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from $0.35 / 1,000 videos

PeerTube Instance Harvester

Point at any PeerTube instance and export its videos, channels and instance metadata from the public /api/v1 REST API. Federated, self-hosted YouTube alternative — one actor over thousands of instances.

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from $0.35 / 1,000 videos

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Datamule

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You can access the PeerTube Instance Harvester programmatically from your own applications by using the Apify API. You can also choose the language preference from below. To use the Apify API, you’ll need an Apify account and your API token, found in Integrations settings in Apify Console.

Python

JavaScript

CLI

OpenAPI

HTTP

MCP

1from apify_client import ApifyClient
2
3# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
4# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
5client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")
6
7# Prepare the Actor input
8run_input = {
9    "instanceUrl": "https://framatube.org",
10    "maxRecords": 25,
11}
12
13# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
14run = client.actor("datamule/peertube-instance-harvester").call(run_input=run_input)
15
16# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
17print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"])
18for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
19    print(item)
20
21# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

PeerTube Instance Harvester — any PeerTube API to a dataset API in Python

The Apify API client for Python is the official library that allows you to use PeerTube Instance Harvester API in Python, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.

Install the apify-client

$pip install apify-client

Other API clients include:

PeerTube Instance Harvester API in JavaScript

PeerTube Instance Harvester API through CLI

PeerTube Instance Harvester OpenAPI definition

PeerTube Instance Harvester API

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