How to downlod live streaming video from youtube?

[aaajan]

Hello,

Who can recommend me the best way to download live streaming video from youtube in highest quality?


Thank you for the help

[aaajan]

but I want it in one file not in seperated files or .ts files...etc

[JFK]

I would say its youtube-dl just run a simple command

youtube-dl youtube.com/watch?v=xxx

with no other options then it will downloading the highest quality possible

but what I dont know is how to download the live stream from the beginning, maybe someone below me knows

[aaajan]

Thank you for your answer! the software asked me to add ffmpeg to download the video because it doesn't detected it. how to do that?

[JFK]

Thank you for your answer! the software asked me to add ffmpeg to download the video because it doesn't detected it. how to do that?

just follow this instructions from youtube-dl faq and read carefully

https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/#on-windows-how-should-i-set-up-ffmpeg-and-yout...-the-exe-files

[aaajan]

Thank you again for your answer!

It will be great If it is possible to download from the biginning

[jagabo]

I recommend you use streamlink:

streamlink "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdjyvRfJeJM" best -o output.ts

That will download to output.ts -- which you can even play while it's downloading. Press Ctrl+C to terminate the download.

[aaajan]

I recommend you use streamlink:

streamlink "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdjyvRfJeJM" best -o output.ts

That will download to output.ts -- which you can even play while it's downloading. Press Ctrl+C to terminate the download.

I will try this software. Thank you for your answer.

[aaajan]

Thank you for your answer! the software asked me to add ffmpeg to download the video because it doesn't detected it. how to do that?

just follow this instructions from youtube-dl faq and read carefully

https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/#on-windows-how-should-i-set-up-ffmpeg-and-yout...-the-exe-files

I have other question, is there a way to stop the live streaming download properly on youtube-dl?

[jagabo]

Press Ctrl+C to stop downloading. But with youtube-dl that sometimes leaves a file that doesn't play. That's why i recommended Streamlink instead. It creates a transport stream file that will always play (unless it's very short, like 1 or 2 seconds). You can always remux to mp4 or mkv later.

[aaajan]

Press Ctrl+C to stop downloading. But with youtube-dl that sometimes leaves a file that doesn't play. That's why i recommended Streamlink instead. It creates a transport stream file that will always play (unless it's very short, like 1 or 2 seconds). You can always remux to mp4 or mkv later.

Thank you for your advice and that is true with youtube-dl the downloaded video leaves some parts not playing. But the question how to download youtube with streamlink? I didn't find the command for it.

[jagabo]

I gave you a sample streamlink command line in post #7.

[lingyi]

@jagabo

Thank you for recommending streamlink! Kistmet! I needed to record a Youtube stream earlier this morning and it worked great!

[lingyi]

FYI, streamlink will automatically stop once the stream ends.

[jagabo]

Live streams don't end.

[lingyi]

When I use streamlink for YouTube (recording right now), it automatically stops at the end of the stream, at least on the channel I'm using it on.

I learned a couple of things while setting it up.

You can create a batch file and add the Timeout command (timeout <time to wait) for unattended recording. You have to add the both the streamlink and timeout commands multiple times so it repeats until the stream is live. Be careful not to set the timeout too short as you may be called out for hammering the site. Also note that it takes a few seconds for the streamlink command to execute and test if the URL is active.

Example: test.bat

@echo off
streamlink "<url>" best -o "h:/video.ts"
timeout 30

streamlink "<url>" best -o "h:/video.ts"
timeout 30

streamlink "<url>" best -o "h:/video.ts"
timeout 30

streamlink "<url>" best -o "h:/video.ts"
timeout 30


Be sure to repeat the lines enough times to ensure you catch the start of the stream.

I've also figured out how to use Windows Task Scheduler to execute the batch automatically. Beware that the different versions of Windows may have different setup requirements especially if you're the Admin or only User. After lots of trial and error, I found that the simplest method works for me on Win 10 X64. I have it set as One Time Only because the URL changes every day.


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[lingyi]

Ohhh...I tried it a live Facebook stream yesterday and it didn't work. Wasn't sure if the stream would be retained after the stream, so used OBS to record it live.

[jagabo]

When I use streamlink for YouTube (recording right now), it automatically stops at the end of the stream, at least on the channel I'm using it on.

I was thinking of the live streams like the one I linked to, the Mr. Bean channel, which is a continuous broadcast, like a TV channel. "Event" type streams, do end, of course.

[lw230678]

Tried some converters not so long ago and found convenient youtube converter. May be it will be helpful for you.

[codehound]

I recommend you use streamlink:

streamlink "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdjyvRfJeJM" best -o output.ts

That will download to output.ts -- which you can even play while it's downloading. Press Ctrl+C to terminate the download.

Best option, agree.

If you miss the start of a 'Live' stream you can make it jump back to the start - or as far as possible. I have had Y/T sports streams jump back 2 hrs+ but similarly, others only 10mins or so:

streamlink --hls-live-restart "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdjyvRfJeJM" best -o output.ts

Press Ctrl+C to stop downloading. But with youtube-dl that sometimes leaves a file that doesn't play. That's why i recommended Streamlink instead. It creates a transport stream file that will always play (unless it's very short, like 1 or 2 seconds). You can always remux to mp4 or mkv later.

Solution in most (not all) cases to the Mp4 that won't play after halting with Ctrl+C via youtube-dl:

youtube-dl --no-part "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdjyvRfJeJM"

Also with youtube-dl you can 'force' a TS download:

youtube-dl --hls-use-mpegts "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdjyvRfJeJM" -o output.ts

[jagabo]

with youtube-dl you can 'force' a TS download:

youtube-dl --hls-use-mpegts "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdjyvRfJeJM" -o output.ts

I didn't know that. Thanks.

Also, if you use both --hls-use-mpegts and --no-part the video won't have a .part extension and you can play the .ts file while it is still being downloaded.

[aaajan]

Thank you for all your answers!

[ostern]

Try ee.ylss utility
You can find it on https://github.com
I haven't tested much, but at the moment it can download needed time interval of any Youtube livestream


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[ostern]

Other version ready, with command line support and with choice of resolution - page on GitHub
It also can download the specified past portion of YouTube livestream, even if it was streamed many hours ago

[Alwyn]

Doing a test run on a current streaming video on YT with this command line:

streamlink "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MiVG0cdqg78" best -o output.ts

and Streamlink returned this:

C:\Users\bb19>streamlink "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MiVG0cdqg78" best -o output.ts
[cli][info] Found matching plugin youtube for URL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MiVG0cdqg78
error: Unable to open URL: https://youtube.com/get_video_info (HTTPSConnectionPool(host='youtube.com', port=443): Max retries exceeded with url: /get_video_info?video_id=MiVG0cdqg78&el=detailpage (Caused by ProxyError('Cannot connect to proxy.', ConnectionResetError(10054, 'An existing connection was forcibly closed by the remote host', None, 10054, None))))

Any thoughts?

[jagabo]

It works for me:

C:\>"g:\program files\streamlink\streamlink" "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MiVG0cdqg78" best -o output.ts
[Streamlink for Windows v1.4.1 - Git W/5f8f0]
[cli][info] Found matching plugin youtube for URL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MiVG0cdqg78
[cli][info] Available streams: 144p (worst), 240p, 360p, 480p, 720p, 1080p (best)
[cli][info] Opening stream: 1080p (hls)
[download][output.ts] Written 47.2 MB (1m52s @ 576.6 KB/s)

The error you got seems to indicate you are using a system wide proxy, but the proxy isn't working. I tried the command again using a VPN in Australia -- no problems.

[codehound]

Doing a test run on a current streaming video on YT with this command line:

streamlink "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MiVG0cdqg78" best -o output.ts

and Streamlink returned this:

Caused by ProxyError('Cannot connect to proxy.'

Any thoughts?

Not many

[Alwyn]

Goooogle's my friend. I disabled the Windows 10 Proxy thingee and I got it working. Thanks to all!