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A script used to convert YT to M3U playlists and play them without Flash
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#!/usr/bin/env python3 | |
# coding: utf-8 | |
# playlist-dl This program can be used to convert YouTube playlists to M3U | |
# playlists | |
# Copyright (C) 2012 Jakob Kramer | |
# This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify | |
# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by | |
# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or | |
# (at your option) any later version. | |
# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, | |
# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of | |
# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the | |
# GNU General Public License for more details. | |
# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License | |
# along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. | |
import os | |
import sys | |
import tempfile | |
from argparse import ArgumentParser | |
from subprocess import check_output, call, CalledProcessError | |
from lxml.html import parse | |
__version__ = '0.2.1' | |
FORMATS = { | |
'mp4': { | |
480: 18, | |
720: 22, | |
1080: 37 | |
}, | |
'webm': { | |
480: 43, | |
720: 45 | |
} | |
} | |
VIEWER = 'vlc' | |
CSS = 'li.playlist-video-item > a:nth-child(1)' | |
def yt2m3u(playlist_url, format=FORMATS['mp4'][480]): | |
root = parse(playlist_url).getroot() | |
root.make_links_absolute(root.base_url) | |
yt_urls = [link.attrib['href'] for link in root.cssselect(CSS)] | |
try: | |
return check_output(['youtube-dl', '-f', str(format), '-g']+yt_urls, | |
universal_newlines=True) | |
except CalledProcessError: | |
return [] # nothing to do, errors are handled below | |
def main(): | |
parser = ArgumentParser(description='Play a YouTube playlist without Flash.') | |
parser.add_argument('url', help='URL of the playlist.') | |
parser.add_argument('-f', '--format', dest='format', choices=FORMATS.keys(), | |
help='The format which will be used to stream the ' | |
'video (default: mp4)', default='mp4') | |
parser.add_argument('-q', '--quality', type=int, dest='quality', default=480, | |
choices=[480, 720, 1080], help='The quality which will' | |
' be used when streaming. (default: 480p)') | |
parser.add_argument('-s', '--save', dest='filename', help='Only save the ' | |
'playlist and quit.') | |
args = parser.parse_args() | |
if args.quality not in FORMATS[args.format]: | |
parser.error('This format does not support the specified quality.') | |
if args.filename is not None: | |
with open(args.filename, 'w') as f: | |
f.writelines(yt2m3u(args.url, FORMATS[args.format][args.quality])) | |
return | |
with tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile('w', suffix='.m3u') as f: | |
f.writelines(yt2m3u(args.url, FORMATS[args.format][args.quality])) | |
f.flush() | |
os.fsync(f.fileno()) | |
call([VIEWER, f.name]) | |
if __name__ == '__main__': | |
main() |
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Give some instructions. I am noobie. I installed python & lxml py but how to run this file ? & how to run this file with the youtube link which I want to convert it to m3u so that my iptv can play the stream (m3u) FILE ?