Live Stream Replay Storage

A livestream is temporary; the replay is what your audience comes back for. Live stream replay storage is the durable home for that recording — the webinar people register to rewatch, the conference talk, the online course lesson, the community event capture — kept on a permanent URL and served from a global CDN. files.link stores the finished file you export and hands you a stable replay link you can embed, share, or gate behind a signup.

It is not a live ingest or transcoding service; it is where your recorded livestreams live after the broadcast ends.

The upload path is a scriptable three-call REST flow: POST /v1/files/{folderId} returns a presigned url and an id, you PUT the recording bytes straight to storage, then POST /v1/files/confirm-upload with {ids:[...]}. Auth is just your raw API key, so a post-event hook can push every new replay into storage the moment encoding finishes — no manual upload step in your pipeline.

Creators, teams, event organizers, and course platforms all hit the same wall: the streaming platform expires VODs, and per-minute video products get expensive as a replay library grows into a long-tail livestream archive. Twitch removes most VODs within weeks; a copy here stays until you delete it. files.link bills prepaid credits against storage and bandwidth with no per-minute meter, and replays stream from a nearby CDN edge.

Keep this month's busy replays on the standard tier for instant playback, then move rarely-watched back catalog to the cold storage tier (note its minimum retention). Private replays — paid courses, members-only events — live as private files behind short-lived signed URLs your backend mints per viewer, so a link stops resolving once the access window closes.

This page is the storage-and-delivery layer for replay links, not a player or an encoder. For adaptive quality switching, transcode to HLS/DASH with ffmpeg first and upload the playlist and segments as ordinary files; for a single progressive MP4 replay, upload it once and embed the URL. If your job is specifically retaining finished broadcasts, the related live stream archive page covers the broadcast angle, VOD archive storage frames it as general at-rest VOD storage, and stream archive hosting covers hosting completed stream archives — same workflow, different entry points.

A word on scope and honesty. files.link is neutral storage infrastructure for recordings you own or are authorized to keep — your own livestreams, your organization's events, webinars and talks you hold the rights to. It is not the old StreamArchive-style scraper that grabbed other broadcasters' deleted VODs without consent, it has no connection to any third-party streamarchive or CastCache service, and it never pulls streams from any platform on your behalf.

You export the finished replay yourself; files.link gives that authorized recording a permanent, CDN-backed home.