dasha

Library for parsing MPEG-DASH (.mpd) and HLS (.m3u8) manifests. Made with the purpose of obtaining a simplified representation convenient for further downloading of segments.

Warning

This README is for the alpha version. Info about latest stable version is available on NPM or another GitHub branch.

Install

npm install dasha@alpha

Usage

import fs from 'node:fs/promises';
import { parse } from 'dasha';

const url = 'https://dash.akamaized.net/dash264/TestCases/1a/sony/SNE_DASH_SD_CASE1A_REVISED.mpd';
const streamExtractor = new StreamExtractor();
await streamExtractor.loadSourceFromUrl(url);
const streams = await streamExtractor.extractStreams();

for (const stream of streams) {
  const segments = stream.playlist?.mediaParts[0].mediaSegments || [];
  const filename = `${stream.name}_${stream.groupId}`;
  for (const segment of segments) {
    const content = await fetch(segment.url).then((res) => res.arrayBuffer());
    await fs.appendFile(`${filename}.${stream.extension}`, content);
  }
}

Credits

This project is heavily influenced by the robust implementation found in N_m3u8DL-RE. Special thanks to the open-source community and contributors who make projects like this possible.

Licenses

This project is licensed under the MIT License.