| Sepia Search | |
| Location City: | Lyon |
| Owner: | Framasoft |
| Location Country: | France |
| Area Served: | Worldwide |
| Website Type: | Search engine |
| Advertising: | No ads |
| Language: | Multilingual |
| Registration: | Optional (required to upload) |
| Launch Date: | September 2020 |
| Current Status: | Active |
Sepia Search is a video search engine for PeerTube.[1] It is developed by the French association Framasoft.
Sepia Search was launched in September 2020, by the Framasoft association, to serve as a single portal to search for video on hundreds of PeerTube instances.
However, according to the association, this portal is not intended to be exhaustive or to centralise research on all bodies:
The instance search capacity of the Sepia Search portal has grown from around 500 PeerTube instances in September 2020 to almost 800 instances listed in March 2021.
For any keyword, the service returns results found on all the federated instances.
For a more specific query, it is possible to apply a sorting according to: 1) the date of publication, 2) the video duration or 3) by filtering contents considered sensitive.[2]
The look and feel of this portal is therefore deliberately similar to that of other video platforms for the general public such as Dailymotion, YouTube or Youku.
This service is based on two complementary elements: