Support Live Streamed Videos

[abe-101]

It seems that the download command only downloads transcripts of the uploaded videos
It would be nice to also support videos which are live streamed

[jasontucker]

I agree, it only supports the uploaded videos and doesnt support the live streamed ones. Any thoughts about adding this functionality?

[NotJoeMartinez]

@abe-101 do you have any examples of channels where you experience this issue? I could be an issue with the auto generated subtitles not loading until a period of time after they first streamed.

[NotJoeMartinez]

So we can get all live streamed urls from a channel with:

yt-dlp --flat-playlist --print id "https://www.youtube.com/@channel_name/streams"

This is implemented with get_videos_list function

def get_videos_list(channel_url):
    """
    Scrapes list of all video urls from the channel
    """
    console = Console()

    with console.status("[bold green]Scraping video urls, this might take a little...") as status:
        cmd = [
            "yt-dlp",
            "--flat-playlist",
            "--print",
            "id",
            f"{channel_url}"
        ]
        res = subprocess.run(cmd, capture_output=True, check=True)
        list_of_videos_urls = res.stdout.decode().splitlines()

    return list_of_videos_urls 

This will work the same with channel_url + "/streams" so the solution is to somehow extend this functions
return values with the results from a search using the /streams path.

[NotJoeMartinez]

Added in "Support Live Streamed Videos #112"

[abe-101]

seeing this now

do you still need help testing out live streams?

[NotJoeMartinez]

If you see any other issues pop up feel free to make another issue, thanks