aiom3u8downloader

aiom3u8downloader

Update package m3u8downloader to use aiohttp to speed up download m3u8 url

Support disguised as img (png/jpg/jpeg) to decode into ts file

aiom3u8downloader base on package m3u8downloader (https://pypi.org/project/m3u8downloader, version: 0.10.1)

ffmpeg is used to convert the downloaded fragments into final mp4 video file.

.. _HTTP Live Streaming (HLS): https://developer.apple.com/streaming/

Installation

To install aiom3u8downloader, simply:

.. code-block:: bash

$ sudo apt install -y ffmpeg

python version >= python3.6

$ pip install aiom3u8downloader

Quick Start

Example command line usage:

.. code-block:: bash

aiodownloadm3u8 -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/aiodownloadm3u8 -o ~/Downloads/foo.mp4 https://example.com/path/to/foo.m3u8

Here is built-in command line help:

.. code-block:: text

usage: aiom3u8downloader [-h] [--version] [--debug] --output OUTPUT [--tempdir TEMPDIR] [--limit_conn LIMIT_CONN] [--auto_rename] URL

download video at m3u8 url

positional arguments: URL the m3u8 url

optional arguments: -h, --help show this help message and exit --version show program's version number and exit --debug enable debug log --output OUTPUT, -o OUTPUT output video filename, e.g. ~/Downloads/foo.mp4 --tempdir TEMPDIR temp dir, used to store .ts files before combing them into mp4 --limit_conn LIMIT_CONN, -conn LIMIT_CONN limit amount of simultaneously opened connections --auto_rename, -ar auto rename when output file name already exists

Limitations

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.

ChangeLog

• v0.0.1

  • use aiohttp download m3u8 url

• v1.0.3

  • remove multiprocessing package

  • release to pypi