N_m3u8DL-RE: Giving It A Try

[A_n_g_e_l_a]

I apologize if I have led people astray. I often forget what I have learned and so Guides are important to me.

No apologies needed Tom, just so newbies know not to grapple with WKS-KEYS anymore.

[agsbond]

Hello, new to N_m3u8DL-RE, but giving it a try.

I have an m3u8 url, but I don't see any license urls in the dev tools (Firefox latest).

This is the command that I used:

N_m3u8DL-RE.exe "https://<myurl>.mp4_chunk.m3u8" --save-name "test" --key <key>

When I run this, I get

Response status code does not indicate success: 403 (Forbidden).

One interesting thing to note is that, the response of the m3u8 file contains this line:

#EXT-X-KEY:METHOD=AES-128,URI="hls.key"

And this hls.key can be found in the network tab with a response that looks something like this -

xxxxxxxxxxxxx== (24 character alphanumberic hash)

This value of hls.key is what I used as <key> in the N_m3u8-RE command.

I also tried with the below command, but got the same error -

N_m3u8DL-RE.exe --use-shaka-packager --custom-hls-method AES_128 --custom-hls-key <key> --s
ave-name test "<m3u8_url>"

Any ideas on why I am getting a 403? Thanks in advance!

[2nHxWW6GkN1l916N3ayz8HQoi]

Any ideas on why I am getting a 403? Thanks in advance!

You are probably missing some headers. Use stream detector and copy the m3u8 URL as a N_m3u8DL-RE command. That command has the necessary headers appended automatically. Also you should use --custom-hls-key since it doesn't look like widevine.

If still not working, can you give the original video URL? Or at least the m3u8 URL?

[Henryk69]

add mkvmerge.exe to merge video and audio
ep01

N_m3u8DL-RE -M format=mkv "m3u8 url" --save-name ep_01

see video show you how
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUznKUsQjko

Unfortunately, the YouTube video is unavailable

[Babuino]

https://api-proxad.dc2.oqee.net/playlist/v1/live/966/1/live.mpd

Does anyone have the CK from the same link? (changing 966 to 972).
There are 4 groups.

[Babuino]

PSSH:

AAAAdnBzc2gAAAAA7e+LqXnWSs6jyCfc1R0h7QAAAFYIARIQjP vBc/nVBhwxmMLlppnyiRIQLtuYltLJgHfMMBw5W7NoexIQAyToOigB Hgp+zSbC2m3JhxIQiIUBWZlo/qHr2MV/5LsWeBoAKgAyADgASABQAA==

[Henryk69]

PSSH:

AAAAdnBzc2gAAAAA7e+LqXnWSs6jyCfc1R0h7QAAAFYIARIQjP vBc/nVBhwxmMLlppnyiRIQLtuYltLJgHfMMBw5W7NoexIQAyToOigB Hgp+zSbC2m3JhxIQiIUBWZlo/qHr2MV/5LsWeBoAKgAyADgASABQAA==

Thank you very much
Babuino

[Babuino]

You're welcome! Now it would be great if you could share the 4 groups of clearkeys.

[doctorm]

I'm just dipping into shaka-packager. Just to be sure I'm doing this right, I went to https://github.com/shaka-project/shaka-packager, downloaded packager-win-x64.exe, moved it to my n_m3u8dl-re folder and renamed it as shaka-packager.exe, and then added --use-shaka-packager to my command... that's it?

I see no evidence that it is being used. Even the log simply says

EXTRA: shaka-packager => .\N_m3u8DL-RE\shaka-packager.exe

No other evidence.

[Henryk69]

How did you manage to do that, because he unpacks the program in the folder. It is impossible for him to release
shaka-packager.exe

[Henryk69]

Yes, but there are specific websites listed on which this software works, so not all of them and it's not cheap.

[2nHxWW6GkN1l916N3ayz8HQoi]

and then added --use-shaka-packager to my command... that's it?

Yes

[doctorm]

and then added --use-shaka-packager to my command... that's it?

Yes

Thanks. Seemed right, but I expected to see some notation that it was functioning.

[2nHxWW6GkN1l916N3ayz8HQoi]

If you have doubts, you can rename the shaka exe to something random, and you'll notice that when you use the shaka parameter, you'll get "not found" error.

[Mohamet]

Hello,

I bought my first Macbook Air and im trying to install the N_m3u8DL-RE.

I get this error:

MacBook-Air ~ % tar -xzvf N_m3u8DL-RE_Beta_osx-arm64_20230628.tar.gz -C /usr/local/bin/ --strip-components=1 N_m3u8DL-RE_Beta_osx-arm64/N_m3u8DL-RE

tar: could not chdir to '/usr/local/bin/'