legistream_backend

This is the Python backend for Legistream.

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Install with pip3:

pip3 install legistream-backend

View project on PyPI: https://pypi.org/project/legistream-backend/.

Info

This package uses different modules to get live stream data from the various Australian parliaments.

Currently supported parliaments:

• Australian Capital Territory
• Federal
• New South Wales
• Northern Territory
• Queensland

Setup

1. Install poetry:

   pip3 install poetry

2. Install/update dependencies with poetry:

   poetry update

3. Install ffmpeg:

   Linux

   sudo apt install ffmpeg

   Mac

   Install with brew:

   brew install ffmpeg

   Windows

   Official Windows builds of ffmpeg can be found here

Usage

Interpreting the streams

Every parliament module returns data as a list of StreamModel objects. Each StreamModel has these 3 properties:

• Stream URL: string
• Stream title: string
• Stream status (is this stream live?): bool
• Stream thumbnail URL (for use in conjuction with legistream-site)

Loop through streams

Note: The ACT is used here just as an example, this works for all the parliament modules.

from legistream_backend.site.act import ACTStreamExtractor

for stream in ACTStreamExtractor().streams:
    print(stream.url,
          stream.title,
          stream.is_live
    )

Notes

1. Run all scripts using poetry:

   poetry run python3 <file>.py

2. The South Australia stream extractor uses code adapted from the streamlink ustreamtv implementation.