Overview

Browse the catalog, record on a schedule.

Stoarama is a public catalog of live video streams you can browse without an account. It also runs a paid recorder that captures a stream on a schedule and saves each clip you can download.

Browsing is free. Recording needs a signed-in account and a card on file.

How it works

From browse to clips

Browse the catalog. No account needed.
Open a stream to see its metadata, a live preview where the source allows it, and a self-record command.
Sign in (emailed link, no password) and set up a recording on your recordings.
Watch, download, or delete your clips, and see your bill on your account.

What recording costs

Pay for what you record

$0.05 per recording-hour, plus your choice of storage.

$0.05 for each hour a recording captures at least one clip. An hour that captures nothing is free.
Managed storage bills $0.10 per hour of footage, per month, for the time each clip is kept.
Record to your own NAS instead and storage is free (you keep clips on your own NAS).
Billed once a month, at the end of the month, to a card on file via Stripe. Adding a card does not charge you.

Recorder

Record any public HLS or HTTPS stream.

A recording captures one stream on a schedule and writes each clip. Set it up on your recordings.

You point it at a stream, pick how often it fires and how long each clip is, and choose where the clips land.

Sources

What can be recorded

A public HLS stream (a .m3u8 URL).
A direct HTTP(S) video stream.
YouTube is view-only and cannot be hosted-recorded. To capture a YouTube stream, use the yt-dlp command on its detail page from your own machine.

Schedule & clip length

How often, how long

Presets: every 15 min, every 30 min, hourly, every 4 hours, daily at a time in your timezone, or a custom 5-field cron.
Fires are at least 10 minutes apart.
Clip length: 1, 5, or 10 minutes. It must be shorter than the gap between fires.

Storage

Managed or your own NAS

Managed storage bills $0.10 per hour of footage, per month, for the time each clip is kept. Delete a clip and its charge stops.
Your own NAS keeps clips on your hardware. A small client pulls each clip on a poll, Stoarama verifies the download, then releases its managed copy. Storage is free while your NAS is pulling clips. If it falls behind, clips we hold past 24 hours bill at $0.10 per hour of footage, per month, until it catches up.

Managing recordings

Pause, resume, delete

Your recordings list shows each recording's status and health, a live cost ledger, and a per-recording monthly estimate.
Pause or resume a recording at any time, or delete it.

Clips

Working with captured clips

Each recording has its own clip page with a paginated list. View a clip inline or download it.
Download all clips on the page as a ZIP with an in-zip manifest.csv (including capture generation, sequence, and SHA-256 provenance), ordered concat.txt, and quality-preserving FFmpeg instructions in STITCHING.txt.
Delete a single clip or all clips for a recording.

Catalog & self-record

Browse the catalog, or capture it yourself.

The catalog is open to everyone. Each stream has a detail page with its metadata, a live preview where the source allows it, a Record this stream button that opens the recorder pre-filled, and a copy-paste command to capture it from your own machine.

Browsing

Catalog segments

Recordable: HLS and direct-video streams the hosted recorder accepts.
Still image: snapshot sources that refresh on a poll.
YouTube: view-only streams you can watch and self-record.
Korea: streams from Korean public sources.

Record this yourself

Capture on your own machine

Each detail page gives a command tailored to the stream type. For an HLS or direct-video stream:

ffmpeg -i "<resolved .m3u8 or HTTPS URL>" -t 60 -c copy "stream.mp4"

For a YouTube stream:

yt-dlp "<watch URL>"

Both need the named tool installed. -t 60 records 60 seconds; remove it to record until you stop.