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m3u8downloader is a tool to download video at a m3u8 link. `HTTP Live
Streaming (HLS)<https://developer.apple.com/streaming/>`_ is becoming
popular. m3u8 playlist is used by HLS to serve video fragments of different
quality to different clients. This tool supports HLS master playlist and media
playlist. If master playlist is given, it selects the highest resolution
automatically. HLS fragment encryption is supported.
ffmpeg is used to convert the downloaded fragments into final mp4 video file.
Installation
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To install m3u8downloader, simply:
.. code-block:: bash
$ sudo apt install -y ffmpeg
$ pip install --user m3u8downloader
Example command line usage:
.. code-block:: bash
downloadm3u8 -o ~/Downloads/foo.mp4 https://example.com/path/to/foo.m3u8
If ~/.local/bin is not in $PATH, you can use full path:
.. code-block:: bash
~/.local/bin/downloadm3u8 -o ~/Downloads/foo.mp4 https://example.com/path/to/foo.m3u8
Here is built-in command line help:
.. code-block:: bash
usage: m3u8downloader [-h] [--version] [--debug] --output OUTPUT
[--tempdir TEMPDIR] [--concurrency N]
URL
download video at m3u8 url
positional arguments:
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
--version show program's version number and exit
--debug enable debug log
output video filename, e.g. ~/Downloads/foo.mp4
--tempdir TEMPDIR temp dir, used to store .ts files before combing them
into mp4
--concurrency N, -c N
number of fragments to download at a time
This command line tool doesn't have extra documents.
Limitations
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This tool only parses minimum m3u8 extensions for selecting media playlist
from master playlist, downloading key and fragments from media playlist. If a
m3u8 file doesn't download correctly, it's probably some new extension was
added to the HLS spec which this tool isn't aware of.