Hugo Peertube Shortcode

This is a shortcode include videos hosted on any Peertube instance.

Peertube is a decentralized and federated video streaming and hosting platform: using ActivityPub protocol for federation and P2P directly in the web browser for distributed downloading of data.

At this point this shortcode is early beta and was only tested localy with Hugo 0.76.0, last Firefox and Chrome on MacOS, and with video from various instance of Peertube.

Install

Just copy the peertube.html file in the layouts/shortcodes/ directory at the root of your Hugo site. You have to create the layouts and shortcodes directories if they does not exist. You can learn more about shortcodes from Hugo documentation.

That’s all Folks.

Usage

Insert the Shortcode in your Markdown content…

Simplified syntax
Easy to use, but only default options.

{{< peertube vidcommons.org a547c41d-3f0e-4689-bb1c-44d533d16397 >}}

Complete syntax
Give access to the complete set of options avaible for Peertube iframe.

{{< peertube host="indymotion.fr" id="a11de1b8-dbb2-4cef-9b1d-3f01e0af8425" title="0" >}}
Params Comments Default
host Domain Name of instance: without https:// nor training slatch (/) None
id Identification Code of the video (ex: d49f95a9-b183-4f16-9341-8637ac3597ff) None
title Display the video Title: 0 (no) or 1 (yes) 0
warning Display a Warning about privacy: 0 (no) or 1 (yes) 0
subtitle Display the video subtitle if exist: langage code (ex: fr) 0

Note: The default options are hard coded, if you want du change, you have to modify the source.

Privacy

1) Peertube by itself use absolutely no cookies, no trackers.

2) The uses the BitTorrent P2P protocol to share bandwidth between users by default to help lower the load on the server induce that your IP address is being stored in the instance’s BitTorrent tracker as long as you download or watch the video For more info read this Peertube statement.

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Thank you, I have been happily using your shortcode for a few months. Is there a way to embed Peertube Playlists?