README.md

   1 <h1 align="center">
   2   PeerTube
   3 </h1>
   4
   5 <p align="center">
   6 Federated (ActivityPub) video streaming platform using P2P (BitTorrent)
   7 directly in the web browser with <a href="https://github.com/feross/webtorrent">WebTorrent</a>.
   8 </p>
   9
  10 <p align="center">
  11 <strong>We are running <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!</strong>
  12 </p>
  13
  14 <p align="center">
  15   <strong>Client</strong>
  16
  17   <br />
  18
  19   <a href="https://david-dm.org/Chocobozzz/PeerTube?path=client">
  20     <img src="https://david-dm.org/Chocobozzz/PeerTube.svg?path=client" alt="Dependency Status" />
  21   </a>
  22
  23   <a href="https://david-dm.org/Chocobozzz/PeerTube?path=client&type=dev">
  24     <img src="https://david-dm.org/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/dev-status.svg?path=client" alt="devDependency Status" />
  25   </a>
  26
  27   <a href="https://www.browserstack.com/automate/public-build/VXBPc0szNjUvRUNsREJQRFF6RkEvSjJBclZ4VUJBUm1hcS9RZGpUbitRST0tLWFWbjNEdVN6eEZpYTk4dGVpMkVlQWc9PQ==--644e755052bf7fe2346eb6e868be8e706718a17c%">
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  29   </a>
  30 </p>
  31
  32 <p align="center">
  33   <strong>Server</strong>
  34
  35   <br />
  36
  37   <a href="https://travis-ci.org/Chocobozzz/PeerTube">
  38     <img src="https://travis-ci.org/Chocobozzz/PeerTube.svg?branch=develop" alt="Build Status" />
  39   </a>
  40
  41   <a href="https://david-dm.org/Chocobozzz/PeerTube">
  42     <img src="https://david-dm.org/Chocobozzz/PeerTube.svg" alt="Dependencies Status" />
  43   </a>
  44
  45   <a href="https://david-dm.org/Chocobozzz/PeerTube?type=dev">
  46     <img src="https://david-dm.org/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/dev-status.svg" alt="devDependency Status" />
  47   </a>
  48
  49   <a href="http://standardjs.com/">
  50     <img src="https://img.shields.io/badge/code%20style-standard-brightgreen.svg" alt="JavaScript Style Guide" />
  51   </a>
  52
  53   <a href="https://kiwiirc.com/client/irc.freenode.net/#peertube">
  54     <img src="https://img.shields.io/badge/%23peertube-on%20freenode-brightgreen.svg" alt="PeerTube Freenode IRC" />
  55   </a>
  56 </p>
  57
  58 <br />
  59
  60 <p align="center">
  61   <a href="https://peertube.cpy.re">
  62     <img src="https://lutim.cpy.re/mRdBAdeD.png" alt="screenshot" />
  63   </a>
  64 </p>
  65
  66 ## Getting Started
  67
  68   * **[Website](https://joinpeertube.org)**
  69   * **[Instances list](https://instances.joinpeertube.org)**
  70
  71 ## Demonstration
  72
  73 Want to see it in action?
  74
  75    * Demonstration servers:
  76      * [peertube.cpy.re](https://peertube.cpy.re)
  77      * [peertube2.cpy.re](https://peertube2.cpy.re)
  78      * [peertube3.cpy.re](https://peertube3.cpy.re)
  79    * [Video](https://framatube.org/videos/watch/217eefeb-883d-45be-b7fc-a788ad8507d3) What is PeerTube?
  80    * [Video](https://peertube.cpy.re/videos/watch/f78a97f8-a142-4ce1-a5bd-154bf9386504)
  81      to see what the "decentralization feature" looks like
  82    * [Video](https://peertube.cpy.re/videos/watch/da2b08d4-a242-4170-b32a-4ec8cbdca701) to see
  83    the communication between PeerTube and [Mastodon](https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon)
  84
  85 ## Why
  86
  87 We can't build a FOSS video streaming alternatives to YouTube, Dailymotion,
  88 Vimeo... with a centralized software. One organization alone may not have
  89 enough money to pay for bandwidth and video storage of its servers.
  90
  91 So we need to have a decentralized network of servers seeding videos (as
  92 [Diaspora](https://github.com/diaspora/diaspora) for example).  But it's not
  93 enough because one video could become famous and overload the server.  That is
  94 why we need to use a P2P protocol to limit the server load.  Thanks to
  95 [WebTorrent](https://github.com/feross/webtorrent), we can make P2P (thus
  96 BitTorrent) inside the web browser, as of today.
  97
  98 ## Dependencies
  99
 100   * nginx
 101   * PostgreSQL
 102   * Redis
 103   * **NodeJS >= 8.x**
 104   * yarn
 105   * OpenSSL (cli)
 106   * **FFmpeg >= 3.x**
 107
 108 ## Run using Docker
 109
 110 See the [docker guide](/support/doc/docker.md)
 111
 112 ## Run on YunoHost
 113 [![Install Peertube with YunoHost](https://install-app.yunohost.org/install-with-yunohost.png)](https://install-app.yunohost.org/?app=peertube)
 114
 115 Peertube app for [YunoHost](https://yunohost.org). See [here](https://github.com/YunoHost-Apps/peertube_ynh)
 116
 117 ## Production
 118
 119 See the [production guide](/support/doc/production.md).
 120
 121 ## Contribute/Translate/Test
 122
 123 See the [contributing
 124 guide](/.github/CONTRIBUTING.md)
 125 to see how to test or contribute to PeerTube (write documentation, translate, develop...). Spoiler alert: you don't need to be a
 126 coder to help!
 127
 128 ## API REST documentation
 129
 130 Quick Start: [/support/doc/api/quickstart.md](/support/doc/api/quickstart.md)
 131
 132 Endpoints documentation:
 133
 134  * 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)
 135  * Swagger/OpenAPI schema: [/support/doc/api/openapi.yaml](/support/doc/api/openapi.yaml)
 136
 137 ## Tools
 138
 139  * [Import videos (YouTube, Dailymotion, Vimeo...)](/support/doc/tools.md)
 140  * [Upload videos from the CLI](/support/doc/tools.md)
 141
 142 ## FAQ
 143
 144 If you have a question, please try to find the answer in the [FAQ](/FAQ.md) first.
 145
 146 ## Architecture
 147
 148 See [ARCHITECTURE.md](/ARCHITECTURE.md) for a more detailed explanation.
 149
 150 ### Backend
 151
 152   * The backend is a REST API.
 153   * Servers communicate with each others with [Activity
 154     Pub](https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/).
 155   * Each server has its own users who query it (search videos, query where the
 156     torrent URI of this specific video is...).
 157   * If a user uploads a video, the server seeds it and sends its followers some
 158     metadata (name, short description, torrent URI...).
 159   * A server is a tracker responsible for all the videos uploaded on it.
 160   * Even if nobody watches a video, it is seeded by the server (through
 161     [WebSeed protocol](http://www.bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0019.html)) where the
 162     video was uploaded.
 163
 164 Here are some simple schemes:
 165
 166 <p align="center">
 167
 168 <img src="https://lutim.cpy.re/6Qut3ure.png" alt="Decentralized" />
 169
 170 <img src="https://lutim.cpy.re/NvRAcv6U.png" alt="Watch a video" />
 171
 172 <img src="https://lutim.cpy.re/pqKm3Q5S.png" alt="Watch a P2P video" />
 173
 174 </p>
 175
 176 ## License
 177
 178 Copyright (C) 2018 PeerTube Contributors
 179
 180 This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
 181 it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published
 182 by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
 183 (at your option) any later version.
 184
 185 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
 186 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
 187 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
 188 GNU Affero General Public License for more details.
 189
 190 You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License
 191 along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.