I am trying to save livestreams using youtube-dl API in python with the following code. Since it's a continuous live stream there is no end to the video, so I am using hls-use-mpegts as a way to periodically read the video for processing, that flag makes .mp4.part files playable.
Although the hls-use-mpegts option works well with the command-line thus:
youtube-dl -f worst <some URL> --retries infinite --continue --hls-use-mpegts
it doesn't seem to work with this code. I don't see any errors but don't see the file being saved in mpegts format. Do I have the options setting correct?
ydl_opts = {
'format': 'worst',
'retries': 99,
'continue': True,
'hls-use-mpegts': True
}
with youtube_dl.YoutubeDL(ydl_opts) as ydl:
ydl.download([url])
It's because (sorry for saying that) the docs is somewhat good&shitt* at the same time. I found every switches/cli-options that you were to use within Python you have to replace - (dash) to _ (sub dash).
In your case, hls_use_mpegts is the solution.
Read/explore about that here: https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/blob/5208ae92fc3e2916cdccae45c6b9a516be3d5796/youtube_dl/downloader/common.py#L50 and here: https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/blob/5208ae92fc3e2916cdccae45c6b9a516be3d5796/youtube_dl/__init__.py#L428
or just browse as I do usually for those inconveniences: https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/search?q=hls_use_mpegts%3A (fortunately GitHub does a really good job at this, and u don't have to have the src code downloaded to be searched)
Otherwise it's fun to use yt-dl, thanks for them!