Stream a remote video to the client

theodoros

The fs.createReadStream(), takses a local path as a parameter. So for streaming a video, that file should already exist on the local storage.

I m wondering, how can we stream a video file, that resides on another server and not on the nodejs server itself.

So the workflow should be:
1. nodejs request a video from an external url
2. more likely it will get the video async
3. then in nodejs side:
a. create a stream. (assumption)
b. pipe it on the response (assumption)

I dont want to implement that solution with a 3rd party application, but with a native nodejs modules. (i mean from the nodejs docs, if it is possible)

xdxmxc

if the external url is essentially stream of binary then you can just pipe the client request to the server response. In fastify you can just return an http.request call, or better yet use the fastify-reply-from plugin: https://github.com/fastify/fastify-reply-from