peertubeclient.rb

# dependencies: sudo gem install httparty pp

require 'httparty'
require 'pp'
require 'net/http'
require 'uri'
require 'dotenv/load'
require 'httmultiparty'

module PeerTube

  class Client

    def initialize

      # Assign data from the .env file to instance variables

      @domain = ENV['DOMAIN']
      @username = ENV['USERNAME']
      @password = ENV['PASSWORD']
      @url = "#{@domain}/api/v1/"

      # Initialization routine:

      puts "Authenticating..."

      get_client_tokens

    end

    def get_client_tokens

      path = "#{@url}oauth-clients/local" # build the URL to the API endpoint
      response = HTTParty.get(path) # send a 'get' request to that URL
      data = response.parsed_response # parse the response into usable data
      pp data # just prints the tokens to console
      get_client_bearer(data) # triggers the function below and passes it the above response's data

    end

    def get_client_bearer(client_keys)

      @client_id = client_keys["client_id"] # add the response's client_id as a local variable
      @client_secret = client_keys["client_secret"]
      path = "#{@url}users/token"

      options = { :body =>
          {
        "client_id" => @client_id,
        "client_secret" => @client_secret,
        "grant_type" => "password",
        "password" => ENV['PASSWORD'], # load the PASSWORD variable from the .env file
        "response_type" => "code",
        "username" => ENV['USERNAME']
          }
      }

      response = HTTParty.post(path, options)
      data = response.parsed_response # retrieve the bearer token...
      @bearer = data["access_token"]  # ... and save it to a local variable

    end

    def get_a_channel_id

      path = "#{@url}/accounts/#{ENV['USERNAME']}"
      response = HTTParty.get(path)
      id = response.parsed_response["uuid"]

    end

    def get_own_user_data

        path = "#{@url}/users/me"
        data = { :headers => { "Authorization" => "Bearer #{@bearer}" },
                 :body => {} }
        response = HTTParty.get(path, data)

    end

    def get_own_channel_id

        id = get_own_user_data
        id["id"]

    end

    def upload_video(filename, title)

        path = "#{@url}/videos/upload"
        id = get_own_channel_id
        auth = "Bearer #{@bearer}"

        options = {
            "videofile" => File.open(filename),
            "channelId" => "596242b9-519c-4c7d-918a-506764704f5a",
            "name" => title
        }

        response = HTTParty.post(path, :headers => {"Authorization" => auth, "Content-Type" => "multipart/form-data"}, :body => options)
        pp response.parsed_response
    end

  end

end


### COMMANDS

## make a new object to interface with PeerTube

peertube = PeerTube::Client.new

## upload the file specified at the first argument, and name it the second argument:

peertube.upload_video("/home/benjamin/Downloads/1.webm", "API Test at #{Time.now}")