# hls.js

JavaScript library that plays HTTP Live Streaming video in browsers through HTML5 video and Media Source Extensions.


Source: https://findsoftware.frbit.cloud/hls-js/
Last reviewed: 2026-11-09
Listed since: 2026-11-09

## Record

### Links

- home: https://hlsjs.video-dev.org/demo/
- repository: https://github.com/video-dev/hls.js
- docs: https://github.com/video-dev/hls.js/blob/master/docs/API.md

### Identity

- status: active
- maintainer: Dailymotion
- maintainerType: unknown
- parent: unknown
- firstRelease: 2015
- hqCountry: unknown

### Kind

- category: media
- hosting: unknown
- language: javascript
- runtime: unknown
- runtimeMin: unknown
- basedOn: unknown

### Content

- contentStore: not applicable
- databases: not applicable
- adminUi: not applicable
- headlessApi: not applicable
- templating: not applicable
- i18n: not applicable

### Rendering and deploy

- runsAs: browser
- renderingModes: not applicable
- installMethod: npm

### License

- licenseModel: open-source
- license: Apache-2.0

### Releases

- currentMajor: 1
- latestReleaseDate: 2026-10-28

### Adoption

- githubStargazers: 17038
- packagistDownloads: not applicable
- npmWeeklyDownloads: 14705223
- contributors: 332
- pluginCount: unknown
- packagistMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- ecosystemsMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- httpArchiveSites: unknown
- wordpressActiveInstalls: unknown
- dependentRepos: 3915
- dependentPackages: 695

### Sources

- urls: https://hlsjs.video-dev.org/demo/ (read 2026-11-09)
- urls: https://api.github.com/repos/video-dev/hls.js (read 2026-11-09)
- urls: https://github.com/video-dev/hls.js/blob/master/README.md (read 2026-11-09)
- firstRelease: https://api.github.com/repos/video-dev/hls.js/commits/be17f4eefb31aa96e4eb6ac11a5c1f191b13afd4 (read 2026-11-09)
- maintainer: https://github.com/video-dev/hls.js/blob/master/LICENSE (read 2026-11-09)
- category: https://github.com/video-dev/hls.js/blob/master/README.md (read 2026-11-09)
- language: https://api.github.com/repos/video-dev/hls.js (read 2026-11-09)
- runsAs: https://github.com/video-dev/hls.js/blob/master/README.md (read 2026-11-09)
- installMethod: https://github.com/video-dev/hls.js/blob/master/README.md (read 2026-11-09)
- installMethod: https://github.com/video-dev/hls.js/blob/master/README.md (read 2026-11-09)
- installMethod: https://github.com/video-dev/hls.js/blob/master/README.md (read 2026-11-09)
- license: https://github.com/video-dev/hls.js/blob/master/LICENSE (read 2026-11-09)
- currentMajor: https://api.github.com/repos/video-dev/hls.js/releases/tags/v1.7.4 (read 2026-11-09)
- latestReleaseDate: https://api.github.com/repos/video-dev/hls.js/releases/tags/v1.7.4 (read 2026-11-09)
- githubStargazers: https://api.github.com/repos/video-dev/hls.js (read 2026-11-09)
- contributors: https://api.github.com/repos/video-dev/hls.js/contributors?per_page=1 (read 2026-11-09)
- npmWeeklyDownloads: https://api.npmjs.org/downloads/range/2026-11-01:2026-11-07/hls.js (read 2026-11-09)
- dependentPackages: https://packages.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/registries/npmjs.org/packages/hls.js (read 2026-11-09)
- dependentRepos: https://packages.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/registries/npmjs.org/packages/hls.js (read 2026-11-09)

## Notes

hls.js is a JavaScript library for playing HTTP Live Streaming video in a web page. It streams VOD, live and Low-Latency HLS assets and is written in TypeScript. A page loads it with a script tag or installs it from npm, and the [API docs](https://github.com/video-dev/hls.js/blob/master/docs/API.md) cover its use.

## Worth knowing

The library runs in the page, not in Node.js: requiring it in Node.js loads a placeholder export, and no player can be created there. Its copyright line names Dailymotion, and the repository is hosted under the video-dev GitHub organization.

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Credit, in full: FindSoftware, CC BY 4.0