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.

Install

npm i dasha

Quick start

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 body = await fetch(url).then((res) => res.text());
const manifest = await parse(body, url);

for (const track of manifest.tracks.all) {
  for (const segment of track.segments) {
    const content = await fetch(url).then((res) => res.arrayBuffer());
    await fs.appendFile(`${track.id}.mp4`, content);
  }
}