Fork from https://github.com/mightymercado/hls-proxy

This is now quite different from the original code. But it should retain the same functionality. I did not retest the performance, but it is still quite fast to answer.

Fast HLS Proxy

This is a fast and lightweight HTTP/S server that redirects and rewrites encrypted HLS streams to avoid CORS and Geoblocking.

Benchmark

source	fast-hls-proxy	hls-proxy
cloudfront	200-300ms	1.7s-2.0s

Features

1. Uses fast asynchronous IO with green threads (i.e. gevent)
2. Uses fast byte string processing without regex and splits
3. Uses lightweight / fast HTTP server with Falcon and Gunicorn
4. Compatible with Pypy3
5. Uses persistent connections with urllib PoolManager
6. Uses chunked response stream
7. Proxies raw GZIP upstream data without decoding