Slide & Seek

A simple interface for uploading videos and generating direct links, meant to be embedded in a presentation (click an image → open the link → play the video).

How it works

• The admin interface (/) is protected by HTTP Basic authentication: upload and delete videos.
• Each video is stored in /v/ under a random name (32 hexadecimal characters), with no possible collision.
• Each video is publicly accessible, without authentication, via https://domain.fr/v/filename.mp4.

Project structure

SlideNSeek/
├── app.py                # Flask application
├── templates/index.html  # Admin interface
├── requirements.txt
├── Dockerfile
├── docker-compose.yml
├── .env.example
└── videos/               # Volume mounted to /v/ inside the container

Environment variables

Variable	Description
AUTH_USER	Login username for the admin interface
AUTH_PASSWORD	Login password for the admin interface
SECRET_KEY	Flask secret key (generate with openssl rand -hex 32)

Copy .env.example to .env and fill in real values before any deployment:

cp .env.example .env

Local testing

With Docker (recommended)

cd SlideNSeek
docker compose up -d --build

Interface: http://localhost:8080 Credentials: those set in .env.

Stop:

docker compose down

Without Docker

python3 -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt
export AUTH_USER=admin
export AUTH_PASSWORD=changeme
export SECRET_KEY=test
python app.py

The /v/ directory must be writable, or adjust VIDEO_DIR in app.py to a local folder for this test mode.