hlx-http-put

A writable stream to send HLS streams to an external HTTP/HTTPS server

Features

• Being used with other hlx objects, it provides a functionality to send every HLS related files (playlist and segments) to an external HTTP/HTTPS endpoint.

Install

Usage

const hlx = require('hlx');
const {createWriteStream} = require('hlx-http-put');

const writable = createWriteStream({
  endpoint: 'http://foo.bar/input'
});

// Send files to the remote endpoint
hlx.src('http://example.com/master.m3u8')
.pipe(decryptor)
.pipe(hlx.dest(writable))
.on('error', err => {
  console.log(err.stack);
});

API

The features are built on top of the Node's transform streams.

createWriteStream(options)

Creates a new TransformStream object.

params

| Name | Type | Required | Default | Description | | ------- | ------ | -------- | ------- | ------------- | | options | object | Yes | N/A | See below |

options

| Name | Type | Default | Description | | ----------- | ------ | ------- | --------------------------------- | | endpoint | string | N/A | URL of the destination (webdav server endpoint) | | rootPath | string | The path included in url | Will be used when the playlist contains relative urls | | agent | http.Agent | undefined | Proxy agent |

return value

An instance of TransformStream.