Stream a website with phantomjs to Facebook Live via ffmpeg (video) and collect Facebook reactions
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 office@pholly.at
I installed everything on Ubuntu 16.04, for other versions check docs how to install.
sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install ffmpeg Install latest NodeJS on your server - you can do it ;)
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 - 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_actionspermission - 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. ;)
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
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 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 - 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)
Please help me to improve this toolset for Facebook Live Videos. Feedback and PR's are very welcome! :)
