How would you approach setting up live streaming capabilities in Bubble.io: Step

Sign up at mux.com and go to Settings → API Access Tokens. Create a new token with Mux Video permissions. Copy the Token ID and Token Secret — these are your API credentials for Bubble. Mux offers a free tier for development.

In Bubble, go to Plugins → API Connector → Add another API named Mux. Set Authentication to HTTP Basic Auth with Token ID as username and Token Secret as password. Create an API call named Create Live Stream: POST to https://api.mux.com/video/v1/live-streams. Set the body to JSON with playback_policy set to public. Initialize the call. The response includes a stream_key and playback_ids.

1POST https://api.mux.com/video/v1/live-streams
2
3Body:
4{
5  "playback_policy": ["public"],
6  "new_asset_settings": {"playback_policy": ["public"]}
7}
8
9Response includes:
10  stream_key: "live_xxx..."
11  playback_ids: [{"id": "xxx", "policy": "public"}]

Create a Data Type called LiveStream with fields: Mux_ID (text), Stream_Key (text), Playback_ID (text), Status (text), Host (User), and Viewer_Count (number). On your viewing page, add an HTML element with the Mux Player web component. Load the player script in Settings → SEO → header scripts. Set the playback-id attribute dynamically using the LiveStream record's Playback_ID.

1<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/@mux/mux-player"></script>
2<mux-player
3  stream-type="live"
4  playback-id="PLAYBACK_ID_HERE"
5  autoplay
6  muted
7></mux-player>

In Mux dashboard → Webhooks, add an endpoint pointing to your Bubble backend workflow URL. In Bubble, create a backend workflow called mux-webhook. Handle events: video.live_stream.active sets Status to active and records Started_At, video.live_stream.idle sets Status to idle. Update the LiveStream record based on the Mux stream ID in the webhook payload.

Create a Get Live Stream API call (GET /video/v1/live-streams/{id}) to fetch current viewer count. Schedule a backend workflow that polls every 30 seconds while the stream is active. Display Viewer_Count on the stream page. Add a Go Live button for hosts that creates a new LiveStream and shows the stream key for OBS. Add an End Stream button that calls the Mux disable endpoint. For advanced streaming with chat, donations, and multi-camera, RapidDev can help architect a complete platform.