mtu-webcams

📷 🚨 an easy-to-use API for downloading and streaming from public Michigan Tech webcams

Installation

npm i mtu-webcams

Usage

The below example assumes you have FFMPEG installed and it is in your $PATH.

If you don't have FFMPEG installed or don't want to install it, check out ffmpeg-static.

const fs = require('fs');
const Webcams = require('mtu-webcams');

const cams = new Webcams();

(async () => {
  // Get all webcams and save in instance
  await cams.init();

  // Log discovered webcams
  console.log(cams.getAll()); // => [ ... ]

  // Download yesterday's timelapse to 'recording.mp4'
  const yesterday = new Date(new Date().getTime() - (86400 * 1000));

  cams.byName('Campus Aerial').streamRecording(yesterday).pipe(fs.createWriteStream('recording.mp4'));

  // Get a current snapshot and save to 'snapshot.jpg'
  cams.byName('Campus Aerial').streamImage().pipe(fs.createWriteStream('snapshot.jpg'));

  // Stream ~5 seconds of video and save to 'stream.flv'
  const stream = cams.byName('Campus Aerial').streamVideo();
  stream.pipe(fs.createWriteStream('stream.mp4'));

  setTimeout(() => {
    stream.destroy();
  }, 5000);
})();

📖 Docs

Table of Contents

• Webcams
  • Parameters
  • init
  • getAll
  • byId
    • Parameters
  • byName
    • Parameters
• Camera
  • Parameters
  • getImageURL
  • streamImage
  • getVideoURL
  • streamVideo
    • Parameters
  • getRecordingURL
    • Parameters
  • streamRecording
    • Parameters

Webcams

Main cameras class.

Parameters

• options Object (optional, default {})
  • options.ffmpegPath String? path to local FFMPEG binary

init

Scrape Michigan Tech's website to retrieve all published webcams.

Returns Array<Camera> discovered cameras

getAll

Get all cameras saved in instance.

Returns Array<Camera>

byId

Gets camera by ID.

Parameters

• id Number of camera

Returns Camera

byName

Gets camera by name.

Parameters

• name String of camera

Returns Camera

Camera

Main camera class.

Parameters

• $0 Object (optional, default {})
  • $0.imageURL
  • $0.name
  • $0.description
  • $0.ffmpegPath

getImageURL

Returns the URL to a static snapshot.

Returns String

streamImage

Returns a stream of the latest static snapshot.

Returns stream.Readable

getVideoURL

Returns the URL to a live m3u8 playlist.

Returns String

streamVideo

Returns a live video stream from the webcam.

Parameters

• options Object (optional, default {})
  • options.format String format specifier passed to FFMPEG (optional, default 'flv')

Returns stream.Readable

getRecordingURL

Returns the URL for a MP4 recording.

Parameters

• date Date of recording

Returns String

streamRecording

Returns a recording as a stream.

Parameters

• date Date of recording to retrieve

Returns stream.Readable