youtube-stream-status

Small Python3 script to check the status of a YouTube live stream.

Usage: python3 ./check.py [options] <youtube url>
 -q, --quiet  Do not output anything to stdout
 -w, --wait   Keep polling until the stream starts, then exit

The script will exit with code 0 if the stream is online. If used without --wait, will exit with code 2 if the stream is not online.

Use case

Automatically start downloading a live stream once it goes online

STREAM_URL=<url> python3 ./check.py --wait "$STREAM_URL" && ffmpeg -i $(youtube-dl -g "$STREAM_URL") -c copy stream.ts