SeedTuber

Seed your PeerTube live streams locally or anywhere in the world!

🚨 🚨 THIS IS A WORK IN PROGRESS 🚨 🚨

TO-DO:

1. Set proper pause timing for calling the API
2. Reduce the size of the docker image
3. Setup testing
4. Add metrics and logging

Usage

Docker Compose

version: "3.3"

services:
  peertube-seeder:
    image: ghcr.io/cgbassplayer/seedtuber:latest
    environment:
      peertube_url: "https://jupiter.tube/"
      ping_interval: 300
      browser_limit: 5
    restart: unless-stopped

Docker CLI

docker run -d \
  --name seedtuber
  -e peertube_url="https://jupiter.tube/" \
  -e ping_interval=300 \
  -e browser_limit=5 \
  --restart=unless-stopped \
  ghcr.io/cgbassplayer/seedtuber:latest

Parameters

Parameter	Function	Default
peertube_url	URL of the PeerTube instance that you want to seed	https://jupiter.tube
ping_interval	The time between checking for live videos (in seconds)	300
browser_limit	The maximum number of browser instances you can run. If this value is set to 0, this process can run up to 100 live streams at the same time	5

More information about these parameters can be seen in the documentation

Updating

Via Docker Compose

1. Update all images: docker-compose pull
2. Let compose update container as necessary: docker-compose up -d
3. You can also remove the old dangling images: docker image prune

Via Docker CLI

1. Update the image: docker pull ghcr.io/cgbassplayer/seedtuber:latest
2. Stop the running container: docker stop seedtuber
3. Delete the container: docker rm seedtuber
4. Recreate a new container with the same docker run parameters as instructed above
5. You can also remove the old dangling images: docker image prune