Hello.

I'm looking for a tool that will harvest links to video streams from the web. I'm looking for all formats (MMS, RTMP, RTSP, HTTP, HLS, etc).

Ideally the script would capture the link, metadata such as title, description, and genre. And if it could TEST if the stream was live/valid that would be a big plus.

Also would like to harvest the links to videos in online vodcasts such as CNN, BBC, ESPN podcasts.

Does anyone know of such a script?

I've seen the Windows applications that will download streams to your computer. Those are similar in concept, but I don't need to download the streams, I actually just need the links to the streams because I am focusing on live content. So this would ideally be run on a server and be written in python or perl.

If this doesn't exist yet, would anyone be interested in having this? If there is some interest I can spend some time to write it myself.

Thanks.