This is not an ffmpeg solution, but the Internet Archive has a large repository of TV News content that includes 24/7 MSNBCfeeds: https://archive.org/details/tv?q=MSNBC
For your consideration. Best, - Dan On Fri, Mar 4, 2022 at 2:44 PM Paul B Mahol <one...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 3/4/22, Bo Berglund <bo.bergl...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Sat, 9 Oct 2021 03:23:52 +0300, Anatoly <anat...@kazanfieldhockey.ru> > > wrote: > > > >>On Thu, 07 Oct 2021 10:27:51 +0200 > >>Bo Berglund <bo.bergl...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > >>> On Wed, 1 Sep 2021 16:30:00 +0300, anat...@kazanfieldhockey.ru wrote: > >>> > >>> >Right, you need m3u8. > >>> >F12->Network->Enter "m3u8" in the textbox above the list to filter > >>> >out. > >>> >> Is there a command line call I can make to extract the m3u8 URL > >>> >> automatically so > >>> >> it can be used in a script only supplied the main page URL? > >>> >To get url of the first m3u8 from the page (this page actually has > >>> >only one) curl "https://www.livenewsmag.com/msnbc-news-live-stream/"; > >>> >| grep -o -e "https://.\+m3u8"; | head -n 1 > >>> > > > >>> Coming back to this issue again since the command you suggested has > >>> stopped working... > >>> I am trying this command and I get an empty result: > >>> > >>> $ curl -s "https://msnbcdailyshows.com/"; | grep -o -e > >>> "https://.\+m3u8"; | head -n 1 > >>> > >>> The page above does have an embedded video player but your command for > >>> extraction of the m3u8 URL returns an *empty* output... > >>> > >>> But it does work on other such pages like this: > >>> > >>> $ curl -s "https://www.livenewsmag.com/msnbc-news-live-stream"; | grep > >>> -o -e "https://.\+m3u8"; | head -n 1 > >>> > https://1420543146.rsc.cdn77.org/Z5XPzYjFisC9SrZHwPgDUg==,1633615580/LS-ATL-54548-10/index.m3u8 > >>> > >>> Why is the command working on one URL but not the other? > > > >>Because as Moritz Barsnick <barsn...@gmx.net> Wed, 1 Sep 2021 15:37:21 > >>+0200 already told you: > >>"There's often a lot of magic involved in extracting the video URLs from > >>webpages - parsing JavaScript, downloading and parsing JSON files, > >>re-using cookies and referrers, and so on." > >> > >>So this is very hard, nearly to impossible to create a tool or > >>receipe that will automatically extract video urls on *any* arbitrary > >>page. Last time I just took a quick look at www.livenewsmag.com and > >>found a simple solution for you, because that page is simple enough. > >>Now let's do the same: > >> > >>#!/bin/sh > >>#resolution here may be: prem, 720, 480, 240 > >>resolution="480" > >>sdate=`date "+%Y%m%d-%H%M"` > >>filename="rec-msnbc1-${sdate}.mp4" > >>msn1url="https://msnbcdailyshows.com/"; > >>ggid=`curl $msn1url | grep -o -e "https://goodgame\.ru/player?[0-9]\+"; > >>| grep -o -e "[0-9]\+"` > >>m3u8url="https://hls.goodgame.ru/hls/${ggid}_${resolution}.m3u8"; > >>ffmpeg -user_agent "Mozilla" -i $m3u8url -c copy $filename > >> > >>Also this page contains url of youtube stream of same program, which > >>can be extracted with > >>curl "https://msnbcdailyshows.com/"; | grep -o -e > >>"https://youtu.be/[0-9a-zA-Z]\+ <https://youtu.be/%5B0-9a-zA-Z%5D%5C+>" > >>and then fed to youtube-dl > > > > I return again to this subject because the extraction I have used for a > > long > > time now has failed again, probably because part of it is a russian site > so > > they > > changed to something else... > > > > With the war in Ukraine I would very much like to record the MSNBC stream > > nightly using ffmpeg and it seems impossible now. > > I have tried my two ffmpeg formats using the page url: > > > > https://msnbcdailyshows.com/ > > > > and the m3u8 URL I find if I use F12 in the browser when it plays: > > > > https://cdn.plt.one/cdn/premium327/chunks.m3u8 > > > > But my ffmpeg command does not work with these... > > Example (on one line): > > > > ffmpeg -hide_banner -referer \"https://msnbcdailyshows.com/\"; -i > > https://cdn.plt.one/cdn/premium327/chunks.m3u8 -vf scale=w=-4:h=480 > -c:v > > libx264 -preset fast -crf 26 -c:a copy -t 120 test1.mp4 > > > > It fails to actually get any data, so much tghat the timeout does not > even > > trigger... > > > > What can be done to get this working again? > > It is premium content for users that pay. > > > > > > > -- > > Bo Berglund > > Developer in Sweden > > > > _______________________________________________ > > ffmpeg-user mailing list > > ffmpeg-user@ffmpeg.org > > https://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-user > > > > To unsubscribe, visit link above, or email > > ffmpeg-user-requ...@ffmpeg.org with subject "unsubscribe". > > > _______________________________________________ > ffmpeg-user mailing list > ffmpeg-user@ffmpeg.org > https://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-user > > To unsubscribe, visit link above, or email > ffmpeg-user-requ...@ffmpeg.org with subject "unsubscribe". > _______________________________________________ ffmpeg-user mailing list ffmpeg-user@ffmpeg.org https://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-user To unsubscribe, visit link above, or email ffmpeg-user-requ...@ffmpeg.org with subject "unsubscribe".
