BBC M3U8 from youtube is too long

[awahid252]

Description

I'm trying to extract the M3U8 from youtube for BBC Arabic life, but the link is very long and doesn't work. Any help?
here is the M3U8 link:
https://manifest.googlevideo.com/api/manifest/hls_variant/expire/1707556770/ei/QuvGZduDCsul0_wP0dWP6A0/ip/2601%3Acb%3A4280%3A4390%3A452d%3A89d4%3A449b%3Ad25e/id/sjSicV3RmFQ.3/source/yt_live_broadcast/requiressl/yes/xpc/EgVo2aDSNQ%3D%3D/hfr/1/playlist_duration/30/manifest_duration/30/maxh/4320/maudio/1/siu/1/spc/UWF9fzxYeITMgd3Oowd89FmV-toXDlJocZIsw4IBvOZpWTrLoAkpG-zEJ73o/vprv/1/go/1/pacing/0/nvgoi/1/keepalive/yes/fexp/24007246/dover/11/itag/0/playlist_type/DVR/sparams/expire%2Cei%2Cip%2Cid%2Csource%2Crequiressl%2Cxpc%2Chfr%2Cplaylist_duration%2Cmanifest_duration%2Cmaxh%2Cmaudio%2Csiu%2Cspc%2Cvprv%2Cgo%2Citag%2Cplaylist_type/sig/AJfQdSswRQIgBS04Llp1S9Dp-a-aRcyKvJMwlZSazEFRnexwq2rGOgkCIQDGX2ZUivjXnhSP3rcEUBZhgQ5gXSdl8hEnzI7uCXDdDA%3D%3D/file/index.m3u8

[bastimeyer]

Streamlink's youtube plugin is working just fine...

$ streamlink --loglevel=debug 'https://www.youtube.com/@bbcnewsarabic/live' best
[cli][debug] OS:         Linux-6.7.3-1-git-x86_64-with-glibc2.39
[cli][debug] Python:     3.12.1
[cli][debug] OpenSSL:    OpenSSL 3.2.1 30 Jan 2024
[cli][debug] Streamlink: 6.5.1+39.g0acbca3a
[cli][debug] Dependencies:
[cli][debug]  certifi: 2024.2.2
[cli][debug]  isodate: 0.6.1
[cli][debug]  lxml: 5.1.0
[cli][debug]  pycountry: 23.12.11
[cli][debug]  pycryptodome: 3.20.0
[cli][debug]  PySocks: 1.7.1
[cli][debug]  requests: 2.31.0
[cli][debug]  trio: 0.24.0
[cli][debug]  trio-websocket: 0.11.1
[cli][debug]  typing-extensions: 4.9.0
[cli][debug]  urllib3: 2.2.0
[cli][debug]  websocket-client: 1.7.0
[cli][debug] Arguments:
[cli][debug]  url=https://www.youtube.com/@bbcnewsarabic/live
[cli][debug]  stream=['best']
[cli][debug]  --loglevel=debug
[cli][debug]  --player=/usr/bin/mpv
[cli][info] Found matching plugin youtube for URL https://www.youtube.com/@bbcnewsarabic/live
[plugins.youtube][debug] consent target: https://consent.youtube.com/save
[plugins.youtube][debug] consent data: gl, m, app, pc, continue, x, bl, hl, src, cm, set_ytc, set_apyt, set_eom
[plugins.youtube][debug] Using video ID: sjSicV3RmFQ
[plugins.youtube][debug] This video is live.
[utils.l10n][debug] Language code: en_US
[cli][info] Available streams: 144p (worst), 240p, 360p, 480p, 720p, 1080p (best)
[cli][info] Opening stream: 1080p (hls)
[cli][info] Starting player: /usr/bin/mpv
[stream.hls][debug] Reloading playlist
[cli][debug] Pre-buffering 8192 bytes
[stream.hls][debug] First Sequence: 3134403; Last Sequence: 3134417
[stream.hls][debug] Start offset: 0; Duration: None; Start Sequence: 3134415; End Sequence: None
[stream.hls][debug] Adding segment 3134415 to queue
[stream.hls][debug] Adding segment 3134416 to queue
[stream.hls][debug] Adding segment 3134417 to queue
[stream.hls][debug] Writing segment 3134415 to output
[stream.hls][debug] Segment 3134415 complete
[cli.output][debug] Opening subprocess: ['/usr/bin/mpv', '--force-media-title=https://www.youtube.com/@bbcnewsarabic/live', '-']
[stream.hls][debug] Writing segment 3134416 to output
[stream.hls][debug] Segment 3134416 complete
[stream.hls][debug] Writing segment 3134417 to output
[stream.hls][debug] Segment 3134417 complete
[cli][debug] Writing stream to output
[stream.hls][debug] Reloading playlist
[stream.hls][debug] Adding segment 3134418 to queue
[stream.hls][debug] Writing segment 3134418 to output
[stream.hls][debug] Segment 3134418 complete
[cli][info] Player closed
[stream.segmented][debug] Closing worker thread
[stream.segmented][debug] Closing writer thread
[cli][info] Stream ended
[cli][info] Closing currently open stream...

$ mpv "$(streamlink --stream-url 'https://www.youtube.com/@bbcnewsarabic/live' best)"
 (+) Video --vid=1 (h264 1920x1080 30.000fps)
 (+) Audio --aid=1 (aac 2ch 44100Hz)
AO: [pulse] 44100Hz stereo 2ch float
VO: [gpu] 1920x1080 yuv420p
Exiting... (Quit)

[awahid252]

I want to play this on IPTV app. Is there a way to make it work as m3u8?

[bastimeyer]

mpv "$(streamlink --stream-url 'https://www.youtube.com/@bbcnewsarabic/live' best)"

As you can see, the HLS playlist URL (via --stream-url) gets passed to mpv perfectly fine in the second example I've shown you.

[awahid252]

Can you explain please? I'm new to this.