streamlink

Release 0.3.0 of Streamlink!

A lot of updates to each plugin (thank you @beardypig !), automated Windows releases, PEP8 formatting throughout Streamlink are some of the few updates to this release as we near a stable 1.0.0 release.

Main features are:

• Lot's of maintaining / updates to plugins
• General bug and doc fixes
• Major improvements to development (github issue templates, automatically created releases)

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Agustín Carrasco <[email protected]> (1):
      Links on crunchy's rss no longer contain the show name in the url (#379)

Brainzyy <[email protected]> (1):
      Add basic tests for stream.me plugin (#391)

Javier Cantero <[email protected]> (2):
      plugins/twitch: use version v3 of the API
      plugins/twitch: use kraken URL

John Smith <[email protected]> (3):
      Added support for bongacams.com streams (#329)
      streamlink_cli.main: close stream_fd on exit (#427)
      streamlink_cli.utils.progress: write new line at finish (#442)

Max Riegler <[email protected]> (1):
      plugins.chaturbate: new regex (#457)

Michiel Sikma <[email protected]> (1):
      Update PLAYER_VERSION, as old one does not return data. Add ability to use streams with /embed/video in the URL, from embedded players. (#311)

Mohamed El Morabity <[email protected]> (6):
      Add support for pluzz.francetv.fr (#343)
      Fix ArteTV plugin (#385)
      Add support for Canal+ TV group channels (#416)
      Update installation instructions for Fedora (#443)
      Add support for Play TV (#439)
      Use token generator for HLS streams, as for HDS ones (#466)

RosadinTV <[email protected]> (1):
      --can-handle-url-no-redirect parameter added (#333)

Stefan Hanreich <[email protected]> (1):
      added chocolatey to the documentation (#380)

bastimeyer <[email protected]> (3):
      Automatically create Github releases
      Set changelog in automated github releases
      Add a github issue template

beardypig <[email protected]> (55):
      plugins.tvcatchup: site layout changed, updated the stream regex to accommodate the change (#338)
      plugins.streamlive: streamlive.to have added some extra protection to their streams which currently prevents us from capturing them (#339)
      cli: add command line option to specific logging path for subprocess errorlog
      plugins.trtspor: added support for trtspor.com (#349)
      plugins.kanal7: fixed page change in kanal7 live stream (#348)
      plugins.picarto: Remove the unreliable rtmp stream (#353)
      packaging: removed the built in backports infavour of including them as dependencies when required (#355)
      Boost the test coverage a bit (#362)
      plugins: all regex string should be raw (#361)
      ci: build and test on Python 3.6 (+3.7 on travis, with allowed failure) (#360)
      packages.flashmedia: fix bug in AMFMessage (#359)
      tests: use mock from unittest when available otherwise fallback to mock (#358)
      stream.hls: try to retry stream segments (#357)
      tests: add codecov config file (#363)
      plugins.picarto: updated plugin to use tech_switch divs to find the stream parameters
      plugins.mitele: support for live streams on mitele.es
      docs: add a note about python-devel needing to be installed in some cases
      docs/release: generate the changelog as rst instead of md
      plugins.adultswim: support https urls
      use iso 8601 date format for the changelog
      plugins.tf1: added plugin to support tf1.fr and lci.fr
      plugins.raiplay: added plugin to support raiplay.it
      plugins.vaughnlive: updated player version and info URL (#383)
      plugins.tv8cat: added support for tv8.cat live stream (#390)
      Fix TF1.fr plugin (#389)
      plugins.stream: fix a default scheme handling for urls
      Add support for some Bulgarian live streams (#392)
      rtmp: fix bug in redirect for rtmp streams
      plugins.sportal: added support for the live stream on sportal.bg
      plugins.bnt: update the user agent string for the http requests
      plugins.ssh101: update to support new site layout
      Optionally use FFMPEG to mux separate video and audio streams (#224)
      Support for 4K videos in YouTube (#225)
      windows-installer: add the version info to the installer file
      include CHANGELOG.rst instead of .md in the egg
      stream.hls: output duplicate streams for HLS when multiple streams of the same quality are available
      stream.ffmpegmux: fix support for avconv, avconv will be used if ffmpeg is not found
      Adultswin VOD support (#406)
      Move streamlink_cli.utils.named_pipe in to streamlink.utils
      plugins.rtve: update plugin to support new streaming method
      stream.hds: omit HDS streams that are protected by DRM
      Adultswin VOD fix for live show replays (#418)
      plugins.rtve: add support for legacy stream URLs
      installer: remove the streamlink bin dir from %PATH% before installing
      plugins.twitch: only check hosted channels when playing a live stream
      docs: tweaks to docs and docs build process
      Fix iframe detection for BTN/cdn.bg streams (#437)
      fix some regex that give deprecation warnings in python 3.6
      plugins.adultswim: correct behaviour for archived streams
      plugins.nineanime: add scheme to grabber api url if not present
      session: add an option to disable Diffie Hellman key exchange
      plugins.srgssr: added support for srg ssr sites: srf, rts and rsi
      plugins.srgssr: fixed bug in api URL and fixed akamai urls with authparams
      cli: try to terminate the player process before killing it (if terminate takes too long)
      plugins.swisstxt: add support for the SRG SSR sites sports sections

fozzy <[email protected]> (1):
      Add plugin for huajiao.com and zhanqi.tv (#334)

sqrt2 <[email protected]> (1):
      Fix swf_url in livestream.com plugin (#428)

stepshal <[email protected]> (1):
      Remove trailing.

stepshal <[email protected]> (2):
      Add blank line after class or function definition (#408)
      PEP8 (#414)

Release 0.2.0 of Streamlink!

We've done numerous changes to plugins as well as fixed quite a few which were originally failing. Among these changes are updated docs as well as general UI/UX cleaning with console output.

The main features are:

• Additional plugins added
• Plugin fixes
• Cleaned up console output
• Additional documentation (contribution, installation instructions)

Again, thank you everyone whom contributed to this release! :D

Beardypig <[email protected]> (6):
      Turkish Streams Part III (#292)
      coverage: include streamlink_cli in the coverage, but exclude the vendored packages (#302)
      Windows command line parsing fix (#300)
      plugins.atresplayer: add support for live streams on atresplayer.com (#303)
      Turkish Streams IV (#305)
      Support for local files (#304)

Charlie Drage <[email protected]> (2):
      Spelling error in release script
      Fix issue with building installer

Fishscene <[email protected]> (3):
      Updated homepage
      Updated README.md
      Fixed type in README.md.

Forrest <[email protected]> (3):
      Modify the browser redirect (#191)
      Update client ID (#241)
      Update requests version after bug fix (#239)

Josip Ponjavic <[email protected]> (1):
      Add NixOS install instructions

Simon Bernier St-Pierre <[email protected]> (1):
      add contributing guidelines

bastimeyer <[email protected]> (1):
      Add metadata to Windows installer

beardypig <[email protected]> (25):
      plugins.nhkworld: update the plugin to use the new HLS streams
      plugins.picarto: updated the plugin to use the new javascript and support HLS streams
      add pycryptodome==3.4.3 to the setup.py dependencies
      plugins.nineanime: added a plugin to support 9anime.to
      plugins.nineanime: update the plugin matrix in the docs
      plugins.atv: add support for the live stream on atv.com.tr
      include omxplayer in the list of players in the documentation
      update the player docs with findings from @Junior1544 and @stevekmcc
      plugins.bigo: support for bigo.tv
      docs: move pycryptodome to the list of automatically installed libraries in the docs
      plugins.dingittv: add support for dingit.tv
      plugins.crunchyroll: support ultra quality for subscribers
      update URL for docs to point to the github.io page
      stream.hls: stream the HLS segments out to the player as they are downloaded, decrypting on the fly
      installer: install the required MS VC++ runtime files beside the python installation (see takluyver/pynsist/pull/87)
      plugins.bigo: FlashVars regex updated due to site change
      add some license notices for the bundled libraries
      plugins.youtube: support additional live urls
      add support for a few Turkish live streams
      plugins.foxtr: add support for turkish fox live streams
      plugins.kralmuzik: basic support for the HLS stream only
      stream.hds: added option to force akamai authentication plugins.startv: refactored in to a base class, to be used in other plugins that use the same hosting as StarTV plugins.kralmuzik: refactored to use StarTVBase plugins.ntv: added NTV support
      plugins.atv: add support for a2tv which is very similar to atv
      plugins.dogan: support for teve2, kanald, dreamtv, and ccnturk via the same plugin
      plugins.trt: added support for the live channels on trt.net.tr

che <[email protected]> (1):
      plugins.twitch: support for clips added

ioblank <[email protected]> (1):
      Use ConsoleOutput for run-as-root warning

mmetak <[email protected]> (3):
      Update install instruction (#257)
      Add links for windows portable version. (#299)
      Add package maintainers to docs. (#301)

thatlinuxfur <[email protected]> (1):
      Added tigerdile.com support. (#221)

A major update to Streamlink.

With this release, we include a Windows binary as well as numerous plugin changes and fixes.

The main features are:

• Windows binary (and generation!) thanks to the fabulous work by @beardypig
• Multiple plugin fixes
• Remove unneeded run-as-root (no more warning you when you run as root, we trust that you know what you're doing)
• Fix stream quality naming issue

Beardypig <[email protected]> (13):
      fix stream quality naming issue with py2 vs. py3, fixing #89 (#96)
      updated connectcast plugin to support the new rtmp streams; fixes #93 (#95)
      Fix for erroneous escape coding the livecoding plugin. Fixes #106 (#121)
      TVPlayer.com: fix for 400 error, correctly set the platform parameter (#123)
      Added a method to automatically determine the encoding when parsing JSON, if no encoding is provided. (#122)
      when retry-streams and twitch-disable-hosting arguments are used the stream is retried until a non-hosted stream is found (#125)
      plugins.goodgame: Update for API change (#130)
      plugins.adultswim: added a new adultswim.com plugin (#139)
      plugins.goodgame: restored DDOS protection cookie support (#136)
      plugins.younow: update API url (#135)
      plugins.euronew: update to support the new site (#141)
      plugins.webtv: added a new plugin to support web.tv (#144)
      plugins.connectcast: fix regex issue with python 3 (#152)

Brainzyy <[email protected]> (1):
      Add piczel.tv plugin (courtesy of @intact) (#114)

Charlie Drage <[email protected]> (1):
      Update release scripts

Erk- <[email protected]> (1):
      Changed the twitch plugin to use https instead of http as discussed in #103 (#104)

Forrest <[email protected]> (2):
      Modify the changelog link (#107)
      Update cli to note a few windows issues (#108)

Simon Bernier St-Pierre <[email protected]> (1):
      change icon

Simon Bernier St-Pierre <[email protected]> (1):
      finish the installer (#98)

Stefan <[email protected]> (1):
      Debian packaging base (#80)

Stefan <[email protected]> (1):
      remove run-as-root option, reworded warning #85 (#109)

Weslly <[email protected]> (1):
      Fixed afreecatv.com url matching (#90)

bastimeyer <[email protected]> (2):
      Improve NSIS installer script
      Remove shortcut from previous releases on Windows

beardypig <[email protected]> (8):
      plugins.cybergame: update to support changes to the live streams on the cybergame.tv website
      Use pycryptodome inplace of pyCrypto
      Automated build of the Windows NSIS installer
      support for relative paths for rtmpdump
      makeinstaller: install the streamlinkrc file in to the users %APPDATA% directory
      remove references to livestreamer in the win32 config template
      stream.rtmpdump: fixed the rtmpdump path issue, introduced in 6bf7fd7
      pin requests to <2.12.0 to avoid the strict IDNA2008 validation

ethanhlc <[email protected]> (1):
      fixed instance of livestreamer (#99)

intact <[email protected]> (1):
      plugins.livestream: Support old player urls

mmetak <[email protected]> (2):
      fix vaughnlive.tv info_url (#88)
      fix vaughnlive.tv info_url (yet again...) (#143)

skulblakka <[email protected]> (1):
      Overworked Plugin for ZDF Mediathek (#154)

sqrt2 <[email protected]> (1):
      Fix ORF TVthek plugin (#113)

tam1m <[email protected]> (1):
      Fix zdf_mediathek TypeError (#156)

The second ever release of Streamlink!

In this release we've not only set the stepping stone for the further development of Streamlink (documentation site updated, CI builds working) but we're already fixing bugs and implementing features past the initial fork of livestreamer.

The main features of this release are:

• New windows build available and generated via pyinstaller
• Multiple provider bug fixes (twitch, picarto, itvplayer, crunchyroll, periscope, douyutv)
• Updated and reformed documentation which also includes our site https://streamlink.github.io

As always, below is a git shortlog of all changes from the previous release of Streamlink (0.0.1) to now (0.0.2).

Brainzyy <[email protected]> (1):
      add stream.me to the docs

Charlie Drage <[email protected]> (9):
      Add script to generate authors list / update authors
      Add release script
      Get setup.py ready for a release.
      Revert "Latest fix to plugin from livestreamer"
      0.0.1 Release
      Update the README with installation notes
      Update copyright author
      Update plugin description on README
      It's now 2016

Forrest <[email protected]> (1):
      Add a coverage file (#54)

Forrest Alvarez <[email protected]> (4):
      Modify release for streamlink
      Remove faraday from travis run
      Remove tox
      Add the code coverage badge

Latent Logic <[email protected]> (1):
      Picarto plugin: multistream workaround (fixes #50)

Maschmi <[email protected]> (1):
      added travis build status badge fixes #74 (#76)

Randy Taylor <[email protected]> (1):
      Fix typo in issues docs and improve wording (#61)

Simon Bernier St-Pierre <[email protected]> (8):
      add script to build & copy the docs
      move makedocs.sh to script/
      Automated docs updates via travis-ci
      prevent the build from hanging
      fix automated commit message
      add streamboat to the docs
      disable docs on pull requests
      twitch.tv: add option to disable hosting

Simon Bernier St-Pierre <[email protected]> (2):
      Don't delete everything if docs build fail (#62)
      Create install script for pynsist (#27)

beardypig <[email protected]> (3):
      TVPlayer plugin supports the latest version of the website
      crunchyroll: decide if to parse the stream links as HLS variant playlist or plain old HLS stream (fixes #70)
      itvplayer: updated the productionId extraction method

boda2004 <[email protected]> (1):
      fixed periscope live streaming and allowed url re (#79)

ethanhlc <[email protected]> (1):
      fixed instances of chrippa/streamlink to streamlink/streamlink

scottbernstein <[email protected]> (1):
      Latest fix to plugin from livestreamer

steven7851 <[email protected]> (1):
      Update plugin.douyutv

The first release of Streamlink!

This is the first release from the initial fork of Livestreamer. We aim to have a concise, fast review process and progress in terms of development and future releases.

Below is a complete shortlog of all past commits as well as the merged changes. This will serve as a base-point as we continue development of "Streamlink".

New releases will include a list of changes as we add new features / code refactors to the existing code-base.

Agustin Carrasco <[email protected]> (2):
      plugins.crunchyroll: added support for locale selection
      plugins.crunchyroll: use locale parameter on the header's user-agent as well

Alan Love <[email protected]> (3):
      added support for livecoding.tv
      removed printing
      updated plugin matrix

Alexander <[email protected]> (1):
      channel info url change in afreeca plugin

Andreas Streichardt <[email protected]> (1):
      Add Sportschau

Anton <[email protected]> (2):
      goodgame ddos validation
      add stream_id with words

Benedikt Gollatz <[email protected]> (1):
      Add support for ORF TVthek livestreams and VOD segments

Benoit Dien <[email protected]> (1):
      Meerkat plugin

Brainzyy <[email protected]> (1):
      fix azubu.tv plugin

Charlie Drage <[email protected]> (9):
      Update the README
      Fix travis
      Rename instances of "livestreamer" to "streamlink"
      Fix travis
      Add script to generate authors list / update authors
      Get setup.py ready for a release.
      Add release script
      Revert "Latest fix to plugin from livestreamer"
      0.0.0 Release

Charmander <[email protected]> (1):
      plugins.picarto: Update for API and URL change

Chris-Werner Reimer <[email protected]> (1):
      fix vaughnlive plugin #897

Christopher Rosell <[email protected]> (7):
      plugins.twitch: Handle subdomains with dash in them, e.g. en-gb.
      cli: Close output on exit.
      Show a brief usage when no option is specified.
      cli: Fix typo.
      travis: Use new artifacts tool.
      docs: Fix readthedocs build.
      travis: Build installer exe aswell.

Daniel Meißner <[email protected]> (2):
      plugin: added media_ccc_de api and protocol changes
      docs/plugin_matrix: removed needless characters

Dominik Sokal <[email protected]> (1):
      plugins.afreeca: fix stream

Ed Holohan <[email protected]> (1):
      Quick hack to handle Picarto changes

Emil Stahl <[email protected]> (1):
      Add support for viafree.dk

Erik G <[email protected]> (7):
      Added plugin for Dplay.
      Added plugin for Dplay and removed sbsdiscovery plugin.
      Add HLS support, adjust API schema, no SSL verify
      Add pvswf parameter to HDS stream parser
      Fix Video ID matching, add .no & .dk support, add error handling
      Match new URL, add HDS support, handle incorrect geolocation
      Add API support

Fat Deer <[email protected]> (1):
      Update pandatv.py

Forrest Alvarez <[email protected]> (3):
      Add some python releases
      Add coveralls to after_success
      Remove artifacts

Guillaume Depardon <[email protected]> (1):
      Now catching socket errors on send

Javier Cantero <[email protected]> (1):
      Add new parameter to Twitch usher URL

Jeremy Symon <[email protected]> (2):
      Sort list of streams by quality
      Avoid sorting streams twice

Jon Bergli Heier <[email protected]> (2):
      plugins.nrk: Updated for webpage changes.
      plugins.nrk: Fixed _id_re regex not matching series URLs.

Kari Hänninen <[email protected]> (7):
      Use client ID for twitch.tv API calls
      Revert "update INFO_URL for VaughnLive"
      Remove spurious print statement that made the plugin incompatible with python 3.
      livecoding.tv: fix breakage ("TypeError: cannot use a string pattern on a bytes-like object")
      sportschau: Fix breakage ("TypeError: a bytes-like object is required, not 'str'"). Also remove debug output.
      Update the plugin matrix
      Bump version to 1.14.0-rc1

Marcus Soll <[email protected]> (2):
      Added plugin for blip.tv VOD
      Updated blip.tv plugin

Mateusz Starzak <[email protected]> (1):
      Update periscope.py

Michael Copland <[email protected]> (1):
      Fixed weighting of Twitch stream names

Michael Hoang <[email protected]> (1):
      Add OPENREC.tv plugin and chmod 2 files

Michiel <[email protected]> (1):
      Support for Tour de France stream

Paul LaMendola <[email protected]> (2):
      Maybe fixed ustream validation failure.
      More strict test for weird stream.

Pavlos Touboulidis <[email protected]> (2):
      Add antenna.gr plugin
      Update plugin matrix for antenna

Robin Schroer <[email protected]> (1):
      azubutv: set video_player to None if stream is offline

Seth Creech <[email protected]> (1):
      Added logic to support host mode

Simon Bernier St-Pierre <[email protected]> (5):
      update the streamup.com plugin
      support virtualenv
      update references to livestreamer
      add stream.me plugin
      add streamboat plugin

Summon528 <[email protected]> (1):
      add support to afreecatv.com.tw

Swirt <[email protected]> (2):
      Picarto plugin: update RTMPStream-settings
      Picarto plugin: update RTMPStream-settings

Tang <[email protected]> (1):
      New provider: live.bilibili.com

Warnar Boekkooi <[email protected]> (1):
      NPO token fix

WeinerRinkler <[email protected]> (2):
      First version
      Error fixed when streamer offline or invalid

blxd <[email protected]> (5):
      fixed tvcatchup.com plugin, the website layout changed and the method to find the stream URLs needed to be updated.
      tvcatchup now returns a variant playlist
      tvplayer.com only works with a browser user agent
      not all channels return hlsvariant playlists
      add user agent header to the tvcatchup plugin

chvrn <[email protected]> (4):
      added expressen plugin
      added expressen plugin
      update() => assign with subscript
      added entry for expressen

e00E <[email protected]> (1):
      Fix Twitch plugin not working because bandwith was parsed as an int when it is really a float

fat deer <[email protected]> (1):
      Add Panda.tv Plugin.

fcicq <[email protected]> (1):
      add afreecatv.jp support

hannespetur <[email protected]> (8):
      plugin for Ruv - the Icelandic national television - was added
      removed print statements and started to use quality key as audio if the url extensions is mp3
      the plugin added to the plugin matrix
      removed unused import
      alphabetical order is hard
      removed redundant assignments of best/worst quality
      HLS support added for the Ruv plugin
      Ruv plugin: returning generators instead of a dict

int3l <[email protected]> (1):
      Refactoring and update for the VOD support

intact <[email protected]> (21):
      plugins.artetv: Update json regex
      Updated douyutv.com plugin
      Added plugin for streamup.com
      plugins.streamupcom: Check live status
      plugins.streamupcom: Update for API change
      plugins.streamupcom: Update for API change
      plugins.dailymotion: Add HLS streams support
      plugins.npo: Fix Python 3 compatibility
      plugins.livestream: Prefer standard SWF players
      plugins.tga: Support more streams
      plugins.tga: Fix offline streams
      plugins.vaughnlive: Fix INFO_URL
      Added plugin for vidio.com
      plugins.vaughnlive: Update for API change
      plugins.vaughnlive: Fix app for some ingest servers
      plugins.vaughnlive: Remove debug print
      plugins.vaughnlive: Lowercase channel name
      plugins.vaughnlive: Update for API change
      plugins.vaughnlive: Update for API change
      plugins.livestream: Tolerate missing swf player URL
      plugins.livestream: Fix player URL

jkieberk <[email protected]> (1):
      Change Fedora Package Manager from Yum  to Dnf

kviktor <[email protected]> (2):
      plugins: mediaklikk.hu stream and video support
      update mediaklikk plugin

livescope <[email protected]> (1):
      Add VOD/replay support for periscope.tv

liz1rgin <[email protected]> (2):
      Fix goodgame find Streame
      Update goodgame.py

maop <[email protected]> (1):
      Add Beam.pro plugin.

mindhalt <[email protected]> (1):
      Update redirect URI after successful twitch auth

neutric <[email protected]> (1):
      Update issues.rst

nitpicker <daniel@localhost> (2):
      I doesn't sign the term of services, so I doesnt violate!
      update INFO_URL for VaughnLive

oyvindln <[email protected]> (1):
      Allow https urls for nrk.no.

ph0o <[email protected]> (1):
      Create servustv.py

pulviscriptor <[email protected]> (1):
      GoodGame URL parse fix

scottbernstein <[email protected]> (1):
      Latest fix to plugin from livestreamer

steven7851 <[email protected]> (16):
      plugins.douyutv: Use new api.
      update douyu
      fix cdn..
      fix for Python 3.x..
      use mobile api for reducing code
      fix for non number channel
      add middle and low quality
      fix quality
      fix room id regex
      make did by UUID module
      fix channel on event
      more retries for redirection
      remove useless lib
      try to support event page
      use https protocol
      Update plugin.douyutv

trocknet <trocknet@github> (1):
      plugins.afreeca: Fix HLS stream.

whizzoo <[email protected]> (2):
      Add RTLXL plugin
      Add RTLXL plugin

wolftankk <[email protected]> (3):
      get azubu live status from api
      use new api get stream info
      fix video_player error