[Torrent-Tube](https://github.com/dessalines/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.](https://github.com/TheFrenchGhosty/TheFrenchGhostys-Ultimate-YouTube-DL-Scripts-Collection)
- 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](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
](lemmy.dbzer0.com/c/torrenttube)
[Torrent-Tube Search](https://dessalines.github.io/torrent-tube/)
[Torrents-CSV Search](https://torrents-csv.com/)
# 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)-
Torrent-Tube