Introduction
PeerTube is a free, decentralized and federated video platform developed as an alternative to other platforms that centralize our data and attention, such as YouTube, Dailymotion or Vimeo. :clapper: But one organization hosting PeerTube alone may not have enough money to pay for bandwidth and video storage of its servers, all servers of PeerTube are interoperable as a federated network, and non-PeerTube servers can be part of the larger Vidiverse (federated video network) by talking our implementation of ActivityPub. Video load is reduced thanks to P2P (BitTorrent) in the web browser via WebTorrent.
To learn more, see:
- This two-minute video (hosted on PeerTube) explaining what PeerTube is and how it works
- PeerTube's project homepage, joinpeertube.org
- Demonstration instances:
- This video demonstrating the communication between PeerTube and Mastodon (a decentralized Twitter alternative)
:sparkles: Features
:raised_hands: Contributing
You don't need to be a coder to help!
You can give us your feedback, report bugs, help us translate PeerTube, write documentation, and more. Check out the contributing
guide to know how, it takes less than 2 minutes to get started. :wink:
You can also join the cheerful bunch that makes our community:
- Chat:
- IRC : #peertube on chat.freenode.net:6697
- Matrix (bridged on IRC and Discord) : #peertube:matrix.org
- Forum:
- Framacolibri: https://framacolibri.org/c/peertube
Feel free to reach out if you have any questions or ideas! :speech_balloon:
:package: Create your own instance
Dependencies
- nginx
- PostgreSQL >= 9.6
- Redis >= 2.8.18
- NodeJS >= 10.x
- yarn >= 1.x
- FFmpeg >= 3.x
See the production guide, which is the recommended way to install or upgrade PeerTube. For hardware requirements, see Should I have a big server to run PeerTube? in the FAQ.
See the community packages, which cover various platforms (including YunoHost and Docker).
:book: Documentation
If you have a question, please try to find the answer in the FAQ first.
User documentation
See the user documentation.
Admin documentation
See how to create your own instance.
See the more general admin documentation.
Tools
- Import videos (YouTube, Dailymotion, Vimeo...)
- Upload videos from the CLI
- Admin server tools (create transcoding jobs, prune storage...)
Technical documentation
See the architecture blueprint for a more detailed explanation of the architectural choices.
See our REST API documentation:
- OpenAPI 3.0.0 schema: /support/doc/api/openapi.yaml
- Spec explorer: docs.joinpeertube.org/api-rest-reference.html
See our ActivityPub documentation.
:heart: Supports of our crowdfunding
We have run a crowdfunding campaign to pave the road to the version 1.0.0 of PeerTube. Thanks to everyone who pitched in and shared the news around!
Quonfucius, IP Solution, _Laure_, @lex666, 0x010C, 3dsman, 3rw4n-G3D, aallrd, Abel-Berger, Adam-Odell, adechambost, adim, adngdb, Adrien Thurotte, Adrien-BARAN, Adrien-Hamraoui, Adrien-Horcholle, Adrien-Luxey, Adrien-Polar, Adrien-Touminet, Agathe Begault, Agence-Différente, Ahmed-Al-Ahmed, aiprole, akpoptro, Al-Nimr, Alain-Delgrange, Alain-Fyon, Alain-Girard, Alain-MICHEL, Aleksandar-Aleksandrov, Alex-Chancellé, Alex-Dufournet, Alex-Gleason, Alexander-Murray-Watters, Alexandre-Alapetite, Alexandre-Badez, Alexandre-Giuliani, Alexandre-Mercier, Alexandre-Roux-2, Alexandre-SIMON, Alexandre29, Alexia-Monsavoir, Alexis-Frn, Alexis-Gros, Alexis-Kauffmann, alfajet, Alias, alinemont, Aliocha-Lang, Alllightlong, aloisdg, Amanda Hinault, André-Rabe, Anne-PROTAS, antoine, Antoine Derouin, Antoine-Beauvillain, Antoine-Deléron, antomoro, Antón López, Antonin-DENIS, Antonin-Segault, aokami, Apichat-Apichat, Ar-To, ARIAS-Frédéric-2, ariasuni, Aris-Papathéodorou, Arnaud -Vigoureux , Arnaud-Mounier, 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