Scripts can be launched directly from a PeerTube server, or from a separate server, even a desktop PC.
You need to follow all the following steps even if you are on a PeerTube server (including cloning the git repository in a different directory than your production installation because the scripts utilize non-production dependencies).
The wrapper provides a convenient interface to the following scripts.
You can access it as `peertube` via an alias in your `.bashrc` like `alias peertube="cd /your/peertube/directory/ && node ./dist/server/tools/peertube.js"` (you have to keep the `cd` command):
You can use this script to import a video file to replace an already uploaded file or to add a new resolution to a video. PeerTube needs to be running.
The difference with `peertube plugins` CLI is that these scripts can be used even if PeerTube is not running.
If PeerTube is running, you need to restart it for the changes to take effect (whereas with `peertube plugins` CLI, plugins/themes are dynamically loaded on the server).
To install a plugin or a theme from the disk:
```
$ sudo -u peertube NODE_CONFIG_DIR=/var/www/peertube/config NODE_ENV=production npm run npm run plugin:install -- --plugin-path /local/plugin/path
```
From NPM:
```
$ sudo -u peertube NODE_CONFIG_DIR=/var/www/peertube/config NODE_ENV=production npm run npm run plugin:install -- --npm-name peertube-plugin-myplugin
```
To uninstall a plugin or a theme:
```
$ sudo -u peertube NODE_CONFIG_DIR=/var/www/peertube/config NODE_ENV=production npm run npm run plugin:uninstall -- --npm-name peertube-plugin-myplugin
"The default evaluator will, by default, assign the result of the most recently evaluated expression to the special variable `_` (underscore). Explicitly setting `_` to a value will disable this behavior."
- type `.help` to list commands available in the repl, notice it starts with a dot
- type `.exit` to exit, note that you still have to press CTRL-C to actually exit, or press CTRL-C (3 times) without typing `.exit` to exit
- type `context` to list all available objects and libraries in the context, note: `Promise` is also available but it's not listed in the context, in case you need promises for something
- type `env` to see the loaded environment variables
- type `path` to access path library
- type `lodash` to access lodash library
- type `uuidv1` to access uuid/v1 library
- type `uuidv3` to access uuid/v3 library
- type `uuidv4` to access uuid/v4 library
- type `uuidv5` to access uuid/v5 library
- type `YoutubeDL` to access youtube-dl library
- type `cli` to access the cli helpers object
- type `logger` to access the logger; if you log to it, it will write to stdout and to the peertube.log file
- type `constants` to access the constants loaded by the server
- type `coreUtils` to access the core-utils helpers object
- type `ffmpegUtils` to access the ffmpeg-utils helpers object
- type `peertubeCryptoUtils` to access the peertube-crypto helpers object
- type `signupUtils` to access the signup helpers object
- type `utils` to access the utils helpers object
- type `YoutubeDLUtils` to access the youtube-dl helpers object
- type `sequelizeTypescript` to access sequelizeTypescript
- type `modelsUtils` to access the models/utils
- type `models` to access the shortcut to sequelizeTypescript.models
- type `transaction` to access the shortcut to sequelizeTypescript.transaction
- type `query` to access the shortcut to sequelizeTypescript.query
- type `queryInterface` to access the shortcut to sequelizeTypescript.queryInterface
#### .help
```
PeerTube [1.0.0] (b10eb595)> .help
.break Sometimes you get stuck, this gets you out
.clear Break, and also clear the local context
.editor Enter editor mode
.exit Exit the repl
.help Print this help message
.load Load JS from a file into the REPL session
.r Reset REPL
.reset Reset REPL
.save Save all evaluated commands in this REPL session to a file
