Torrent-Tube

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Torrent-Tube is a set of tools to help decentralize YouTube videos, by moving them to torrents, which can be shared by many people. It includes:

A Torrent-Tube search site which searches the Torrents-csv search engine to see if the given YouTube video already exists, and is being seeded.
- It does this by extracting the YouTube [VIDEO_ID] from a link, which you can also do manually if you like (IE, the text after watch?v=...).
A script to check for previously made torrents, and if there are none, then download, and create torrent files from YouTube videos, with a uniform naming style and format, taken from TheFrenchGhosty’s YouTube-DL-Scripts.
You will need to upload these torrent files yourself to a service (details below), and seed them.
You can also post these videos to lemmy.dbzer0.com/c/torrenttube, with the magnet link as the URL, and a webp video thumbnail contained in the videos/MY_VIDEO folder.

lemmy.dbzer0.com Torrent-Tube community

Torrent-Tube Search

Torrents-CSV Search

Future plans

Create a browser plugin that checks a video link that you’re currently watching for existing torrents.
Create a UI for viewing these additions. (The lemmy.dbzer0.com community works for now)-

founded 2 months ago

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cm0002@lemmy.dbzer0.com

What is Torrent-Tube? (github.com)

submitted 2 months ago by cm0002@toast.ooo to c/torrenttube@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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Torrent-Tube is a set of tools to help decentralize YouTube videos, by moving them to torrents, which can be shared by many people. It includes:

A Torrent-Tube search site which searches the Torrents-csv search engine to see if the given YouTube video already exists, and is being seeded.

It does this by extracting the YouTube [VIDEO_ID] from a link, which you can also do manually if you like (IE, the text after watch?v=...).

A script to check for previously made torrents, and if there are none, then download, and create torrent files from YouTube videos, with a uniform naming style and format, taken from TheFrenchGhosty's YouTube-DL-Scripts.

You will need to upload these torrent files yourself to a service (details below), and seed them.

You can also post these videos to lemmy.dbzer0.com/c/torrenttube, with the magnet link as the URL, and a webp video thumbnail contained in the videos/MY_VIDEO folder.

lemmy.dbzer0.com Torrent-Tube community

Torrent-Tube Search

Torrents-CSV Search

Future plans

Create a browser plugin that checks a video link that you're currently watching for existing torrents.

Create a UI for viewing these additions. (The lemmy.dbzer0.com community works for now)

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[–] hoch@lemmy.world -5 points 2 months ago (2 children)

[–] diffaldo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 months ago

Say what you want about the devs but at least they dont bake their opinions into code.

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You do know this is made by the lead dev of Lemmy, right? And that you're posting from lemmy.world, right?

If you truly feel that way, piefed is right over there man. I'll warn you though, the lead dev of piefed doesn't even attempt to keep their personal opinions out of it.

[–] hoch@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yes, I unfortunately became aware of that only after I signed up. My favorite Reddit app migrated to Lemmy and that's how I got here. I've been wanting to switch to another platform... I almost created a piefed account, but didn't like the censorship and reputation system.

[–] IndustryStandard@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Alright buddy, welcome to Torrent-Tube as well then.