README.md

What is this repo?

libDrive is a media library manager, similar to Plex, that organizes Google Drive folders and offers an intuitive interface to explore them

This repositry (https://github.com/libDrive/libDrive) only serves to display the libDrive project. No source code is displayed on this repositry.

Source code:

• To access the source code for the backend visit: https://github.com/libDrive/backend
• To access the source code for the frontend visit: https://github.com/libDrive/frontend

Features supported

• Automatically retreives movie and TV show metadata based on file name
• Movie/TV show synopsis, release date, posters etc. are displayed
• Fast streaming speeds
• User management, to allow multiple accounts
• Search feature to find specific movies/TV shows
• Admin panel UI

To do list

• Add transcoding on server side
• Make backend multithreaded
• Stream videos directly to client rather than through server
• Add custom video player able to play complexly encoded videos on desktop app

Installation

Client side

Use this if a server has already been set up (you have the URL of the libDrive server)

• Windows: To install libDrive download the file titled libDrive_Desktop_win.exe from here
• Linux: To install libDrive download the latest file titled libDrive_Desktop_linux.snap from here

Server side

Prerequisites

• A Google Developers Console API client credentials
  • To make one go to this link
  • Then click the Enable the Drive API button
  • Name the project anything you want, then click Next
  • Wait for the page titled Configure your OAuth client to show
  • From the dropdown menu, select Web Server
  • Then under the Authorized redirect URIs field, put the following URL: https://libdrive-config.netlify.app
  • Keep note of the client_id and client_secret
• A TMDB API key
• Python 3 (this isn't needed for Heroku deployment)

Setup

The easiest method is deploying to Heroku, just click the button below and fill in the LIBDRIVE_CONFIG field with the config

To generate the config, go here and fill in the fields

If you would like to host libDrive some place else (such as a personal computer or server), do the following:

• First make sure you have all the prerequisites
• Now download the latest server version from here. The file name should look like this: libDrive_Server.zip
• Extract the downloaded zip file then open a termninal in the folder
• In the termninal, run pip install -r requirements.txt
• Next you need to generate a config
• To generate the config, go here and fill in the fields
• Set the config as the environment variable LIBDRIVE_CONGIG
• Now your server is ready, to start it run python main.py
• This is not a production build and will only work locally. To create a production build consider using a WSGI such as Gunicorn (if you're on Windows Gunicorn will not work) and port forwarding

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