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[jibe-b]

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PeerTube is a decentralized videos platform. Having CaptainFacts supporting PeerTube instances would be a plus.

Best solution for this problem

The code of PeerTube is free and open source which should ease the path until the support.

The challenge is that a video does not necessarily have one unique URL. It may be replicated in more than one instance. Hence a need to curate URLs of a unique video.

This feature is not urgent ;)

[Miragide]

Good point, thank @jibe-b
Do you want talk about this with PeerTube community to get help?

[jibe-b]

I will!

[rigelk]

Rather that trying to curate URLs, using the embed library allows to decouple your implementation from the evolving PeerTube platform, so I'd advise you first try that.

[jibe-b]

Thank you @rigelk for answering so quickly, as always with PeerTube :)
@Miragide, do you get the point (I must say I would have to dive in PeerTube's architecture to get @rigelk's point fully)

[Betree]

The main challenge for this is that we can't detect that a video is from Peertube just by looking at its URL. There can also be many Peertube links for the same video, which doesn't work well with our current data model.

That being said, I'd love to see this happen one day.

[Chocobozzz]

Hello,

You can detect a peertube instance using the nodeinfo endpoint: https://peertube2.cpy.re/nodeinfo/2.0.json

Then, the origin video URL can be found using the REST API: https://peertube2.cpy.re/api/v1/videos/d6210593-dbb8-49a0-b4a8-72f03fc550eb (.account.host for example)

[Betree]

Nice, thank you @Chocobozzz!