real-m3u8-url-batch-downloader

this is a m3u8 url batch download tool by a python beginner. Test in Windows, but support for linux and MacOS maye. Only for study.

**Usage**:
    -u       m3u8 URL address,should be used with -o together
    -o       output media's name, should be used with -u together
    -r       restore all uncomplete task
    -s       show all history tasks
    -h       this message.

for example, create a new online m3u8 download task, where m3u8 URI locate at http://live.us.sinaimg.cn/003KBuuJjx07mnPN1eFh070d01000pkH0k01.m3u8 , you could execute the following command in Windows original CMD shell or nice console emulators, such as cmder:

python start.py -u http://live.us.sinaimg.cn/003KBuuJjx07mnPN1eFh070d01000pkH0k01.m3u8 -o 2018ICS中国.mp4

Features:

1. concurrence batch download online m3u8.

2. auto merge all TS files and convert to a single MP4 file, and support specify path.

3. continue download all uncomplete tasks.

   python start.py -r

4. save download list file(history.json) in UTF-8 Character coding, and downloaded file name support UNICODE and ASCII by sys.getfilesystemcoding()

5. show all download history python start.py -s

6. download split TS files and clear temp files and path automatically.

For Windows User:

you should download all .exe file in this Repo with start.py in same path.

For Linux user:

you should download and install aria2, FFmpeg.

For Mac user:

should brew download and install aria2,ffmpeg.

TODO:

• show history task.

• expose more aria2c control parameters to user, a new aria2c configure file maybe a good idea.

• change system command rmdir, rm, del,cat , path and somthing etc. to compatible with Mac or Linux systems.

• sniffer or crawl method to get m3u8 URI easy.

• parse m3u8 format more compatible,refer to globocom/m3u8

• parse URL more comprehensive, refer to urlparse or urllib.parse

• refactoring code with python3.

More Reference:

aria2c https://aria2.github.io/

FFmpeg http://ffmpeg.org/