PeerTube Video Intelligence 📹

Browse, search, and pull channel videos from PeerTube — the open, no-key Fediverse video platform (YouTube alternative). No API key, no proxy.

PeerTube is decentralized video hosting on the Fediverse. This actor gives you clean, structured access to any instance — or the whole network at once:

• 📺 Browse videos — most-viewed / trending / newest on an instance, with views, likes, duration, category.
• 🔎 Search videos — by keyword. Set the instance to sepiasearch.org to search the entire PeerTube network in one run.
• 📁 Channel & account videos — every video from a specific channel or account.

Perfect for video/creator research, content aggregation, media monitoring, and building open-video apps.

Uses PeerTube's public REST API — no key, no login, pure JSON. Works on any instance.

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Modes

• 📺 Videos — browse an instance's videos.
• 🔎 Search — keyword search (network-wide via sepiasearch.org).
• 📁 Channel — a channel's videos.
• 👤 Account — an account's videos.

Features

• ✅ No API key, no proxy — official PeerTube API.
• ✅ Any instance + network-wide search — one actor covers the whole PeerTube network.
• ✅ Rich metadata — views, likes/dislikes, duration, category, language, channel/host.
• ✅ Federated — results span many instances.

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Input

Field	Description
Instance	Instance domain (or sepiasearch.org for network-wide search).
Mode	videos / search / channel / account.
Query	Search text (search mode).
Handle	name@instance (channel/account modes).
Sort	Views / trending / hot / likes / newest / oldest.
NSFW	Exclude / include / only.
Category IDs / Language codes	Filters (videos mode).
Max results	Cap on videos.

Example — network-wide search

{
  "instance": "sepiasearch.org",
  "mode": "search",
  "query": "blender tutorial",
  "sort": "-views"
}

Example — most-viewed Science & Tech videos on an instance

{
  "instance": "framatube.org",
  "mode": "videos",
  "sort": "-views",
  "categoryOneOf": ["15"]
}

Output

{
  "id": 1234,
  "uuid": "9c9de5e8-…",
  "name": "What is PeerTube?",
  "description": "…",
  "duration_seconds": 113,
  "views": 146425,
  "likes": 33,
  "dislikes": 0,
  "category": "Science & Technology",
  "language": "en",
  "channel_display_name": "A propos de PeerTube",
  "channel_host": "framatube.org",
  "account_name": "framasoft",
  "published_at": "2018-10-01T10:00:00Z",
  "thumbnail_url": "https://framatube.org/lazy-static/thumbnails/…",
  "url": "https://framatube.org/videos/watch/9c9de5e8-…",
  "instance": "framatube.org"
}

Run it on a schedule

Track a channel's new uploads or a topic's trending videos over time — pipe to a sheet, database or webhook.

Notes & limitations

• Uses public endpoints — no key.
• Common PeerTube category IDs: 1 Music, 2 Films, 3 Vehicles, 15 Science & Technology, 11 News & Politics, 13 Education, 15 How To.
• sepiasearch.org searches the whole network; a normal instance shows its own + federated content.
• Data source: the queried PeerTube instance(s).

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Keywords

PeerTube, Fediverse, video, YouTube alternative, decentralized video, ActivityPub, video scraper, video search, creator research, media monitoring, open video, channel videos, video metadata, views, SepiaSearch, content aggregation, streaming, self-hosted video, no key, open API.