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Add "live_since" timestamp json key for live streams #23812

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nurupo opened this issue Jan 22, 2020 · 3 comments
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Add "live_since" timestamp json key for live streams #23812

nurupo opened this issue Jan 22, 2020 · 3 comments
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@nurupo nurupo commented Jan 22, 2020

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  • I'm reporting a feature request
  • I've verified that I'm running youtube-dl version 2020.01.15
  • I've searched the bugtracker for similar feature requests including closed ones

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YouTube and Twitch live streams provide timestamps of when the ongoing live stream has started. It would be useful to have youtube-dl print those in its json output, e.g. so that you could see in mpv (which uses youtube-dl) how long a stream has been live for. So far youtube-dl provides only year, month and day date, but no exact time.

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@dstftw dstftw commented Jan 22, 2020

  1. timestamp.
  2. Youtube does not provide timestamps.
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@nurupo nurupo commented Jan 22, 2020

The "Started streaming N minutes ago" that you see on YouTube live streams is not exposed in YouTube's API?

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@dstftw dstftw commented Jan 22, 2020

  1. That's not a timestamp and it's not necessarily provided.
  2. youtube-dl has nothing to do with Youtube API.
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