osklil / hls-fetch

Download and decrypt videos served by the HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) protocol.

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hls-fetch

Introduction

hls-fetch is a small program that downloads and decrypts HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) videos. HLS is commonly used for streaming video on Apple iOS devices.

hls-fetch can download videos from web pages with embedded

It is written in Perl.

Author and Feedback

hls-fetch is written by Oskar Liljeblad oskar@osk.mine.nu.

This software is a work in progress and there are probably many ways it can still be improved. If you'd like to contribute patches, ideas, or bug reports, please don't hesitate contacting me!

License

hls-fetch is copyright (C) 2012 Oskar Liljeblad.

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.

Download

The latest hls-fetch can be downloaded from GitHub:

Requirements

  • Perl 5.10.0 (or later). Debian: perl

  • OpenSSL (only needed for encrypted streams). Debian: openssl

  • HTML::Parser Perl module. Debian: libhtml-parser-perl

  • LWP::UserAgent Perl module. Debian: libwww-perl

  • JSON Perl module. Debian: libjson-perl

  • URI Perl module. Debian: liburi-perl

Usage

All you need to specify on the command line is the URL to fetch. hls-fetch will download the page and look for a

Run 'hls-fetch --help' for further usage information.

Future

On SIGINT and other terminating signals, make sure temporary files are removed.

Autodetect data in URL so that the --embedded/--playlist/--svtplay options are not necessary.

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Download and decrypt videos served by the HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) protocol.


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