Read stream from Facebook Live Videos

Question

I would like create a server to create subtitles for live videos on Facebook. I use Google Speech to convert sound to text. However, in order to do that, I need to read the facebook live streams.

Using Facebook Live API, with me/live_videos, I get the following response:

{
      "status": "LIVE",
      "stream_url": "rtmp://rtmp-api.facebook.com:80/rtmp/{id}",
      "secure_stream_url": "rtmps://rtmp-api.facebook.com:443/rtmp/{id},
      "embed_html": "<iframe src=\"https://www.facebook.com/video/embed?video_id={video_id}\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" frameborder=\"0\"></iframe>",
      "id": "{id}"
    },

How can I read the streams from the above links?

Answer 1

I figure out that there is no way to get the current stream from Facebook now. Maybe they should add this feature to their API.

Answer 2

You can get the stream of ongoing live which you can play using any Dash Player. To get the stream URL of Live Video, follow these steps:

1. Use the LIVE_ID of video (not Video_ID) to make the request.
2. Send a get request at this end point /LIVE_ID with fields as 'access_token' and 'dash_preview_url'.
3. This will return the URL of the ongoing live stream which can be played using any DASH Player.

You can refer to official documentation for more information.