Listen to stream events
Learn how to listen to stream events using Studio webhooks
Livepeer Studio uses webhooks to communicate with your application
asynchronously when events for your stream occur. For example, you may want to
know when a stream is active or idle, so that you can surface this
information to viewers.
When these events happen, you can configure Studio to make a POST request to a
webhook URL that you specify.
Type of stream events
stream.started | The parent stream object’s isActive value is marked as true and the .m3u8 HLS URL works |
stream.idle | The parent stream object’s isActive value should be marked as false and the .m3u8 HLS URL no longer works |
recording.ready | This fires when a recording is ready to be downloaded |
recording.started | This fires when recording has started on an active stream |
recording.waiting | This fires after a stream with recording on has concluded and is not yet ready to be downloaded. Typically it takes 5 minutes for recordings to be ready for download. |
multistream.connected | This fires when we’ve successfully connected to the multistream target |
multistream.error | This fires when we’ve encountered an error either while attempting to connect to the third party streaming service or while broadcasting. |
multistream.disconnected | This fires when we are no longer sending video to the multistream target. |
Set up a webhook endpoint
The first step is to set up a webhook endpoint in your application. This is the URL that Livepeer Studio will send the event to. Learn more about setting up a webhook endpoint.
Add a webhook URL to Livepeer Studio
Log in to the Livepeer Studio and navigate to the Developers/Webhooks page.
Click the “Create Webhook” button and enter URL of webhook endpoint. Select any stream event (with stream/multistream prefix) to receive notifications for and click “Create Webhook”.
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