Getting HLS link without opening VLC

chrippa / livestreamer

Command-line utility that extracts streams from various services and pipes them into a video player of choice. No longer maintained, use streamlink or youtube-dl instead.

http://livestreamer.io/

BSD 2-Clause "Simplified" License

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Getting HLS link without opening VLC #1405

Open aar10n opened 8 years ago

aar10n commented 8 years ago

I would like to just get the link given to HLS when using the --player-passthrough hls option. If I add the -v option, i see VLC recieves a .m3u8 link. How can I get that link from the API or the CLI without opening VLC?

10mins commented 8 years ago

http://docs.livestreamer.io/cli.html#cmdoption--stream-url

aar10n commented 8 years ago

Thanks but how could I pass that to a program. If I was using Livestrreamer for an App how could I pass that url along?