Hello,

I am adding a new sub-set of services for my users in relation to content delivery and streaming.

I was thinking about developing a service that uses catbox.moe as a “hosting provider” with my API logic sitting in-between acting as a controller.

When a user saves a video on my platform, I save it to catbox.moe, than create a URL for the end-user. I then save a reference to the database so that when an end user requests the URL, I retrieve the initial content from catbox.moe and stream it back to the user or create a download link for it.

The goal is to provide cloud storage & video streaming solutions without hosting the content myself.

Is this a good approach? or a bad idea? I want to consult others before going ahead and developing this tool.

  • e0qdk@reddthat.comEnglish
    10·
    23 days ago

    Unless you set up a business agreement directly with Catbox LLC – which would likely require an offer of substantial monetary support to get them to be interested – you would be violating their ToS and will almost certainly be blocked.

    • CarlOPMEnglish
      2·
      23 days ago

      I understand.

      I simply assumed that I wouldn’t be doing anything any other user would be as uploading content underneath 200MB and generating URLs is the entire point of the platform.

      All of the video processing & caching would be done on my platform.

      Ill reach out directly to Catbox LLC.

      EDIT [2024-11-29 13:35]

      I reached out to Catbox LLC, However I received no response but I found another provider named gofile.io that allows this kind of thing.

      Ill probably start with them.

      • e0qdk@reddthat.comEnglish
        2·
        23 days ago

        It’s American Thanksgiving weekend, so I wouldn’t expect a response from Catbox until at least Monday for non-emergency inquiries.

        Not familiar with gofile, but if their terms allow it or you’ve cleared it with the owner, then best of luck.