m3u8_mod.py

#!/usr/bin/env python
# Usage:
# $ ./m3u8_mod.py $M3U8URL | ffmpeg -allowed_extensions ALL -protocol_whitelist pipe,file,http,https,tcp,tls,crypto -i - -movflags faststart -c copy out.mp4

import sys
import requests
import re

if __name__ == u'__main__':
  m3u8_url = sys.argv[1]
  # sys.stderr.write("[info] m3u8: %s\n" % m3u8_url)

  question_idx = m3u8_url.rfind('?')
  if question_idx != -1:
    query = m3u8_url[question_idx:]
  else:
    query = ""
    question_idx = len(m3u8_url)

  slash_idx = m3u8_url.rfind('/', 0, question_idx)
  if slash_idx == -1:
    raise Exception("unexpected")
  else:
    base_url = m3u8_url[:slash_idx+1]

  sess = requests.session()
  result = sess.get(m3u8_url)
  for line in result.text.split('\n'):
    if len(line)==0:
      pass
    elif line[0] != '#':
      print(base_url + line + query)
    else:
      print(line)