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PeerTube
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Federated (ActivityPub) video streaming platform using P2P (BitTorrent)
directly in the web browser with <a href="https://github.com/feross/webtorrent">WebTorrent</a>.
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**PeerTube is developed by [Framasoft](https://framasoft.org/?l=en), a non-profit
that promotes and spreads free culture in general, and free-libre software in
particular. If you want to support this project, please [consider
donating to them](https://soutenir.framasoft.org/en/).**
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<strong>Client</strong>
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<a href="https://david-dm.org/Chocobozzz/PeerTube?path=client">
<img src="https://david-dm.org/Chocobozzz/PeerTube.svg?path=client" alt="Dependency Status" />
</a>
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<img src="https://david-dm.org/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/dev-status.svg?path=client" alt="devDependency Status" />
</a>
<img src="http://lutim.cpy.re/js3rkfIc.png" alt="Browser Stack" />
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<strong>Server</strong>
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<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>
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<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>
<a href="https://kiwiirc.com/client/irc.freenode.net/#peertube">
<img src="https://img.shields.io/badge/%23peertube-on%20freenode-brightgreen.svg" alt="PeerTube Freenode IRC" />
</a>
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<a href="https://peertube.cpy.re">
<img src="https://lutim.cpy.re/mRdBAdeD.png" alt="screenshot" />
</a>
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<strong><a title="Website" target="_blank" href="https://joinpeertube.org">Website</a> |
<a title="Instances list" target="_blank" href="https://instances.joinpeertube.org">Instances list</a>
</strong>
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## Demonstration
Want to see it in action?
* Demonstration servers:
* [peertube.cpy.re](http://peertube.cpy.re)
* [peertube2.cpy.re](http://peertube2.cpy.re)
* [peertube3.cpy.re](http://peertube3.cpy.re)
* [Video](https://peertube.cpy.re/videos/watch/f78a97f8-a142-4ce1-a5bd-154bf9386504)
to see what the "decentralization feature" looks like
* [Video](https://peertube.cpy.re/videos/watch/da2b08d4-a242-4170-b32a-4ec8cbdca701) to see
the communication between PeerTube and [Mastodon](https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon)
## Why
We can't build a FOSS video streaming alternatives to YouTube, Dailymotion,
Vimeo... with a 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 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, as of today.
## Dependencies
* nginx
* PostgreSQL
* Redis
* **NodeJS >= 8.x**
* yarn
* OpenSSL (cli)
* **FFmpeg >= 3.x**
## Run using Docker
See the [docker guide](/support/doc/docker.md)
## Production
See the [production guide](/support/doc/production.md).
## Contributing/Test
See the [contributing
guide](/.github/CONTRIBUTING.md)
to see how to test or contribute to PeerTube. Spoiler alert: you don't need to be a
coder to help!
## API REST documentation
Quick Start: [/support/doc/api/quickstart.md](/support/doc/api/quickstart.md)
Endpoints documentation:
* 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)
* Swagger/OpenAPI schema: [/support/doc/api/openapi.yaml](/support/doc/api/openapi.yaml)
## Tools
* [Import videos (YouTube, Dailymotion, Vimeo...)](/support/doc/tools.md)
* [Upload videos from the CLI](/support/doc/tools.md)
## FAQ
If you have a question, please try to find the answer in the [FAQ](/FAQ.md) first.
## Architecture
See [ARCHITECTURE.md](/ARCHITECTURE.md) for a more detailed explanation.
### 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, query where the
torrent URI of this specific video is...).
* If a user uploads a video, the server seeds it and sends its followers some
metadata (name, short description, torrent URI...).
* 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:
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<img src="https://lutim.cpy.re/6Qut3ure.png" alt="Decentralized" />
<img src="https://lutim.cpy.re/NvRAcv6U.png" alt="Watch a video" />
<img src="https://lutim.cpy.re/pqKm3Q5S.png" alt="Watch a P2P video" />
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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/>.
