aiom3u8downloader

Update package m3u8downloader to use aiohttp to speed up download m3u8 url

Support disguised as img (png/jpg/jpeg) to decode into ts file

aiom3u8downloader base on package m3u8downloader (https://pypi.org/project/m3u8downloader, version: 0.10.1)

ffmpeg is used to convert the downloaded fragments into final mp4 video file.

Installation

To install aiom3u8downloader, simply:

$ sudo apt install -y ffmpeg
# python version >= python3.6
$ pip install aiom3u8downloader

Quick Start

Example command line usage:

aiodownloadm3u8 -o ~/Downloads/foo.mp4 https://example.com/path/to/foo.m3u8

If ~/.local/bin is not in $PATH, you can use full path:

~/.local/bin/aiodownloadm3u8 -o ~/Downloads/foo.mp4 https://example.com/path/to/foo.m3u8

Here is built-in command line help:

usage: aiom3u8downloader [-h] [--version] [--debug] --output OUTPUT
                           [--tempdir TEMPDIR] [--limit_conn LIMIT_CONN]
                           [--auto_rename] URL

download video at m3u8 url

positional arguments:
  URL                   the m3u8 url

optional arguments:
  -h, --help                  show this help message and exit
  --version                   show program's version number and exit
  --debug                     enable debug log
  --output OUTPUT, -o OUTPUT
                              output video filename, e.g. ~/Downloads/foo.mp4
  --tempdir TEMPDIR           temp dir, used to store .ts files before combing them into mp4
  --limit_conn LIMIT_CONN, -conn LIMIT_CONN
                              limit amount of simultaneously opened connections
  --auto_rename, -ar          auto rename when output file name already exists

Limitations

This tool only parses minimum m3u8 extensions for selecting media playlist from master playlist, downloading key and fragments from media playlist. If a m3u8 file doesn't download correctly, it's probably some new extension was added to the HLS spec which this tool isn't aware of.

ChangeLog

• v0.0.1
  • use aiohttp download m3u8 url
• v1.0.3
  • remove multiprocessing package
  • release to pypi