m3u8 downloader

A M3U8 downloader (CLI) written in Golang to download HTTP Live Streaming videos, forked from oopsguy/m3u8 with continuous updates.

You only need to specify the flags(u, o, c) to run, downloader will automatically download all TS files and consolidate them into a single TS file.

Features

• Download and parse M3U8（VOD）
• Retry on download TS failure
• Parse Master playlist
• Decrypt TS
• Merge TS

Usage

Build

git clone https://github.com/http-live-streaming/m3u8-downloader.git
cd m3u8-downloader && go build

Download

• Build Artifacts
• Release Packages

Execution:

Linux

./m3u8-downloader-linux -u=http://example.com/index.m3u8 -o=/data/example

Windows PowerShell

.\m3u8-downloader-win.exe -u="http://example.com/index.m3u8" -o="D:\data\example"

MacOS

./m3u8-downloader-mac -u=http://example.com/index.m3u8 -o=/data/example

References

• HTTP Live Streaming draft-pantos-http-live-streaming-23
• MPEG transport stream - Wikipedia

License

MIT License