Now click on the network tab, type in “m3u8” and make sure ‘all’ is selected.

Navigate to the website or video page and open up the developer console, either by right clicking and clicking “inspect” or pressing ctrl+shift+i I like to use Chrome for this as I find their developer tools easier to handle than firefoxes. I have also tried to use xidel, but to no avail.IF you don’t know or have FFmpeg installed here is the post for you, otherwise follow along to learn how to grab videos from news or sports websites. Not ideal for shows running in the middle of the night over here.

My only way out now is to manually extract m3u8 using Firefox some time close to the start of the show and hope for the best. Notice how they differ only by the id number at the end, yet it seems impossible to get extraction working. That thread ends in a solution for the same multi-source site, but another video source.Īnd this has been working fine ever since I entered it into my script.īut for this source on the same main site it does not work: Is there anyone here who is able to help with a command I can put into a script to extract the m3u8 URL and save it to a text file to be read by the download script? I have asked in several places but as of now I do not have a solution.įor other sites that change the m3u8 URL too I have been able to script the extraction, only not for this site. Then I can paste this into my script and it will be able to download the stream in 1 hour parts.īut I have found that some sites change the m3u8 URL from time to time, so I need to somehow script the extraction of this URL so it can be used with the ffmpeg command. Then in the Network tab I can find the m3u8 item, right click it and select Copy URL. I can get this by opening the webpage holding the video player with the show in Firefox and hit F12. I have an Ubuntu Server 20.04, which I use in order to download US news shows for viewing at times when I am awake.Īnyway I have scripted the downloads and they use ffmpeg commands to download live streams into 852x480 px mp4 video files.īut in order to do this my ffmpeg command needs the m3u8 URL of the actual video stream.

Ffmpeg copy m3u8