Streamlink maintenance thread

[Dum4G]

Streamlink is a command-line utility which pipes video streams from various services into video players, such as VLC. Can be hosted on a private server and act as a proxy to big streaming services such as Twitch.tv, YouTube.com, Livestream.com, Dailymotion.com and others. May help to avoid geo-blocks, but should be hosted in a country that is targeted by a geo-blocked source.

May not work for permanent redirection links like https://www.youtube.com/EuronewsUSA/
If you wish to propose to a YT stream the best way to do that is to use a channel address with /live at the end of the link (ex. is above)
Supports various qualities to set if the source provides many, end your link with &quality= (unsure exists, to permit the end user to know which quality's available, best is used as default)

Learn more at https://streamlink.github.io

At the moment we have a few contributors providing their hosts:
http://free.fullspeed.tv/iptv-query?streaming-ip=maintained by @dct-infra

Temporarily down
https://iptv--iptv.repl.co/streamlink?url=https://www.youtube.com/c/kenyacitizentv/live located in US, maintained by @Nintendocustom
https://linkastream.co/headless?url=https://www.youtube.com/c/kenyacitizentv/live located in UK, maintained by @keystroke3

So far it works in:
VLC v3.0.14
Elmedia Video Player v7.17 (freearhey)
Kodi Playlistloader addon (Sphinxroot)
IPTV - Alexander Safronov (Android) (LaneSh4d0w)
Televizo (Independent test)
OTT Navigator (Independent test)

Doesn't work in:
SimpleTV
http://jackal.surge.sh/ and other web clients
GSE Smart IPTV v2.3 (freearhey)
LazyIPTV (Independent test)

You can report back about every other player or IPTV client you use, preferably on Android.

Implements iptv-org/iptv#2158 and iptv-org/iptv#2781

[freearhey]

VLC v3.0.14 - works fine
Elmedia Video Player v7.17 - works fine
GSE Smart IPTV v2.3 - stream loads, but then the endless buffering starts

[Dum4G]

@brianmusundi you're probably watching these channels at least for an hour on a TV set, I'd like to know your opinion on these two

http://salvahe.co/iptv-query?url=https://www.youtube.com/c/kenyacitizentv/live
http://salvahe.co/iptv-query?url=https://www.youtube.com/c/KTNKenya/live

[Sphinxroot]

@brianmusundi you're probably watching these channels at least for an hour on a TV set, I'd like to know your opinion on these two

http://salvahe.co/iptv-query?url=https://www.youtube.com/c/kenyacitizentv/live
http://salvahe.co/iptv-query?url=https://www.youtube.com/c/KTNKenya/live

Working In Kodi Playlistloader addon

[Sphinxroot]

Test those please

#EXTINF:-1 tvg-logo="" group-title="",Radio MRG (Dailymotion)
http://salvahe.co/iptv-query?url=https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x69a2vh

#EXTINF:-1 tvg-logo="" group-title="",BTVStelevision (Twitch)
http://salvahe.co/iptv-query?url=https://www.twitch.tv/btvstelevision/

Working in kodi Playlistloader addon

[Dum4G]

Test those please

Actually does work in VLC, also acts as a proxy server (Dailymotion is blocked for me) 🤯

[Sphinxroot]

Test those please

Actually does work in VLC, also acts as a proxy server (Dailymotion is blocked for me)

All Dailymotion or just this 1 .. might be geoblocked

[Dum4G]

All Dailymotion or just this 1 .. might be geoblocked

It is entirely blocked in my country

[safwan1732]

I want flowers usa

[BellezaEmporium]

Interesting...

[BellezaEmporium]

Works on IPTV (Alexander Sofronov) application (Android) with KCTV

#EXTINF:-1 tvg-logo="" group-title="",Korean Central Television (Twitch.tv / elufatv)
http://salvahe.co/iptv-query?url=https://www.twitch.tv/elufatv

[Sphinxroot]

#EXTINF:-1 tvg-logo="" group-title="",ChilledCat - 24/7 lofi beats to chill (DLive)
http://salvahe.co/iptv-query?url=https://dlive.tv/ChilledCat

it would be a major upgrade if its accepted ... Youtube Dailymotion Twich Dlive , 1k+ Channel could be added .. possibly other Services as well .. i have tested some Fox local with token but it doesnt work

[Dum4G]

it would be a major upgrade if its accepted ...

Just to clarify. This is NOT commercial host from Santa Claus with fancy landing page. It's someone's private proxy that I accidentally found that probably runs on a single cheap VM until it is reasonable to run it. And it seems to be located far away from us. If it's gonna be approved it will only be used for emergency cases like Kenya playlist where official content providers and restreamers do not exist at all. Please don't abuse it for radio sources or something you have an official app for

[BellezaEmporium]

it would be a major upgrade if its accepted ...

Just to clarify. This is NOT commercial host from Santa Claus with fancy landing page. It's someone's private proxy that I accidentally found that probably runs on a single cheap VM until it is reasonable to run it. And it seems to be located far away from us. If it's gonna be approved it will only be used for emergency cases like Kenya playlist where official content providers and restreamers do not exist at all.

Best thing would be to simply get the scripts he does and re-host them to keep the original link safe and sound.

[Dum4G]

Best thing would be to simply get the scripts he does and re-host them to keep the original link safe and sound.

It's running https://streamlink.github.io/index.html I guess

[BellezaEmporium]

Best thing would be to simply get the scripts he does and re-host them to keep the original link safe and sound.

It's running https://streamlink.github.io/index.html I guess

I think I can manage something... Let me see.

[Nintendocustom]

https://iptv--iptv.repl.co/streamlink?url=
example:
https://iptv--iptv.repl.co/streamlink?url=https://www.twitch.tv/elufatv

[dct-infra]

After 3 days of crazy networking work, iptv has now several uplinks to choose from.
Using a single script, IP and location can be changed instantly.
This will bring more flexibility and avoid rate limiting and other concerns when needed.
On the other hand, it might cause issues with geoblocked streams that might or might not work depending on the route used at a particular moment. I'll work on this after the testing period.
Also, when US and EU QS + linkastream will be up again and stable, we'll discuss a better distribution of the proxies in different m3u. Closest to a country/network is listed first.
e.g. LATAM/US/CA lists would only use QS US in order to reduce response times.
And finally now that LaneSh4d0w found a way to minimize ressource usage, iptv has been moved to a dedicated hardware.
If you have questions, remarks, ideas don't hesitate.

[BellezaEmporium]

After 3 days of crazy networking work, iptv has now several uplinks to choose from. Using a single script, IP and location can be changed instantly. This will bring more flexibility and avoid rate limiting and other concerns when needed. On the other hand, it might cause issues with geoblocked streams that might or might not work depending on the route used at a particular moment. I'll work on this after the testing period. Also, when US and EU QS + linkastream will be up again and stable, we'll discuss a better distribution of the proxies in different m3u. Closest to a country/network is listed first. e.g. LATAM/US/CA lists would only use QS US in order to reduce response times. And finally now that LaneSh4d0w found a way to minimize ressource usage, iptv has been moved to a dedicated hardware. If you have questions, remarks, ideas don't hesitate.

The founder of Linkastream needs funds to have a better server than the one he's got, on the latest news he told. Sadly he cannot do so for now. He also moved to query-streamlink since he thought that solution was working better than youtube-dl.

For those who are willing to support @keystroke3 (and maybe bring linkastream back in a better shape) :
PayPal = keystroke33@gmail.com
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ETH = 0x3451cAB3145f80594A454b602C2F23D80A70F114
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As for my side : US and EU QS are limited with the 1 Gb quota / dyno (free service) and 550 hours of uptime / month. Maybe if we divide the links by 2 it'll reduce the memory charge over both sides (but won't divide the uptime by 2, since it's a total).

[BellezaEmporium]

@dct-infra notified me of a future change linked to his streamlink proxy. The address will be replaced soon with http://free.fullspeed.tv/query?url=

He'll wait until full propagation of the new address before killing the iptv.dc-team.com domain.

[SSyar]

replace all - done

[SSyar]

just found out, "/live" can be omitted from the complete url like this http://free.fullspeed.tv/query?url=https://www.youtube.com/c/kenyacitizentv/

[keystroke3]

just found out, "/live" can be omitted from the complete url like this http://free.fullspeed.tv/query?url=https://www.youtube.com/c/kenyacitizentv/

I would still keep the /live so that we have the same format for all implementations. If /live is omitted for a youtube-dl implementation, it will cause the application to get links for all videos on the channel's homepage.
With /live:

ERROR: The channel is not currently live

Without /live:

WARNING: [youtube:tab] A channel/user page was given. All the channel's videos will be downloaded. To download only the videos in the home page, add a "/featured" to the URL

linkastream uses streamlink for quickly fetching youtube streams as it is much faster, but has youtube-dll as a fallback since streamlink can have weird errors sometimes.

[BellezaEmporium]

@dct-infra Website flagged by Cisco Umbrella researchers due to potential "malicious activity".

[dct-infra]

@lanesh4d0w any news?

[BellezaEmporium]

It now answers without any problems.

[dct-infra]

Good news!

[yxyx1980]

can u please add support for ok.ru as it is not working currently
thanks a million for the great work u guys are doing. Is there any way to install ur softwear queeries locally? on ubunto?
Thanks again

[BellezaEmporium]

ok.ru support can't be added for the simple reason that the tokens are ip-locked. for local use, it'll work, but for remote use, we would need to set a proxy that would need to be used on both parties (end user / server giving the request)

[SSyar]

so how come a youtube channel having an unlisted live stream would work ?

[dct-infra]

free.fullspeed.tv
Updates on the rate limit exceeded error issues some users might have faced in the last few days.

• @lanesh4d0w Rate limiting has been completely dropped on the app which is behind an app fw, keeping RL doesn't make sense in this config since the app sees only traffic from the app fw.
• Limits on the app fw have been increased to allow alot more user connections and less per IP simultaneous connections, this keeps flooders/bots/abusers away while preserving the machine resources.
• @freearhey All of Github's action IP ranges will be dealt with later tonight to avoid offline tags on working links. In the meantime if the bot runs, lists might still show offlines.
  More info soon.

[BellezaEmporium]

Great job dealing with it. Looking forward for more news. So far your implementation is the most stable one available.

[dct-infra]

Hello everyone,
Lots of work and tuning since the last post.
@freearhey It's not possible to whitelist all of action IPs atm, too many and quite messy for my homemade filters. i'm not used to Github actions but if you could specify ranges/ips on the scripts(?) it would be gr8.
@lanesh4d0w Rate limiting wasn't the only issue, still looking at it, will keep you updated.
Changes:

• Moved to another hardware again, more powerful.
• Increased allowed total user connections.
• DNS optimzation, the proxy will now resolve *.youtube *.googlevideo.com and *.dailymotion.com to the closest streaming server IPs. This will mainly benefit EU users.

Waiting for the next peak hour to validate.

[dct-infra]

To keep you updated: From Oct 16 00:00 to 23:59 the proxy happily served 70332 requests with 29 [504] errors (0.041%) - unknown reason for now - and 31 [503] errors due to temporary reload cron jobs (0.044%). We're on the right track.

[BellezaEmporium]

504 - Gateway Timeout, could be server not having time to answer everything, or pool overload.

[dct-infra]

Implementation is still beta, 504 can still happen because of timeout values changing/tuning, range is 10-25 secs, so no worries, 504 errs are now very low and 503 are disappearing with less frequent restarts, currently every 7 hours compared to every 15 mins few weeks ago (restart frequency is now increased by 1 hours every 24 to 48 hours to see how everything behaves until dropped completely).

[BellezaEmporium]

For now, your host is very much stable and usable on production. This works quite well.

[SSyar]

https://vic13stre.herokuapp.com/iptv-query?streaming-ip=
i have found this on the internet

[BellezaEmporium]

I know there's lots of forks of my program going back n' forth.

[BellezaEmporium]

Things took an unexpected turn : repl.it extended my plan (thanks to new Student policy) and I'm happy to say that https://query-streamlink.lanesh4d0w.repl.co is now back online as a 3rd mirror ! Works the same as the other ones.

[dct-infra]

The proxy is currently rate limited by youtube on all of its outgoing IP ranges.
dailymotion works well.
As of tonight, I will start by reverting the changes I've made on the url syntax (get back to streaming-ip= & stuff) to be able when needed to pass requests to working unthrottled proxies such as repl heroku etc. (uniformization)
In the midterm, I guess we should unify our resources and specify one unique URL in the files, as an entry point (gateway) and play with requests passing/management at the gateway level. I can provide a multi-homed redundant gateway.
More in few hours...

[BellezaEmporium]

The proxy is currently rate limited by youtube on all of its outgoing IP ranges.
dailymotion works well.
As of tonight, I will start by reverting the changes I've made on the url syntax (get back to streaming-ip= & stuff) to be able when needed to pass requests to working unthrottled proxies such as repl heroku etc. (uniformization)
In the midterm, I guess we should unify our resources and specify one unique URL in the files, as an entry point (gateway) and play with requests passing/management at the gateway level. I can provide a multi-homed redundant gateway.
More in few hours...

No problem for me, maybe we shall add some request counter or something to redirect traffic more efficiently between our services.

[dct-infra]

Done with the changes on the files, waiting for validaiton, now everything is aimed at your repl.co @lanesh4d0w
Tomorrow I'll propose a pool of pxies and I'll set up the redundant gws.
Advantages

• No rate limiting anymore
• Unique entry point, everything is done in the backyard, transparent to the user.
• Redundant, multi-homed and load balanced.

To be done mid-term (lots of stuff actually, I've got less time)

• New even faster pxy in Germany at the heart of the de-cix exchange. This, combined with the last dns optimization changes, will make EU users feel like they're on LAN.

Ideas, proposals, don't hesitate!

[BellezaEmporium]

I'm thinking about writing a program in Node that might solve our "Origin-locked" or "IP-locked" streams.

Few (maybe legal idk) issues :

• Whole stream will be basically transiting through server, meaning that it'll act like a streaming server.
• Not sure today's services could handle such bandwidth (repl seems stable and powerful, but I cannot do this using their servers)
• Robustness and stability must be on their peak.

[dct-infra]

free.fullspeed.tv is now stable again, the pool of heroku+repl urls did not work well since these proxies end up going down or blocked at some time.
So I changed the way things work and we now have a somehow balanced architecture based on one (scalable) entry point and 3 backends.
@lanesh4d0w As for your node project, the legal and operational aspects are risky, copyright notices, TDNs, complaints to uplinks, blacklisting and the like will be too heavy to manage. Can't do that on my network.
I suggest we ask the user base for donations aimed at funding resilient VMs for this project and for more streamlink proxies. I could help with setup, configration and administration.

[BellezaEmporium]

free.fullspeed.tv is now stable again, the pool of heroku+repl urls did not work well since these proxies end up going down or blocked at some time. So I changed the way things work and we now have a somehow balanced architecture based on one (scalable) entry point and 3 backends. @lanesh4d0w As for your node project, the legal and operational aspects are risky, copyright notices, TDNs, complaints to uplinks, blacklisting and the like will be too heavy to manage. Can't do that on my network. I suggest we ask the user base for donations aimed at funding resilient VMs for this project and for more streamlink proxies. I could help with setup, configration and administration.

Yeah I've thought of that too. It was only theoric.

[SSyar]

how to work with a youtube channel with multiple live streams.. e.g https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCraPI8sg-eiNzUrurxhKeEQ

[BellezaEmporium]

My streamlink implementation on repl is down.

Heroku links will come back on December.

[dct-infra]

We should update all files to use free.fullspeed.tv, no caps, no headaches, load balanced and to become extremely fast in the next 24 hours.
Tell me if you want to make the switch.

[BellezaEmporium]

We should update all files to use free.fullspeed.tv, no caps, no headaches, load balanced and to become extremely fast in the next 24 hours. Tell me if you want to make the switch.

I can make the file changes quite quickly. I'll put a PR up.

[SSyar]

Any idea why this YT live link not working
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_vt34wimdCzdkrzVejwX9g/live
If i play this YT link in VLC it works but if but when i play it with stremlink server url it doesnt

[BellezaEmporium]

I'm gonna take a look. I've updated query-streamlink recently with the new Streamlink updates and stuff, hoping it's not this lol.

EDIT : Just YouTube messing up with the stream info.

[BellezaEmporium]

Fun fact, it works on VLC because, in contrary to Streamlink, it doesn't use the get_stream_info endpoint, it uses the JS/HTML files in the YT page to get the URL.

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/videolan/vlc/master/share/lua/playlist/youtube.lua

[Kariton]

I just discovered the hole (query-) streamlink think yesterday.
And I have had to install it! One line there, another port there: BOOM!

Insane! just want to thank you and all other contributors of course.
Will keep an eye on that for sure!

Have you tried to integrate a link as "M3U Tuner" to Jellyfin (Emby - should behave the same?) or plex?
Tried to get the streams there.

If I add my URL like so:
http://localhost/iptv-query?streaming-ip=https://www.youtube.com/c/LofiGirl/live
AND check the Auto-loop live streams. (and without)
It does not play at all but adds several (i think it was 13) new unnamed streams.

VLC does work fine!
I think that I dont need to point out that the .m3u8 file does not contain any names or additional data. ;)

Keep going! love it! :)

[BellezaEmporium]

1. I haven't planned modifying the program to work as a M3U Tuner, Kodi already has a Streamlink plugin built-in. This is "web-axed" I shall say.

2. The most recent version is @dct-infra 's version, he has Streamlink up to latest commit, and has some modifications that we're testing.

3. Appreciate the kind words !

[Kariton]

Thanks for the fast reply. :)

Okay - so M3U Tuner seems to work differently. :)
I understand that this will involve work that needs a "valid" reason for you.

After some googeling TVHeadned seems to be capable of handling streamlink as IPTV source.
Will look into that.

[SSyar]

any working url or fork., for streamlink ? ?