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Receive Live Webhooks

Stream Live offers webhooks to notify your service when an Input connects, disconnects, or encounters an error with Stream Live.

Stream Live Notifications

Who is it for?

Customers who are using Stream and want to receive webhooks with the status of their videos.

Other options / filters

You can input Stream Live IDs to receive notifications only about those inputs. If left blank, you will receive a list for all inputs.

The following input states will fire notifications. You can toggle them on or off:

  • live_input.connected
  • live_input.disconnected

Included with

Stream subscription.

What should you do if you receive one?

Stream notifications are entirely customizable by the customer. Action will depend on the customizations enabled.

Subscribe to Stream Live Webhooks

  1. Log in to your Cloudflare account and click Notifications.
  2. From the Notifications page, click the Destinations tab.
  3. On the Destinations page under Webhooks, click Create.
  4. Enter the information for your webhook and click Save and Test.
  5. To create the notification, from the Notifications page, click the All Notifications tab.
  6. Next to Notifications, click Add.
  7. Under the list of products, locate Stream and click Select.
  8. Enter a name and optional description.
  9. Under Webhooks, click Add webhook and click your newly created webhook.
  10. Click Next.
  11. By default, you will receive webhook notifications for all Live Inputs. If you only wish to receive webhooks for certain inputs, enter a comma-delimited list of Input IDs in the text field.
  12. When you are done, click Create.

Example webhook payload
{
"name": "Live Webhook Test",
"text": "Notification type: Stream Live Input\nInput ID: eb222fcca08eeb1ae84c981ebe8aeeb6\nEvent type: live_input.disconnected\nUpdated at: 2022-01-13T11:43:41.855717910Z",
"data": {
"notification_name": "Stream Live Input",
"input_id": "eb222fcca08eeb1ae84c981ebe8aeeb6",
"event_type": "live_input.disconnected",
"updated_at": "2022-01-13T11:43:41.855717910Z"
},
"ts": 1642074233
}

The event_type property of the data object will either be live_input.connected, live_input.disconnected, or live_input.errored.

If there are issues detected with the input, the event_type will be live_input.errored. Additional data will be under the live_input_errored json key and will include a code with one of the values listed below.

Error codes

  • ERR_STORAGE_QUOTA_EXHAUSTED – The account storage quota has been exceeded.
  • ERR_GOP_OUT_OF_RANGE – The input GOP size or keyframe interval is out of range.
  • ERR_UNSUPPORTED_VIDEO_CODEC – The input video codec is unsupported for the protocol used.
  • ERR_UNSUPPORTED_AUDIO_CODEC – The input audio codec is unsupported for the protocol used.
Example live_input.errored webhook payload
{
"name": "Live Webhook Test",
"text": "Notification type: Stream Live Input\nInput ID: 2c28dd2cc444cb77578c4840b51e43a8\nEvent type: live_input.errored\nUpdated at: 2024-07-09T18:07:51.077371662Z\nError Code: ERR_GOP_OUT_OF_RANGE\nError Message: Input GOP size or keyframe interval is out of range.\nVideo Codec: \nAudio Codec: ",
"data": {
"notification_name": "Stream Live Input",
"input_id": "eb222fcca08eeb1ae84c981ebe8aeeb6",
"event_type": "live_input.errored",
"updated_at": "2024-07-09T18:07:51.077371662Z",
"live_input_errored": {
"error": {
"code": "ERR_GOP_OUT_OF_RANGE",
"message": "Input GOP size or keyframe interval is out of range."
},
"video_codec": "",
"audio_codec": ""
}
},
"ts": 1720548474,
}