tools.md

CLI tools guide

• Installation
• Usage
  • import-videos.js
  • upload.js

Installation

Prerequisites

You need at least 512MB RAM to run the script. Scripts can be launched directly from a PeerTube server, or from a separate server, even a desktop PC.

Dependencies

Install the PeerTube dependencies.

Installation

Clone the PeerTube repo to get the latest version (even if you are on your PeerTube server):

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

Tools

import-videos.js

You can use this script to import videos from all supported sites of youtube-dl into PeerTube.
Be sure you own the videos or have the author's authorization to do so.

cd ${CLONE}
node dist/server/tools/import-videos.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...

upload.js

You can use this script to import videos directly from the CLI.

cd ${CLONE}
node dist/server/tools/upload.js --help