A Javascript library to parse and edit Hls playlists. Based on specification https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-pantos-http-live-streaming-23

Usage (Node JS)

npm install --save hls-playlist-parser

The library creates a programatically editable Object from the manifest. Supported tags are editable. Unsupported or unidentified tag are preserved but not editable. May be used to replace segments in server side ad-insertion.

const HlsParser = require('hls-playlist-parser').HlsParser

const parser = HlsParser("example.m3u8", "outfile.m3u8")
parser.readFile()
.then(() => {
  console.log(parser.manifest.tags) // all tags and segments in the manifest
  });

Supported tags

• EXTM3U
• EXT-X-VERSION
• EXTINF
• EXT-X-DISCONTINUITY
• EXT-X-KEY
• EXT-X-MAP
• EXT-X-DATERANGE
• EXT-X-TARGETDURATION
• EXT-X-MEDIA-SEQUENCE
• EXT-X-ENDLIST
• EXT-X-BYTERANGE

Contributing

All contributions are welcome but before you submit a Pull Request make sure you follow the same code conventions and that you have written unit tests