facebook-live-video

Stream a website with phantomjs to Facebook Live via ffmpeg (video) and collect Facebook reactions

Resources

Overview: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/videos/live-video API Doc: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/reference/live-video/#Overview

If you need help with the setup or if you want to use it for commercial please text me [email protected]

Installation

I installed everything on Ubuntu 16.04, for other versions check docs how to install.

FFmpeg

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ffmpeg

NodeJS

Install latest NodeJS on your server - you can do it ;)

phantomjs

I used the self-contained binary. Check http://phantomjs.org/download.html

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install build-essential g++ flex bison gperf ruby perl \
  libsqlite3-dev libfontconfig1-dev libicu-dev libfreetype6 libssl-dev \
  libpng-dev libjpeg-dev python libx11-dev libxext-dev
wget https://bitbucket.org/ariya/phantomjs/downloads/phantomjs-2.1.1-linux-x86_64.tar.bz2
tar -xf phantomjs-2.1.1-linux-x86_64.tar.bz2
rm -rf phantomjs-2.1.1-linux-x86_64.tar.bz2
sudo cp phantomjs-2.1.1-linux-x86_64/bin/phantomjs /usr/bin/
rm -R phantomjs-2.1.1-linux-x86_64

Usage

Create Facebook App (if you dont already have one) >> FB App
Get Facebook User Access Token with this app and your user >> Explorer Important: User needs publish_actions permission
Go to your cli and type in:

npm start [accessToken] [debug] [privacy]

It creates a Live Video (via FB API) and streams the index.html inside the /website folder. Modify this files for your needs. ;)

The video is set to privacy:SELF, only you can see it.

Check your Facebook wall. ;)

Configuration

Go to src/index.js and checkout the function start() there is another function call:

fb.startLiveVideo({
    accessToken,
    title: 'First test video - ' + new Date(),
    // privacy: "{'value':'FRIENDS'}"
})

modify the options object to configure your stream see: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/reference/live-video/#Overview for possible parameters.

Privacy parameter:

npm start [accessToken] false public
npm start [accessToken] false friends
npm start [accessToken] false friends_of_friends

Customize your own settings. You can find privacy settings here: (search for privacy) https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/reference/v2.8/post

Modify the files in /website how you like. You can also stream another website by changing the url in the index.js file

Debug

If you have problems with your installation, check the stream.log:

tail -f stream.log

If you just want to fake increase the reaction counter use :

npm start [accessToken] [debug]
=> npm start [accessToken] true

It will increase the numbers every 2 sec by a random number.

If your phantomjs script stuck (sometimes it doesnt stop after a ctrl + c) use to kill every process:

pkill -f  phantomjs

FB API wrapper - /src/fb.js

I build a little wrapper for the FB API in /src/fb.js which is also available from the cli.

node src/fb.js [accessToken] [action] [postId]
node src/fb.js [accessToken] get 1234
node src/fb.js [accessToken] end 1234
node src/fb.js [accessToken] delete 1234
node src/fb.js [accessToken] get_all
# CAREFUL: deletes all videos! Only do this on a testaccount. I am not resposible for your deleted videos! # node src/fb.js [accessToken] delete_all

Todo

keep ffmpeg stream at 30 fps
configure streaming video with cli params, e.g. stringified JSON
stop process after ~4h (max. fb live video length)
kill phantomjs process properly after the stream ends or main process exits
optimize quality (ffmpeg)

Contribution

Please help me to improve this toolset for Facebook Live Videos. Feedback and PR's are very welcome! :)

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