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iptv-playlist-parser

It parses IPTV playlist and converts it to a regular JavaScript object.

Installation

npm install iptv-playlist-parser

Usage

import fs from 'fs'
import parser from 'iptv-playlist-parser'

const playlist = fs.readFileSync('./playlist.m3u', { encoding: 'utf-8'})
const result = parser.parse(playlist)

console.log(result)

Example

Input:

#EXTM3U x-tvg-url="http://example.com/epg.xml.gz"
#EXTINF:-1 tvg-id="cnn.us" tvg-name="CNN" tvg-language="English" tvg-country="US" tvg-url="http://195.154.221.171/epg/guide.xml.gz" tvg-logo="http://example.com/logo.png" group-title="News",CNN (US)
#EXTGRP:News
#EXTVLCOPT:http-referrer=http://example.com/
#EXTVLCOPT:http-user-agent=Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_14_5)
http://example.com/stream.m3u8

Output:

{
  header: {
    attrs: {
      'x-tvg-url': 'http://example.com/epg.xml.gz'
    },
    raw: '#EXTM3U x-tvg-url="http://example.com/epg.xml.gz"'
  },
  items: [
    { 
      name: 'CNN (US)',
      tvg: {
        id: 'cnn.us',
        name: 'CNN',
        language: 'English',
        country: 'US',
        url: 'http://195.154.221.171/epg/guide.xml.gz',
        logo: 'http://example.com/logo.png'
      },
      group: {
        title: 'News'
      },
      http: {
        referrer: 'http://example.com/',
        'user-agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_14_5)'
      },
      url: 'http://example.com/stream.m3u8',
      raw: '#EXTINF:-1 tvg-id="cnn.us" tvg-name="CNN" tvg-language="English" tvg-country="US" tvg-url="http://195.154.221.171/epg/guide.xml.gz" tvg-logo="http://example.com/logo.png" group-title="News",CNN (US)\n#EXTVLCOPT:http-referrer=http://example.com/\n#EXTVLCOPT:http-user-agent=Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_14_5)\nhttp://example.com/stream.m3u8'
    }
  ]
}