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  "generatedAt": "2026-11-03T22:49:39.280Z",
  "listing": {
    "slug": "chocobozzz--peertube",
    "name": "PeerTube",
    "tagline": "Federated self-hosted video platform with live streaming, an OpenAPI REST API, and peertube-cli.",
    "shortTagline": "Federated video platform",
    "description": "Framasoft's ActivityPub video platform: upload, transcode, live stream, moderate, and federate from your own server. Everything the web client does goes through the documented REST API, and configuration is a production.yaml file.",
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      "YouTube",
      "Vimeo"
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    "executionModel": "deterministic",
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      "database": [
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        "Redis"
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      "hostingTarget": [
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        "Docker",
        "YunoHost"
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        "url": "https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube",
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        "name": "PeerTube",
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        "stars": 15297,
        "lastCommit": "2026-08-28"
      }
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      "url": "https://docs.joinpeertube.org/api-rest-reference.html",
      "official": true,
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        "job": "Upload and import videos",
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      },
      {
        "job": "Manage channels and playlists",
        "reachable": true,
        "evidence": "REST API video-channels and video-playlists sections"
      },
      {
        "job": "Create and manage live streams",
        "reachable": true,
        "evidence": "REST API videos/live; README: permanent live streams supported"
      },
      {
        "job": "Moderate: abuses, blocklists, comments",
        "reachable": true,
        "evidence": "REST API abuses and server blocklist sections"
      },
      {
        "job": "Manage users and registrations",
        "reachable": true,
        "evidence": "REST API users section"
      },
      {
        "job": "Follow and unfollow other instances",
        "reachable": true,
        "evidence": "REST API server following; docs admin/following-instances"
      },
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        "job": "Change instance configuration at runtime",
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        "evidence": "REST API config/custom writes local-production.json, reloaded on the fly"
      },
      {
        "job": "Install plugins and themes",
        "reachable": true,
        "evidence": "REST API plugins section (admin)"
      },
      {
        "job": "Run remote transcoding runners",
        "reachable": true,
        "evidence": "REST API runners section"
      },
      {
        "job": "Serve video P2P to viewers",
        "reachable": false,
        "evidence": "Browser-side WebRTC behavior; no API action, it is a viewer feature"
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      "paths": [],
      "install": null,
      "note": "No SKILL.md, Claude Code plugin, or skills install target in the repo."
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      "summary": "Copy config/production.yaml.example to config/production.yaml and set webserver, database, redis, smtp, transcoding, live, and storage. Docker deployments override with PEERTUBE_* variables. Runtime settings land in config/local-production.json through the admin UI or API. Plugins and themes extend behavior without forking.",
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        "NODE_ENV",
        "NODE_CONFIG_DIR",
        "FFMPEG_PATH",
        "FFPROBE_PATH",
        "YOUTUBE_DL_DOWNLOAD_BEARER_TOKEN",
        "HTTP_PROXY",
        "HTTPS_PROXY"
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        "config/default.yaml",
        "config/local-production.json"
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      "promptFiles": [],
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      "editCount": 12
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      "I need to host training or community video on my own domain with an API my agent can upload to",
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    "accounts": [],
    "active": true,
    "lastActivity": "2026-08-28",
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      "AGPL-3.0; modifications to a public instance must be published",
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      "YAML config is read at start; restart after edits"
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      "operable": 3
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      "formFactor": "README: web platform, Angular client, server on any OS",
      "executionModel": "no model at runtime; ffmpeg transcoding",
      "operability": "OpenAPI schema at support/doc/api/openapi.yaml and docs.joinpeertube.org/api-rest-reference.html, published by the PeerTube project",
      "effort": "docs.joinpeertube.org/maintain/configuration: production.yaml overrides default.yaml; PEERTUBE_* env for Docker",
      "editions": "README license section: AGPL-3.0; no paid edition",
      "active": "GitHub pushedAt 2026-08-28; release v8.2.4 2026-08-04"
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      "editions": 0.99
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    ],
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        "url": "https://joinpeertube.org/",
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        "url": "https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube",
        "foundBy": "sourcing:video-streaming:curated"
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        "url": "https://docs.joinpeertube.org/maintain/configuration",
        "foundBy": "analysis"
      }
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      "disputed": []
    },
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    "paid": false,
    "source": "research/verified/chocobozzz--peertube.json"
  }
}