kulbirsaini / videocache

A Squid URL rewriter plugin. http://cachevideos.com/

About Videocache

VideoCache is a Squid URL rewriter plugin written in Python for bandwidth optimization while browsing famous video portals. It helps you save bandwidth when a particular video is requested more than once from the same network/machine.

Squid can not cache the dynamically served videos. VideoCache fits into squid to help it cache the videos as well. The cached videos are stored on your proxy server’s local storage or on a storage server in your network. These cached videos can be served to your clients at a very fast speed saving you significant upstream bandwidth.

Related Projects

• DocVC
• VCSIDB
• Videocache-Ruby

Documentation

Full Documentation

Upgrading To A Newer Version

Upgrade Instructions

Configuration

Configuring Videocache

Operation

Operating Videocache

Monitor

Monitoring Videocache

About Me

Kulbir Saini, Senior Developer / Programmer, Hyderabad (INDIA)

Contact Me

Kulbir Saini - contact [AT] saini.co.in | @_kulbir

License

Copyright (c) 2015 Kulbir Saini

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

videocache's Issues

HTTPS Cache not Working in Squid

Hi @kulbirsaini
We are not able to cache https website using Squid. We installed Squid Proxy server on our windows machine, we were able to cache HTTP websites only.

Please help me to resolve this issue.

Does YouTube Still work?

I was looking at this project, but before I try to install it I was wondering if YouTube is still supported? From what I understand, Google now forces https redirects for all of the toobs. Does that mean this squid plugin no longer works?

Python modules errors

Hi,

Hi Kulbir,

I'm trying to install the plugin on our test proxy server to cache videos. My test platform is Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, with Apache2, Squid3, Python3, and webmin
when I try to install videocache using ./install.sh , i keep hitting python dependency errors.
First I hit an issue that it can't verify netifaces module. I have rolled back to a snapshot of the server prior to installing vidoecache, installed netifaces using pip install netifaces and tried again.
Now it complains about a different module. Please see below:

-----------------Python Modules And Development Files-----------------
Checking setuptools...................................................Installed
Checking iniparse.....................................................Missing
Installing iniparse...................................................Success
Verifying iniparse....................................................Failed

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
ImportError: No module named iniparse

When I run pip install iniparse I get

Requirement already satisfied: iniparse in /usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages

I also hit the same issue with concurrentloghandler , and I rolled back to an earlier snapshot and installed it.

 pip3 install concurrentloghandler
Requirement already satisfied: concurrentloghandler in /usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages

Yet i'm still getting the same error that videocache installer can't verify the module. Full installation progress below:

./install.sh
Checking root access..................................................Granted


---------------------Early Stage Dependency Check---------------------
Checking which........................................................Installed


------------------------Full Dependency Check-------------------------
Checking wget.........................................................Installed
Checking tar..........................................................Installed
Checking gcc..........................................................Installed
Checking python.......................................................Installed
Checking make.........................................................Installed
Checking python-pip...................................................Installed
Checking squid........................................................Installed
Checking Apache.......................................................Installed


-----------------Python Modules And Development Files-----------------
Checking setuptools...................................................Installed
Checking iniparse.....................................................Installed
Checking netifaces....................................................Installed
Checking cloghandler..................................................Missing
Installing ConcurrentLogHandler.......................................Success
Verifying cloghandler.................................................Failed

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
ImportError: No module named cloghandler

some help please ?

Thanks

request: Squid3 compat

Would you consider making the adjustments for the compatibility with Squid3 after all 2.6 is relegated to archives .