Live demo: pychat.org Tutorial video

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When should I use pychat
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Contributing and development setup

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This is free web (browser) chat, that features:

Sending instant text messages via websockets.
Sending images, smiles, anchors, embedded youtube, giphy, code highlight
Making calls and video conference using Peer to peer WebRTC.
Sharing screen during call or conference
Sending files directly to another PC (p2p) using WebRTC + FileSystem Api (up to 50MByte/s, limited by RTCDataChannel speed)
Editing images with integrated painter
Login in with facebook/google oauth.
Sending offline messages with Firebase push notifications
Responsive interface (bs like)+ themes

When should I use pychat:

	Pychat	Slack	Skype	Telegram	Viber
Open Source	+	-	-	-	-
Free	+	+/-	+/-	+	+/-
Screen sharing	+	+	-	-	-
Syntax highlight	+	-	-	-	-
Unlimited history	+	+/-	+	+	+
Mobile phone call	-	-	+/-	-	+/-
Audio/Video conference	+	+	+	+	-
Can run on your server	+	-	-	-	-
Audio/Video messages	+	-	-	+	+
P2P file sharing	+	-	-	-	-
Desktop/mobile clients*	-	+	+	+	+/-
3rd-party integration*	-	+	-	-	-

* coming soon...

Get started:

You can always use pychat.org, but if you want to run Pychat yourself you have options below:

Run test docker image

Please don't use this build for production, as it uses debug ssl certificate, lacks a few features and all files are located inside of container, meaning you will lose all data on container destroy.

Download and run image:

docker run -p 443:443 deathangel908/pychat-test

Open https://localhost

Run prod docker image

You need create ssl certificates: server.key and certificate.crt. For example

openssl req -nodes -new -x509 -keyout server.key -out certificate.crt -days 3650

Download settings.py and edit it according comments in it.
Download production.json and edit it according wiki
Create volume and copy files there

docker volume create pychat_data
containerid=`docker container create --name dummy -v pychat_data:/data hello-world`
docker cp settings.py dummy:/data/settings.py
docker cp production.json dummy:/data/production.json
docker cp certificate.crt dummy:/data/certificate.crt
docker cp server.key dummy:/data/server.key
docker rm dummy

If you need to edit files inside container you can use

docker run -i -t -v pychat_data:/tmp -it alpine /bin/sh

Run image with:

docker run -v pychat_data:/data -p 443:443 deathangel908/pychat

Open https://localhost and enjoy it!

Run without docker

Take a look at INSTALL.md

Contributing and development setup:

To run chat in development take a look at INSTALL.md
For development tips also check CONTRIBUTING.md

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