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About Rapidbay

Self-hosted torrent videostreaming service/torrent client that allows searching and playing videos from torrents in the browser or from a Chromecast/AppleTV/Smart TV.

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RapidBay

Rapid bay is a self hosted video service/torrent client that makes playing videos from torrents as easy as:

Opening the webapp on a phone/laptop/tablet/smartTV.
Searching for content.
Selecting desired video file.
Waiting for Download/Conversion.
Playing on the device or cast to AppleTV/Chromecast

Features:

Uses Jackett as a search backend.
Pick individual video files you want to play and the system takes care of the rest to make it streamable.
Automatic download of Closed Captions/Subtitles
Automatically converts the video file and subtitles to be playable on all browsers/chromecast/appletv
Automatically converts audio that is unsupported by browsers to AAC
Allows registering as a handler for any magnet link
Automatically cleans up disk space so you don't need to manage it yourself
Kodi support

Demo:

Setting up Jackett as a search backend:

Rapidbay requires the torrent indexer Jackett for searching. Have a look here on how to set it up using Docker.

There's also a docker-compose example file to show how you can connect rapidbay and jackett together.

Running:

Requires Docker

docker run -p 5000:5000 -e JACKETT_HOST="http://your.jacket.host" -e JACKETT_API_KEY="YourAPIKey" hauxir/rapidbay

App will be running at http://localhost:5000

Configuring which subtitles to download:

The default setting downloads english subtitles.

Add the env variable SUBTITLE_LANGUAGES to your docker params like so to get more languages:

-e SUBTITLE_LANGUAGES="['en', 'de', 'es']"

Require a password:

Add the env variable PASSWORD to your docker params like so to prompt for a password when opening rapidbay:

-e PASSWORD=YOURPASSWORD

Registering as a handler for any magnet link:

Go to https://\<RAPIDBAY_HOST>/registerHandler and it should prompt you to register your running RapidBay instance as a default handler for torrent links on any torrent site!
You can also copy/paste a magnet link directly into the search bar to open magnet links manually.

Developing

Requires Docker + docker-compose

docker-compose up

Running RapidBay on a VPS

Setting RapidBay up on a VPS and tunnel torrent traffic through NordVPN

Using Kodi as a frontend

Setting up Rapidbay with Kodi

Using Real Debrid caching

You can speed up downloads by using the torrent cache at real debrid
To do that set the env variables RD_DEVICE_CODE, RD_CLIENT_ID and RD_CLIENT_SECRET