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
- Supports using Jackett as a search backend(HIGHLY RECOMMENDED).
- 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
Requires Docker
docker run -p 5000:5000 -p 6881:6881 -p 6881:6881/udp -e USERNAME=<some-username> -e PASSWORD=<some-password> hauxir/rapidbay
App will be running at http://localhost:5000
The default setting downloads all subtitle languages but it might get slow if there are many for a given file.
To solve this you need to customize which languages you want.
Add the env variable SUBTITLE_LANGUAGES to your docker params like so:
-e SUBTITLE_LANGUAGES="['en', 'de', 'es']"
Rapidbay supports using the torrent indexer Jackett for searching. Just provide the the env variables JACKETT_HOST and JACKETT_API_KEY like so:
-e JACKETT_HOST="http://your.jacket.host" -e JACKETT_API_KEY="YourAPIKey"
- 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.
Requires Docker + docker-compose
docker-compose up
Default username and password is admin:123456
Setting RapidBay up on a VPS and tunnel torrent traffic through NordVPN