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m3u8stream

Concatenates segments from a m3u8/dash-mpd playlist into a consumable stream.

0.8.6

224

MIT

TypeScript

48.37 kB

30,692,521 2.7

Installations

npm install m3u8stream

Developer Guide

BETA

Typescript

Yes

Module System

CommonJS

Min. Node Version

>=12

Node Version

16.13.1

NPM Version

7.24.2 Pull Requests

Open

2

Total

57

Closed

19

Merged

36

Issues

Open

8

Total

47

Closed

39

Releases

v0.8.6

Updated on Jan 09, 2022

v0.8.5

Updated on Jan 09, 2022

v0.8.4

Updated on May 28, 2021

v0.8.3

Updated on Nov 28, 2020

v0.8.2

Updated on Nov 22, 2020

v0.8.1

Updated on Nov 14, 2020

View All 21 releases

Languages

TypeScript

JavaScript

TypeScript (96.74%)

JavaScript (3.26%)

Developer

fent

Download Statistics

Total Downloads

30,692,521

Last Day

26,706

Last Week

228,653

Last Month

927,410

Last Year

9,829,632

GitHub Statistics

MIT License

224 Stars

146 Commits

53 Forks

6 Watchers

4 Branches

7 Contributors

Updated on Jun 14, 2025

Maintainers

View All 7 Contributors

Package Meta Information

Latest Version

0.8.6

Package Id

m3u8stream@0.8.6

Unpacked Size

48.37 kB

Size

13.49 kB

File Count

NPM Version

7.24.2

Node Version

16.13.1

Total Downloads

Cumulative downloads

Total Downloads

30,692,521

Last Day

-25.5%

26,706

Compared to previous day

Last Week

0.2%

228,653

Compared to previous week

Last Month

15.1%

927,410

Compared to previous month

Last Year

149.4%

9,829,632

Compared to previous year

Weekly Downloads

Monthly Downloads

Yearly Downloads

Dependencies

miniget sax

Dev Dependencies

@types/mocha @types/node @types/sax @types/sinon @typescript-eslint/eslint-plugin @typescript-eslint/parser eslint mocha nock nyc sinon ts-node typescript

node-m3u8stream

Reads segments from a m3u8 playlist or DASH MPD file into a consumable stream.

Depfu

Usage

1const fs = require('fs');
2const m3u8stream = require('m3u8stream')
3
4m3u8stream('http://somesite.com/link/to/the/playlist.m3u8')
5    .pipe(fs.createWriteStream('videofile.mp4'));

API

m3u8stream(url, [options])

Creates a readable stream of binary media data. options can have the following

begin - Where to begin playing the video. Accepts an absolute unix timestamp or date and a relative time in the formats 1:23:45.123 and 1m2s.
liveBuffer - How much buffer in milliseconds to have for live streams. Default is 20000.
chunkReadahead - How many chunks to preload ahead. Default is 3.
highWaterMark - How much of the download to buffer into the stream. See node's docs for more. Note that the actual amount buffered can be higher since each chunk request maintains its own buffer.
requestOptions - Any options you want to pass to miniget, such as headers.
parser - Either "m3u8" or "dash-mpd". Defaults to guessing based on the playlist url ending in .m3u8 or .mpd.
id - For playlist containing multiple media options. If not given, the first representation will be picked.

Stream#end()

If called, stops requesting segments, and refreshing the playlist.

Event: progress

Object - Current segment with the following fields,
- number - num
- number - size
- number - duration
- string - url
number - Total number of segments.
number - Bytes downloaded up to this point.

For static non-live playlists, emitted each time a segment has finished downloading. Since total download size is unknown until all segment endpoints are hit, progress is calculated based on how many segments are available.

miniget events

All miniget events are forwarded and can be listened to from the returned stream.

m3u8stream.parseTimestamp(time)

Converts human friendly time to milliseconds. Supports the format
00:00:00.000 for hours, minutes, seconds, and milliseconds respectively.
And 0ms, 0s, 0m, 0h, and together 1m1s.

time - A string (or number) giving the user-readable input data

Limitations

Currently, it does not support encrypted media segments. This is because the sites where this was tested on and intended for, YouTube and Twitch, don't use it.

This does not parse master playlists, only media playlists. If you want to parse a master playlist to get links to media playlists, you can try the m3u8 module.

Install

npm install m3u8stream

Tests

Tests are written with mocha

1npm test

No vulnerabilities found.

10

Dangerous-Workflow

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10

Binary-Artifacts

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10

License

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2

Pinned-Dependencies

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1

Code-Review

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0

Maintained

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0

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0

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0

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0

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0

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0

SAST

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0

Vulnerabilities

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Score

2.7

/10

Last Scanned on 2025-07-14

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