Downloading video streams from WST Play

[AmethystZhou]

I'm trying to download videos from WST Play (World Snooker Tour's streaming service).

A bit of context: they have both live streams of current matches and on-demand replays. I can use a browser plugin to get the .m3u8 link and watch the live stream in VLC, or download the replays with yt-dlp. But recently yt-dlp doesn't work anymore with downloading the videos anymore.

Here's an example video that is available for free (you don't need an account either): https://www.wst.tv/videos/9e399a2e-d536-4385-a753-45da828ce197

Trying to download with yt-dlp results in a "requested format is not available" error:

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But if I do "yt-dlp --list-formats" it does detect a few different formats:

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Thanks in advance!

[ListyDoM]

use N_m3u8DL-RE

N_m3u8DL-RE "https://stream.mux.com/CoxnZPdK3yAejhtBN02Cv8eMYhhlG02Ss1f18Lol1lktw.m3u8?token=eyJhbGciOiJSUzI1NiJ9.eyJraWQiOiJ5YmtSOWxJenlua2xEbnhHY3hyaWwwMEt5YTAxT1J2THM0WE5DVW5DNVltclEiLCJzdWIiOiJDb3huWlBkSzN5QWVqaHRCTjAyQ3Y4ZU1ZaGhsRzAyU3MxZjE4TG9sMWxrdHciLCJhdWQiOiJ2IiwiZXhwIjoxNzY0NTkwMjc5fQ.H90v5JqvmUYJwJQE8_6GkrGYqAWeYoCqfIIPap_GK7AUCk7Gfs13djPOyvQnw-t29O_sjKv91bHuyK0Z-Nh-P_0MqENVz1sbL-LqdHNO_br7PlB6fnljGl1wnmmrWjzUy6RF4QDB25Mdo-mCs61bxq8ApCGDYgd1D0taXCc36SZjQgRLaO4tjSmCsBelBQGh-xrmkJjHMlWZ2A-X_21m2v_KkMszt3Fh8idZs4ZVH1VejXni6J1ggj3HoNxnPYQDEKLkkWbyoxjVzSGD-DhbHsIje9pqYt8FNSyRWz-HxoW9oYGQ1_x5zMF4BPMOLQailgkGr8FHzJ1Dy-lhavnTjA" --header "User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/142.0.0.0 Safari/537.36" --header "Referer: https://www.wst.tv/" --save-name "Liam Pullen 147 vs Kaylan Patel - 2025 UK Championship Qualifying"

[AmethystZhou]

use N_m3u8DL-RE

N_m3u8DL-RE "https://stream.mux.com/CoxnZPdK3yAejhtBN02Cv8eMYhhlG02Ss1f18Lol1lktw.m3u8?token=eyJhbGciOiJSUzI1NiJ9.eyJraWQiOiJ5YmtSOWxJenlua2xEbnhHY3hyaWwwMEt5YTAxT1J2THM0WE5DVW5DNVltclEiLCJzdWIiOiJDb3huWlBkSzN5QWVqaHRCTjAyQ3Y4ZU1ZaGhsRzAyU3MxZjE4TG9sMWxrdHciLCJhdWQiOiJ2IiwiZXhwIjoxNzY0NTkwMjc5fQ.H90v5JqvmUYJwJQE8_6GkrGYqAWeYoCqfIIPap_GK7AUCk7Gfs13djPOyvQnw-t29O_sjKv91bHuyK0Z-Nh-P_0MqENVz1sbL-LqdHNO_br7PlB6fnljGl1wnmmrWjzUy6RF4QDB25Mdo-mCs61bxq8ApCGDYgd1D0taXCc36SZjQgRLaO4tjSmCsBelBQGh-xrmkJjHMlWZ2A-X_21m2v_KkMszt3Fh8idZs4ZVH1VejXni6J1ggj3HoNxnPYQDEKLkkWbyoxjVzSGD-DhbHsIje9pqYt8FNSyRWz-HxoW9oYGQ1_x5zMF4BPMOLQailgkGr8FHzJ1Dy-lhavnTjA" --header "User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/142.0.0.0 Safari/537.36" --header "Referer: https://www.wst.tv/" --save-name "Liam Pullen 147 vs Kaylan Patel - 2025 UK Championship Qualifying"

N_m3u8DL-RE worked, thank you very much! I wonder why yt-dlp doesn't...

[LZAA]

yt-dlp "https://stream.mux.com/CoxnZPdK3yAejhtBN02Cv8eMYhhlG02Ss1f18Lol1lktw.m3u8 ?token=eyJhbGciOiJSUzI1NiJ9.eyJraWQiOiJ5YmtSOWxJen lua2xEbnhHY3hyaWwwMEt5YTAxT1J2THM0WE5DVW5DNVltclEi LCJzdWIiOiJDb3huWlBkSzN5QWVqaHRCTjAyQ3Y4ZU1ZaGhsRz AyU3MxZjE4TG9sMWxrdHciLCJhdWQiOiJ2IiwiZXhwIjoxNzY0 NTkwMjc5fQ.H90v5JqvmUYJwJQE8_6GkrGYqAWeYoCqfIIPap_ GK7AUCk7Gfs13djPOyvQnw-t29O_sjKv91bHuyK0Z-Nh-P_0MqENVz1sbL-LqdHNO_br7PlB6fnljGl1wnmmrWjzUy6RF4QDB25Mdo-mCs61bxq8ApCGDYgd1D0taXCc36SZjQgRLaO4tjSmCsBelBQGh-xrmkJjHMlWZ2A-X_21m2v_KkMszt3Fh8idZs4ZVH1VejXni6J1ggj3HoNxnPYQDE KLkkWbyoxjVzSGD-DhbHsIje9pqYt8FNSyRWz-HxoW9oYGQ1_x5zMF4BPMOLQailgkGr8FHzJ1Dy-lhavnTjA" -o Snooker.ts
[generic] Extracting URL: https://stream.mux.com/CoxnZPdK3yAejhtBN02Cv8eMYhhlG02Ss1f18Lol1lktw.m3u8?token=eyJhbG...zJ1Dy-lhavnTjA
[generic] CoxnZPdK3yAejhtBN02Cv8eMYhhlG02Ss1f18Lol1lktw.m3u8 ?token=eyJhbGciOiJSUzI1NiJ9.eyJraWQiOiJ5YmtSOWxJen lua2xEbnhHY3hyaWwwMEt5YTAxT1J2THM0WE5DVW5DNVltclEi LCJzdWIiOiJDb3huWlBkSzN5QWVqaHRCTjAyQ3Y4ZU1ZaGhsRz AyU3MxZjE4TG9sMWxrdHciLCJhdWQiOiJ2IiwiZXhwIjoxNzY0 NTkwMjc5fQ: Downloading webpage
[generic] CoxnZPdK3yAejhtBN02Cv8eMYhhlG02Ss1f18Lol1lktw.m3u8 ?token=eyJhbGciOiJSUzI1NiJ9.eyJraWQiOiJ5YmtSOWxJen lua2xEbnhHY3hyaWwwMEt5YTAxT1J2THM0WE5DVW5DNVltclEi LCJzdWIiOiJDb3huWlBkSzN5QWVqaHRCTjAyQ3Y4ZU1ZaGhsRz AyU3MxZjE4TG9sMWxrdHciLCJhdWQiOiJ2IiwiZXhwIjoxNzY0 NTkwMjc5fQ: Downloading m3u8 information
[generic] CoxnZPdK3yAejhtBN02Cv8eMYhhlG02Ss1f18Lol1lktw.m3u8 ?token=eyJhbGciOiJSUzI1NiJ9.eyJraWQiOiJ5YmtSOWxJen lua2xEbnhHY3hyaWwwMEt5YTAxT1J2THM0WE5DVW5DNVltclEi LCJzdWIiOiJDb3huWlBkSzN5QWVqaHRCTjAyQ3Y4ZU1ZaGhsRz AyU3MxZjE4TG9sMWxrdHciLCJhdWQiOiJ2IiwiZXhwIjoxNzY0 NTkwMjc5fQ: Checking m3u8 live status
[info] CoxnZPdK3yAejhtBN02Cv8eMYhhlG02Ss1f18Lol1lktw.m3u8 ?token=eyJhbGciOiJSUzI1NiJ9.eyJraWQiOiJ5YmtSOWxJen lua2xEbnhHY3hyaWwwMEt5YTAxT1J2THM0WE5DVW5DNVltclEi LCJzdWIiOiJDb3huWlBkSzN5QWVqaHRCTjAyQ3Y4ZU1ZaGhsRz AyU3MxZjE4TG9sMWxrdHciLCJhdWQiOiJ2IiwiZXhwIjoxNzY0 NTkwMjc5fQ: Downloading 1 format(s): 3456
[hlsnative] Downloading m3u8 manifest
[hlsnative] Total fragments: 163
[download] Destination: Snooker.ts
[download] 41.6% of ~ 278.96MiB at 5.08MiB/s ETA 00:33 (frag 68/163)
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[AmethystZhou]

yt-dlp
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I realize what's going on now, I have a config file setup for downloading YouTube playlists, and that is causing yt-dlp to fail with WST Play. Thank you for the help!