api.video watch a video livestream

api.video is the video infrastructure for product builders. Lightning fast video APIs for integrating, scaling, and managing on-demand & low latency live streaming features in your app.

watchLivestream

Watch a video livestream

Try it out watch.a.video/livestream

This site runs on NodeJS

To create your own:

1. clone the repo
2. npm install to add all the node modeules required.
3. create a .env file and add apivideoKeyProd={your apivideo key}
4. launch (npm start)

This will launch a site at localhost:3003

You can then add a streamId query parameter with your livestream:

For example, this url will show whatever video is playing at livestream.a.video:

https://watch.a.video/livestream/broadcast?streamId=li400mYKSgQ6xs7taUeSaEKr

Under the hood

On a request - if there is no parameter in the URL, it will default to the "pi livestream".

An API call is made to see if the stream "is broadcasting" If true: the video is shown. If false - the thumbnail appears.

A second API call is made to the VOD endpoint to see if there are any saved videos. If there are videos: the first 5 are displayed. NB: If there are >20 - they are all deleted. I do this mostly to keep my demo accout from accumulating too many live stream video recordings.