Swarm Super Peer

Server-side peer that downloads HLS segments over HTTP and seeds them to other peers over WebRTC. It never downloads data from the P2P network, acting purely as an uploader.

Running the super peer

Use the example script to start a peer that loads an HLS playlist and seeds its segments:

pnpm install
pnpm dlx tsx src/run-super-peer.ts

Run the command from this package's directory. It uses the tsx runner to execute src/run-super-peer.ts.

Options

The super peer refreshes the HLS playlist every three seconds by default and lets the core loader download new segments automatically via HTTP only. P2P downloads are disabled; cached segments are uploaded to connected peers. You can tweak the reload frequency and the number of concurrent HTTP downloads with the reloadIntervalMs and simultaneousHttpDownloads options:

// run-super-peer.ts
import { createSuperPeer } from "swarm-super-peer";

await createSuperPeer({
  streamUrl: "https://db691j6te7mt4.cloudfront.net/out/v1/f65bdb9d5ac1498ba700027b5ca8a383/index_5.m3u8",
  swarmId: "swarm.video",
  apiKey: "EXAMPLE14EXAMPLE32775aEXAMPLE94ac0530EXAMPLE7c02EXAMPLE",,
  simultaneousHttpDownloads: 10,
});