path: root/support/doc/import-videos.md

# Import videos guide

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.  
Be sure you own the videos or have the author's authorization to do so.

 - [Installation](#installation)
 - [Usage](#usage)

## Installation

## Prerequisites

You need at least 512MB RAM to run the script.  
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.  

### Dependencies

 * [PeerTube dependencies](dependencies.md)

### Installation

Clone the PeerTube repo to get the latest version:

```
git clone https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube.git
CLONE="$(pwd)/PeerTube"
```

Run ``yarn install``
```
cd ${CLONE}
yarn install
```

Build server tools:
```
cd ${CLONE}
npm run build:server
```


## Usage

You are now ready to run the script : 

```
cd ${CLONE}
node dist/server/tools/import-video.js -u "PEERTUBE_URL" -U "PEERTUBE_USER" --password "PEERTUBE_PASSWORD" -t "TARGET_URL"
```

 * PEERTUBE_URL : the full URL of your PeerTube server where you want to import, eg: https://peertube.cpy.re/
 * PEERTUBE_USER : your PeerTube account where videos will be uploaded
 * PEERTUBE_PASSWORD : password of your PeerTube account
 * TARGET_URL : the target url you want to import. Examples:
   * YouTube:
     * Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/ChannelId
     * User https://www.youtube.com/c/UserName or https://www.youtube.com/user/UserName
     * Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blabla
   * Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/xxxxxx
   * Dailymotion: https://www.dailymotion.com/xxxxx

 The script will get all public videos from Youtube, download them and upload to PeerTube.  
 Already downloaded videos will not be uploaded twice, so you can run and re-run the script in case of crash, disconnection...