support/doc/import-videos.md

   1 # Import videos guide
   2
   3 You can use this script to import videos from all [supported sites of youtube-dl](https://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/supportedsites.html) into PeerTube.
   4 Be sure you own the videos or have the author's authorization to do so.
   5
   6  - [Installation](#installation)
   7  - [Usage](#usage)
   8
   9 ## Installation
  10
  11 ## Prerequisites
  12
  13 You need at least 512MB RAM to run the script.
  14 Importation can be launched directly from a PeerTube server (in this case you already have dependencies installed :+1:) or from a separate server, even a dekstop PC.
  15
  16 ### Dependencies
  17
  18  * [PeerTube dependencies](dependencies.md)
  19
  20 ### Installation
  21
  22 Clone the PeerTube repo to get the latest version:
  23
  24 ```
  25 git clone https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube.git
  26 CLONE="$(pwd)/PeerTube"
  27 ```
  28
  29 Run ``yarn install``
  30 ```
  31 cd ${CLONE}
  32 yarn install
  33 ```
  34
  35 Build server tools:
  36 ```
  37 cd ${CLONE}
  38 npm run build:server
  39 ```
  40
  41
  42 ## Usage
  43
  44 You are now ready to run the script :
  45
  46 ```
  47 cd ${CLONE}
  48 node dist/server/tools/import-video.js -u "PEERTUBE_URL" -U "PEERTUBE_USER" --password "PEERTUBE_PASSWORD" -t "TARGET_URL"
  49 ```
  50
  51  * PEERTUBE_URL : the full URL of your PeerTube server where you want to import, eg: https://peertube.cpy.re/
  52  * PEERTUBE_USER : your PeerTube account where videos will be uploaded
  53  * PEERTUBE_PASSWORD : password of your PeerTube account
  54  * TARGET_URL : the target url you want to import. Examples:
  55    * YouTube:
  56      * Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/ChannelId
  57      * User https://www.youtube.com/c/UserName or https://www.youtube.com/user/UserName
  58      * Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blabla
  59    * Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/xxxxxx
  60    * Dailymotion: https://www.dailymotion.com/xxxxx
  61
  62  The script will get all public videos from Youtube, download them and upload to PeerTube.
  63  Already downloaded videos will not be uploaded twice, so you can run and re-run the script in case of crash, disconnection...