self-hosted, Netflix-like app made for streaming
homehost
homehost is made for streaming your media collection within the home network
Features: 🎥 Movies, 📺 TV Shows, 🎵 Music
🎥 Movies
Home
Search
📺 TV Shows
Home
🎵 Music
Home
Search
Album
⚙️ Setup
Run npm run install-packages
In .env, set a working API key for TMDb API and Spotify Web API, set the media paths, and set tha base url of the homehost client
# packages/client/.env
REACT_APP_HOMEHOST_BASE = "http://localhost:5000"
REACT_APP_IMAGE_BASE = "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/"
REACT_APP_IMDB_BASE = "https://www.imdb.com"
# packages/server/.env
TMDB_KEY = '<api_key>'
SPOTIFY_CLIENT_ID = '<client_id>'
SPOTIFY_CLIENT_SECRET = '<client_secret>'
MOVIES_PATH = '/path/to/movies/directory'
TV_PATH = '/path/to/tv/directory'
MUSIC_PATH = '/path/to/music/directory'
DATABASE_URL = 'file:./data/media.db'
CLIENT_BASE_URL = 'http://localhost:3000'
If you dont have keys, you can request API authorization from Spotify at https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/, and TMDb at https://developers.themoviedb.org/3/getting-started/introduction
Media
Your media must appear in the absolute path locations set by .env. Each media must be in a unique location and cannot share the same directory path(s)
Naming conventions
🎥 Movies
<movies_path>
- (subdirectory)?
- (movie_file_name <TMDb-movie-ID>) (.mp4|.mkv)
📺 TV
<tv_path>
- (tv_show_directory_name <TMDb-tv-show-ID>)
- (S<season_number>E<episode_number> episode_file_name) (.mp4|.mkv)
🎵 Music
<music_path>
- (album_directory_name <Spotify-album-ID>)
- ((<disc_number>-)?<track_number> track_file_name) (.mp3|.flac)
Tracks not found on Spotify can be put in a directory titled Unknown Album sans disc/ track number
<music_path>
- Unknown Album
- (track_file_name) (.mp3|.flac)
Database
Run npm run db:migrate to create migrations from schema, apply them, generate the database client
homehost scans the media paths and adds the files to the database
Wait for the async job to finish generating metadata and save
To browse data, run npm run db:browse and go to http://localhost:5555
To clear all data, run npm run db:clear
Run
Run npm run start to start the application
By default, the server port is 5000, client port is 3000
Run npm run start:prod to start the application as prod (default port is 5000)
While running, homehost continuously saves and retrieves information for any media that was added, moved or removed
Routes
Server-side
GET
/api/about
/api/library/stats
/api/not_available
/api/movies
/api/movies/most_popular
/api/movies/highest_rated
/api/movies/recently_added
/api/movies/genres
/api/movies/genre/:name
/api/movies/random
/api/movies/:id
/api/tv
/api/tv/most_popular
/api/tv/highest_rated
/api/tv/recently_added
/api/tv/genres
/api/tv/genre/:name
/api/tv/random
/api/tv/:id
/api/music/albums/recently_added
/api/music/albums/latest
/api/music/artists
/api/music/artists/most_popular
/api/music/albums
/api/music/albums/:id
/api/music/songs
/api/music/songs/recently_added
/movies/:id
/tv/:tv_show_id/:season_number/:episode_number
/music/:album_id/:disc_number/:track_number
/api/watch/search
/api/listen/search
/api/watch/billboard
Client-side
/movies, /tv, /music
Development
Works best in 
Chrome. Coming to Desktop, iOS, Android.
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Contributing
See CONTRIBUTING.md.
License
This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details
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