=production npm run check
 183
 184 ### Upgrade
 185
 186 The following commands will upgrade the source (according to your current branch), upgrade node modules and rebuild client application:
 187
 188     # systemctl stop peertube
 189     $ npm run upgrade-peertube
 190     # systemctl start peertube
 191
 192 ### Development
 193
 194 In this mode, the server will run requests between instances more quickly, the video durations are limited to a few seconds.
 195
 196 To develop on the server-side (server files are automatically compiled when we modify them and the server restarts automatically too):
 197
 198     $ npm run dev:server
 199
 200 The server (with the client) will listen on `localhost:9000`.
 201
 202
 203 To develop on the client side (client files are automatically compiled when we modify them):
 204
 205     $ npm run dev:client
 206
 207 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).
 208
 209 **Username**: *root* <br/>
 210 **Password**: *test*
 211
 212 ### Test with 3 fresh nodes
 213
 214     $ npm run clean:server:test
 215     $ npm run play
 216
 217 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.
 218
 219 ### Other commands
 220
 221 To print all available command run:
 222
 223     $ npm run help
 224
 225 ## Contributing
 226
 227 See the [contributing guide](https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/blob/master/.github/CONTRIBUTING.md).
 228
 229 See the [server code documentation](https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/blob/master/support/doc/server/code.md).
 230
 231 See the [client code documentation](https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/blob/master/support/doc/client/code.md).
 232
 233
 234 ## Architecture
 235
 236 See [ARCHITECTURE.md](https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/blob/master/ARCHITECTURE.md) for a more detailed explication.
 237
 238 ### Backend
 239
 240   * The backend is a REST API
 241   * Servers communicate with each others with [Activity Pub](https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/)
 242   * Each server has its own users who query it (search videos, where the torrent URI of this specific video is...)
 243   * If a user upload a video, the server seeds it and sends the video information (name, short description, torrent URI...) its followers
 244   * A server is a tracker responsible for all the videos uploaded in it
 245   * 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
 246
 247 Here are some simple schemes:
 248
 249 <p align="center">
 250
 251 <img src="https://lutim.cpy.re/6Qut3ure.png" alt="Decentralized" />
 252
 253 <img src="https://lutim.cpy.re/NvRAcv6U.png" alt="Watch a video" />
 254
 255 <img src="https://lutim.cpy.re/pqKm3Q5S.png" alt="Watch a P2P video" />
 256
 257 </p>