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Youtube live stream download ends after 6 hours #20516
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My guess would be that youtube/google itself resets your token/connection after this amount of time. |
Wouldn't this cause the stream you are watching on YT itself to stop as well? I had the stream open next to the CMD and it was still running there. |
Nah. Like, even Google would think about that possibility, and stealthily reset. |
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The token reset seems like a possibility here. YouTube might be refreshing the token after every 6 hour |
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I made a bash script to get a new m3u8 url when ffmpeg stops running. #Explanation:
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#function get() will take 3 paramaters: param 1 is the youtube uri, param 2 is the directory to download to, param 3 is the filename format (includes extension, such as .ts)
#get() then passes these args to function newurl(), along with an extra param which is a starting number for multiple files in the format 1test.ts, 2test.ts and so on. a new video file is created when ffmpeg stops (due to the m3u8 url expiring after 6 hrs)
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#newurl() has 4 input params, 1 is the url, 2 is the directory, 3 is the file name, 4 is the number (from either get() or again())
#newurl() sets its own local vars from the params it gets, and adds one to the temp file number when it gets called again from again()
#newurl() then passes those params over to again()
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#again() takes 5 params, 1 is the file number, 2 is the m3u8 stream url, 3 is the directory, 4 is the file name, 5 is the youtube video url (to be returned to newurl() when the stream url expires)
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#Example usage: get "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21X5lGlDOfg" "C:\tmp" "NASA_TV.ts"
again() {
tempnum=$1
ffmpeg -i $2 -c copy $3$1$4 && newurl $5 $3 $4 $1 #ffmpeg downloads youtube stream to directory, then calls newurl() when ffmpeg stops
}
newurl() {
local m3url=$(youtube-dl -f best -g $1) #store m3u8 stream url from youtube-dl as string
local tempnum=$4 #file number, this is sent to again() so again() can send it back
local tempdir=$2 #also sent to again so it can be sent back
local tempfilename=$3 #also sent to again so it can be sent back
let tempnum+=1 #add 1 to file number recieved from arguments
again ${tempnum} ${m3url} ${tempdir} ${tempfilename} $1 #send required args to again(), and also send url so it can be sent back to newurl()
}
get() {
newurl $1 $2 $3 0 #send args
}
#get "url" "directory" "filename" |
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As I have never used bash I do not understand how I get it to run. |
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Hi, you can run the script by installing git bash on windows. |
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Hi, |
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Same issue. I dont think that it's a url problem as i can continue downloading just by entering the same command after crash. This is a major issue and it is a shame that for more than a year nobody has fixed it. |
I have been downloading live streams on YouTube and noticed that it always ends after 6 hours (+/- a few seconds). At first I thought its something with youtube-dl but after recording it with VLC I got the same result. I looked through the help article but could not find anything related to this. Is there anything you can do about it?
I am aware that this is not the most pressing issue there is because few people are downloading such long live streams (at least I think so) and it might prove difficult to find a solution for this because it seams to be something on YouTube's side.
Due to the immense code output I can not add much of value. I will try my best though.
That is the final output of the download. The part before "[https @ 0000017b829a69c0] HTTP error 403 Forbidden" fills the rest of my cmd window and is not of much use imo.
cheers
PS: In case the devs deem this unnecessary or unsolvable do not hesitate to close this Issue.