A simple script to help support the lbry network and your favourite creators on it.

The lbry desktop app is cool but it only runs when your computer is on and running the lbry app so this is not always useful.

I have a NAS with some spare storage and a fibre connection; I wanted to use this to help seed content on the lbry network.

This script is intended to be used with the headless lbrynet client.

You will first need to install docker.

Download the prebuilt container.

docker pull tuxfoo/lbry-seedit:latest

Run the container replacing the destination path with to location of where you would like to store hosted data.

docker run -v /path/to/lbrydata_dest:/home/lbrynet -d --name seedit tuxfoo/lbry-seedit:latest

seedit_config.yaml will be shown in /path/to/lbrydata_dest after docker started successfully.

Edit the seedit_config.yaml file which will be stored in the destination volume from the previous command.

Add/change channel to host, and set the storage limit in seedit_config.yaml.

If you are not using UPNP then you will need to open up TCP port 3333 and UDP port 4444 on your router/firewall.

Make sure you have make, Docker and Docker-compose installed. You can find directions on how to install them here:

• Install Docker
• Install docker-compose

Clone this repo to the partition where you plan to store all the hosting data.

You will first need to build the docker image by running docker-compose build from the repo base directory.

Once that finishes, run docker-compose up -d to start the container (the -d just runs it in the background).

Then you will want to add the channels you want to seed to seedit_config.yaml. Change the page count to change the amount of previous videos you would like to download.

Now to start the python script run make run-seedit which will run the makefile target that runs the python script in the docker container.

Cron job is running inside docker container inside seedit/core/lbrycron file you can adjust it if you do not want script to run every 12h. Editing cron will require you to rebuild container with docker-compose build then docker-compose up -d.

If you are not using UPNP then you will need to open up TCP port 3333 and UDP port 4444

Going forward, lbry-seedit will be developed with docker in mind. If you do not want the docker version, then you can just download the python script from seedit/core/lbrynet_home and set up a cron job for it, make sure the lbrynet client is also installed and running.

The python script also contains support for basic disk storage management. Change the value of "max_disk_usage" to enable this feature; it will delete the oldest videos first excluding videos from channels listed in "never_delete".