Livepeer Video Services NFT Tutorial

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This tutorial will help guide users through uploading and minting a video as an NFT using Livepeer Video Services.

Table of Contents

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• Livepeer Video Services
  • Table of Contents
  • What is Livepeer Video Service?
  • What you need to get started
  • Step 1: Get API Key
  • Step 2: Setting up Livepeer Video Services CLI
  • Step 3: Run the video-nft command
  • Step 4: Mint your Video NFT

📹 What is Livepeer? 📹

Livepeer is a decentralized video transcoding platform.

Livepeer Video Services makes adding video streaming features into your web3 apps easy. It can handle live streams or video files.

What you need to get started:

• 💚 Node. js installed on your computer 💻 node >=10.0.0 or yarn >=1.0.0
• [Yarn]
• 📹 Have a .mp4 video file to mint 🌿
• 🦊 Metamask wallet 👛
• Have Polygon/Mumbai Testnet AND MATIC in your Metamask.

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⬆️ Upload Your Video SDK ⬆️

Step 1. Get API Key 🔑

Get an API key from Livepeer here

Click Create API Key

Enter the name for your API key and then Click Create.

The page should look like this when you create the API key:

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Step 2: Setting up Livepeer Video Services CLI

Navigate to a folder 📁 where your video file 🎥 is located

• Example: livepeer.mp4

Run the following command in your terminal or command prompt to install the Livepeer CLI (Command Line Interface):

npm install -g @livepeer/video-nft

Step 3. Run the video-nft command

Run the following command in your terminal: video-nft.

• Enter your Livepeer API key.

• Enter the name of the .mp4 file you want to use

• Name you want to give to your NFT

• Optionally customize the metadata for your video NFT by hitting Y or N.

Once your video has successfully uploaded, you will get an object with fields, including your IPFS hash containing your metadata:

{
  "videoFileCid": "QmRNZBCDtuBcvmX1W8U3M9xuEqRYLv6P7mNw8m1v1b91Wt",
  "nftMetadataCid": "QmYwabdPZDpcdQf2indzCSWhko8fPvKRAWXoFm5Ka1JB31",
  "videoFileUrl": "ipfs://QmRNZBCDtuBcvmX1W8U3M9xuEqRYLv6P7mNw8m1v1b91Wt",
  "videoFileGatewayUrl": "https://ipfs.livepeer.com/ipfs/QmRNZBCDtuBcvmX1W8U3M9xuEqRYLv6P7mNw8m1v1b91Wt",
  "nftMetadataUrl": "ipfs://QmYwabdPZDpcdQf2indzCSWhko8fPvKRAWXoFm5Ka1JB31",
  "nftMetadataGatewayUrl": "https://ipfs.livepeer.com/ipfs/QmYwabdPZDpcdQf2indzCSWhko8fPvKRAWXoFm5Ka1JB31"
}

The last line after the successful upload provides a URL like this:

https://livepeer.com/mint-nft?tokenUri=ipfs://QmYwabdPZDpcdQf2indzCSWhko8fPvKRAWXoFm5Ka1JB31

A modal should popup:

You can pass in your custom ERC721 contract address or use the contract provided by Livepeer.

Click Connect to Metamask button

Choose either Polygon Testnet or Polygon Mainnet.

Only Polygon network is supported right now.

Step 4. Mint your Video NFT

Prerequisite:

• Be sure to have your Metamask network configured to the Polygon Testnet or Polygon Mainnet.

If you click on the button Polygon Testnet or Polygon Mainnet, it should configure your metamask to add and change your network.

• Be sure to have some Matic Token in your Metamask wallet

Polygon Mainnet

Polygon faucet can be found at https://matic.supply.

Make sure your Metamask or web 3.0 wallet is connected to the Polygon blockchain.

Polygon Testnet

If you need some Testnet Matic, go to this URL https://faucet.polygon.technology/.

• After navigating to the URL provided, you can leave the contract field blank and default to Livepeer's contract.

• Hit "Mint NFT"

You'll have to confirm the transaction and pay for the gas in Metamask.

Congratulations 🎉

You just minted your nft!

Click on the link Check it out on OpenSea to view your video NFT.

You can view the video nft from this tutorial rignt here

To view the metadata for this NFT, copy the IPFS hash provided to you in the terminal after uploading your video.

You can take this hash and navigate to https://ipfs.io/ipfs/your-ipfs-hash-here

Example: https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmYwabdPZDpcdQf2indzCSWhko8fPvKRAWXoFm5Ka1JB31

Building a NodeJS Backend using the SDK

Lets build a video uploader that uses the sdk that you can upload your video using livepeer

What you need to get started:

• 💚 Node. js installed on your computer 💻
  • node >=10.0.0 or yarn >=1.0.0

Step 1. Install dependencies for the backend

Create a folder called video-nft-server

mkdir video-nft-server

Next run these commands:

npm

cd video-nft-server 
npm init 

or

yarn

cd video-nft-server
yarn init

• Install the following npm packages to your package.json

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npm

npm install --save @livepeer/video-nft cors dotenv express multer

or

yarn

yarn add @livepeer/video-nft cors dotenv express multer

Create a folder

called upload the your videos

mkdir uploads

Resources: