If you are a content creator on DTube, or just a casual viewer on the platform, it is common to have difficulties playing old videos. As DTube mentioned, they delete old videos off their servers to save disk space, so if your video is not elsewhere in the IPFS network, your video will not be playable. Therefore, I had to come up with a brand new product to make hosting videos on IPFS easier.
So I decided to write a Discord bot myself from scratch to grab the IPFS hash of the video, using that to download the video from DTube’s servers then pin it to the IPFS node so that the video is available outside DTube’s servers so if DTube decides to delete your video, or their servers go down, your video will still be playable!
Links
DTube IPFS Bot GitHub repo: https://github.com/techcoderx/DTube-IPFS-Bot
DTube IPFS Bot first announcement post: https://steempeak.com/utopian-io/@techcoderx/new-discord-bot-to-pin-dtube-videos-to-ipfs-node
DTube IPFS Bot update v1.1: https://steempeak.com/onelovedtube/@techcoderx/dtube-ipfs-discord-bot-v1-1-whitelisting-system-silent-mode-and-more
DTube IPFS Bot update v1.2: https://steempeak.com/onelovedtube/@techcoderx/quick-update-on-dtube-ipfs-discord-bot-now-it-pins-files-immediately-after-downloading
Misc
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