Stream - Faster MP4 downloads from Cloudflare Stream

Generating MP4 downloads from Cloudflare Stream is now up to 40% faster, with no changes to your implementation required. This improvement is most impactful for on-demand videos over 1 minute in duration.

You can generate an MP4 download in the Dashboard, with the cf, the Cloudflare CLI CLI, or by sending a POST request.

cf clish

cf stream videos downloads create default --identifier "$VIDEO_UID"

Create downloadbash

curl "https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/accounts/$ACCOUNT_ID/stream/$IDENTIFIER/downloads/default" \
	--request POST \
	--header "Authorization: Bearer $CLOUDFLARE_API_TOKEN"

Both of these response include the download URL and processing progress:

{
	"result": {
		"default": {
			"status": "inprogress",
			"percentComplete": 75.0,
			"url": "https://customer-<CODE>.cloudflarestream.com/<VIDEO_UID>/downloads/default.mp4"
		}
	},
	"success": true,
	"errors": [],
	"messages": []
}

For more information, refer to Generate downloadable MP4 files.