[RaiPlay Italy] 1080p Akamai Live Streams (M3U8) returning 403 Forbidden /

[pedrothelion]

Hi everyone,

Until yesterday, I was able to successfully extract and play the 1080p live streams for Italian national TV (RaiPlay). I was relying on their relinker API to grab the tokenized Akamai links, which typically look like this:

https://raiuno1-live.akamaized.net/hls/live/598308/raiuno1/raiuno1/playlist_ma_1800-5000.m3u8

Since this morning, this has completely stopped working on my end. Playing the bare link obviously results in a 403 Forbidden from Akamai.

When trying to get a fresh token via their API (https://mediapolis.rai.it/relinker/relinkerServlet.htm?cont=2606803), it seems they have drastically updated their WAF/Bot Manager:

If I use the standard web parameter (&output=45), I can successfully get a token, but the stream is now strictly capped at 720p (~2.7 Mbps max).

If I try to request the Smart TV or Apple HLS streams (&output=54 or &output=14) to get the native 1080p feed (~5 Mbps), the server instantly drops the connection or returns an error, even when spoofing Android TV/iPad headers and using TLS fingerprint impersonation.

Is anyone else experiencing this sudden block, or is it just something wrong on my end?
Did RaiPlay just lock the 1080p live streams behind an App-bound HMAC token, or has anyone already found a workaround/new API parameter to restore the 1080p streams in cleartext?

Thanks in advance for any insights!

[gwe202]

Well, for me works with Italian VPN this config, obviously maybe you need to extract .m3u8 by yourself, but i can watch in 1080p
https://mediapolis.rai.it/relinker/relinkerServlet.htm?cont=2606803&output=62&forceUse...raiplayappletv