PeerTube CLI

girish

@imc67 I thought the CLI was something that we install on the desktop and not the server itself? Are you looking to automate something via the CLI + cron ? That might need some specialized package support. Let me know your use case so I can fix up the package accordingly.

imc67

@girish I was thinking about this for example: https://docs.joinpeertube.org/#/maintain-tools?id=peertube-import-videosjs

It must be possible to install it on a different server but it's rather download 1TB of YT videos to 'a server' and upload it again to the PeerTube app. That's why I thought about having CLI in the app.

There is also an example of Cron jobs, is that possible in the app?

girish

@imc67 I wonder if we should talk to the upstream project on providing CLI as a separate release package. There is some discussion at https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/issues/2347 . Should we leave a note there and see what he says?

girish

I managed to get the CLI installed but installing plugins is still a mystery. This is because the CLI can only be installed by cd into the CLI workdir. And then to install it has to somehow install into the release package. Not sure how this is done.

imc67

Hi @girish , I discovered PeerTube since it was announced here and was very enthusiastic because it fits in our needs. However during the past 6 weeks I'm beginning to loose faith in this project.

The project has a very slow "beat", they write they have only 1 (paid) developer. We had to wait 5 weeks to get an essential bug (not able to config) solved. After your last update it looked fine and I started to setup everything but then discovered a "stupid" bug again: videos don't play on iPad (https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/issues/2941)! The developer knows this for at least 3 weeks but there seems no investigation/progress. Most of our viewers use iPad so we can't start (again) ...
There is also a very annoying issue that themes are alternating switching during browsing, so 1 click you're in dark mode and the next one in light mode (https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/issues/3007). Beside that there are 350 other open issues ...

I spent hours to find an alternative (I know Cloudron always have two apps of the same "kind") and found: https://platform.avideo.com/AVideo_OpenSource (https://github.com/WWBN/AVideo/blob/master/README.md) I will create an App request with this info.

Kind regards,

Marcel.

imc67

@imc67 said in PeerTube CLI:

I will create an App request with this info.

https://forum.cloudron.io/topic/2944/avideo-platform

girish

@imc67 They seem to have fixed the iPad issue - https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/commit/b6a8cfc5714c93d0ecf6154e5d3a25b33b50b8cd

imc67

@girish this morning they released 2.4.0 adding many features and solving even more bugs of which 2 of them where blocking for us

girish

@imc67 Yup, got a notification for it, very nice!

girish

@imc67 BTW, did you manage to import your videos or is it in hold?

imc67

@girish I uploaded (via YT URL) 1 video just to test. Then discovered the, for us blocking issues and since then waiting for the update.

However, I remember that importing a YT playlist by URL didn’t seem to work (nothing happened). So I really prefer a build in CLI to do this.

imc67

@imc67 said in PeerTube CLI:

@girish this morning they released 2.4.0 adding many features and solving even more bugs of which 2 of them where blocking for us

Friendly reminder

girish

@imc67 Noted I will get to this next week though since we are rolling out 5.6 this week. But I am very interested in getting that app to stable state asap.

rmdes

Also interested in the cli to be able to relaunch transcoding jobs

example :
sudo -u peertube NODE_CONFIG_DIR=/var/www/peertube/config NODE_ENV=production npm run create-transcoding-job -- --generate-hls -v c249320b-5263-4b2b-b1e8-14d07403079c

from : https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/issues/3121

imc67

@girish friendly reminder

girish

@imc67 I pushed a new package with youtube-dl and the CLI installed. Do you require the cron support?

imc67

I tried (in the 0.7 version) the following command:

sudo -u root NODE_CONFIG_DIR=/var/www/peertube/config NODE_ENV=production npm run create-transcoding-job -- -v b8b791eb-9e38-4c4f-b797-0347662bb45f

but this error returns:

sudo: npm: command not found

Is the path in the command ok?

nebulon

peertube as many other apps should ideally run with the cloudron user, so maybe try that user instead of root.

imc67

@nebulon same result

sudo -u cloudron NODE_CONFIG_DIR=/var/www/peertube/config NODE_ENV=production npm run create-transcoding-job -- -v db21c654-6ca3-470e-b6a0-0f31bbcb3c37
sudo: npm: command not found

nebulon

Ah sudo apparently does not carry over the env bits for this. So instead use gosu cloudron:cloudron npm ... that should do.

imc67

@nebulon said in PeerTube CLI:

gosu cloudron:cloudron

getting one step closer but still an error:

gosu cloudron:cloudron NODE_CONFIG_DIR=/var/www/peertube/config NODE_ENV=production npm run create-transcoding-job -- -v db21c654-6ca3-470e-b6a0-0f31bbcb3c37
error: exec: "NODE_CONFIG_DIR=/var/www/peertube/config": stat NODE_CONFIG_DIR=/var/www/peertube/config: no such file or directory

nebulon

NODE_CONFIG_DIR is already properly set in the environment pointing to /app/code/server/config so remove that from your commandline.

imc67

@nebulon again one step closer, but...

/app/code/server# gosu cloudron:cloudron NODE_ENV=production npm run create-transcoding-job -- -v db21c654-6ca3-470e-b6a0-0f31bbcb3c37
error: exec: "NODE_ENV=production": executable file not found in $PATHwith the current size.

girish

All my docs go unread it's just peertube

nebulon

Oh haha, great https://docs.cloudron.io/apps/peertube/

imc67

@girish stupid me!

rmdes

it seems to work here :

and transcoding works too :

the "solution" is to disable HLS

Requires ffmpeg >= 4.1

Generate HLS playlists and fragmented MP4 files resulting in a better playback than with the current default player:

Resolution change is smoother
Faster playback in particular with long videos
More stable playback (less bugs/infinite loading)

If you also enabled WebTorrent support, it will multiply videos storage by 2

robi

@rmdes HLS seems to be messy.

is ffmpeg not >=4.1 by default?

does HLS being enabled mean the fragmented MP4 and original are in place? That already means 2x the original.

What is it about WebTorrent that 2x that even more?

rmdes

@robi I have no idea about all 3 questions

rmdes

Fresh update with the latest version on a fresh cloudron :

when I follow the doc here : https://docs.cloudron.io/apps/peertube/ to import a video from cli
I get

peertube import --url https://domain.com --username user --password bloodypass --target-url https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxxx --tmpdir /tmp

the shell returns this :
--username field is required
--password field is required

Anything changed perhaps for the cli & latest peertube version ?

rmdes

So the peertube cli has now a neat feature to remember instances it is being used to upload from the cli :

peertube auth :

add [options] remember your accounts on remote instances for easier use
del <url> unregisters a remote instance
list lists registered remote instances
set-default <url> set an existing entry as default
help [command] display help for command

Examples:

$ peertube auth add -u https://peertube.cpy.re -U "PEERTUBE_USER" --password "PEERTUBE_PASSWORD"
$ peertube auth add -u https://peertube.cpy.re -U root
$ peertube auth list
$ peertube auth del https://peertube.cpy.re

When I try to use it, I get this :

node:internal/process/promises:246
          triggerUncaughtException(err, true /* fromPromise */);
          ^

[Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, mkdir '/root/.config'] {
  errno: -2,
  code: 'ENOENT',
  syscall: 'mkdir',
  path: '/root/.config'
}

nebulon

@rmdes looks like it now requires a config file. Obviously on Cloudron that path is not writeable. Have you checked if the config file may be specified via environment variable or commandline argument?

rmdes

@nebulon I tried to find this information but up to now I have nothing

rmdes

@nebulon from what I can see here : https://docs.joinpeertube.org/maintain-tools?id=remote-tools
or better here : https://docs.joinpeertube.org/maintain-tools?id=server-tools

There is nothing that indicate how to specify this on the command line.

robi

@rmdes is there a -C option?

girish

Just debugged this a bit . It seems the CLI uses application-config npm package which writes configs to https://www.npmjs.com/package/application-config#config-location .

girish

@rmdes it seems the CLI is broken: upstream issue is https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/issues/4858 . I will make a new package with the patch since it makes the CLI unusable without it.

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