Sepia Search

Short description: Search engine for PeerTube videos

Sepia Search

Francophone version of Sepia Search (March 2021)
Type of site	Search engine
Available in	Multilingual
Founded	September 2020 (2020-09)
Headquarters	Lyon , France
Area served	Worldwide
Owner	Framasoft
Website	sepiasearch.org
Advertising	No ads
Registration	Optional (required to upload)
Launched	September 2020
Current status	Active

Sepia, the PeerTube mascot created by David Revoy

Sepia Search is a video search engine for PeerTube. It is developed by the France association Framasoft.

Overview

Sepia Search was launched in September 2020, by the Framasoft association, to serve as a single portal to search for video on hundreds of PeerTube instances.

However, according to the association, this portal is not intended to be exhaustive or to centralise research on all bodies:

“ Notre objectif, avec Sepia Search, n’est pas de présenter l’intégralité de ces contenus. Nous voulons simplement vous montrer l’espace d’autonomie qu’ouvre PeerTube, en respectant les valeurs de transparence, d’ouverture et de liberté que nous défendons depuis plus de 16 ans. ”

Timeline

The instance search capacity of the Sepia Search portal has grown from around 500 PeerTube instances in September 2020 to almost 800 instances listed in March 2021.

Operation

For any keyword, the service returns results found on all the federated instances.

For a more specific query, it is possible to apply a sorting according to: 1) the date of publication, 2) the video duration or 3) by filtering contents considered sensitive.

The look and feel of this portal is therefore deliberately similar to that of other video platforms for the general public such as Dailymotion, YouTube or Youku.

This service is based on two complementary elements:

• a search engine (the Sepia Search source code is hosted by framagit and is accessible to all);
• a JavaScript software, serving as a presentation interface for the page (search bar, processing of the request and results display, specifying the name of the instance to which the user goes when he or she clicks on "see this video").

See also

• Fediverse — a federation of decentralised services to which PeerTube belongs
• Mastodon — leading microblogging software using ActivityPub, interoperable with PeerTube
• Dailymotion
• Vimeo
• Youku
• Social Web

External links

• Instances — by Framasoft
• Serveur de démonstration
• Statistiques du réseau PeerTube — vu de Framasoft
• Statistiques du réseau PeerTube — vu de the-federation.info