CBTRec (Apache85) (YT-DLP)

CTBRec Web is a self-hosted web application for monitoring and automatically recording public Chaturbate live streams. It runs on any Linux machine is controlled entirely through a browser.

Do not use internal ffmpeg from Qnap firmware; you can use the Apache85 version (/opt/Apache85/bin/ffmpeg), if you have QMultimedia (Q6), ffmpeg is automatically detected

YT-DLP is auto-updating (once installed): https://myqnap.linz.link/product/yt-dlp-cli/

Core Features

• Automatic live detection — polls Chaturbate’s internal API at a configurable interval; recording starts the moment a model goes live and restarts automatically when the next stream begins
• Multiple simultaneous recordings — each model runs in its own independent thread with no limit on concurrent streams
• Persistent stop/pause — if you manually stop or pause a recording, that state is saved to disk and survives an application restart; the recorder will not auto-start again until you explicitly click Start
• Live status while stopped — a passive background checker keeps monitoring stopped/paused models so you can see in the UI when they go live and decide whether to record
• Segment splitting — split recordings into files of a fixed size (MB) or duration (minutes), or record as a single continuous file
• Output format — record as .ts (Transport Stream, most reliable for live capture) or .mp4 (fragmented, compatible with all players)
• Quality selection — best / 1080p / 720p / 480p / 360p / 240p / worst, resolved from the HLS variant playlist
• File browser — browse, list, and delete recorded .ts/.mp4 files per model directly from the UI
• Session history — every recording session is logged (start time, end time, bytes recorded, file count)
• Real-time bandwidth — per-stream KB/s display with a 60-point sparkline chart
• Live notifications — 3-second bottom-right popup when a monitored model goes live or offline
• Export / Import — backup and restore the full model list as JSON
• Dark & Light theme, 9 UI languages (EN, FR, ES, DE, PT, ZH, JA, RU, AR with RTL)
• REST API — every action is available programmatically via HTTP endpoints
• Server-Sent Events — the browser receives real-time stats without polling
• Security hardening — Content Security Policy, X-Frame-Options, path traversal protection, input sanitisation, rate limiting on the live-check endpoint

Last update: 13 May 2026