Hello guys, I own a small website, sharing live channels, i use to scrape from web but i cannot find them anymore, and the website is losing traffic because the links are not working anymore. What is the easiest way to get m3u8 links for channels? I own a couple of VDS, I really need enlightening about this topic it's really complicated. Some people ask 1000 Euro per month for the channel m3u8 links.
You can use this ffmpeg command to copy the stream. This also helps making unstable streams that disconnect often more stable.
ffmpeg -y -v error -stats -reconnect 1 -reconnect_at_eof 1 -reconnect_streamed 1 -headers "User-Agent: VLC/3.0.3 LibVLC/3.0.3" -copyts -i {inputStreamUrl} -muxpreload 0 -muxdelay 0 -f hls -segment_list_flags +live -hls_list_size 10 -hls_flags +delete_segments -hls_time 10 -hls_base_url /temp/ -hls_segment_filename temp/out%d.ts -start_number 1 {outputFile}
What is this "small website" any link to it? Will save me buying a sub.
It's what you're trying to do. You can get a m3u8 subscription for under $10 a month but pretty much all providers forbid/prevent restreaming unless it's designed and sold for that purpose (hence the 1k price tag). It appears that your "free ride" may be coming to an end.