Adding a free channel on OTT nav

[Stoc]

Hello I'm trying a way to add this free italian channel on my ott nav playlist.

https://www.discoveryplus.com/it/channel/nove?pc=311

the issue I'm facing (sorry if I'm a noob I'm seriously willing to learn) is that the url expires each 24h I believe so I have to manually retrieve it each time and add it again into the playlist. Is there a way to make OTT nav automatically retrieve the url without having to add it every 24h?

Thanks in advance for your help and sorry again if th question is too NOOBish.

[jckzz]

Find mpd link
this is the key

76933515b27b4ae285f1d976d1e19e75:ab21b257363af1b93d50f653b4a8e1df

OTT SCRIPT
save with .m3u extension

#EXTM3U
#EXTINF:-1 ,CHANNEL NAME
#KODIPROP:inputstream.adaptive.license_type=clearkey
#KODIPROP:inputstream.adaptive.license_key=76933515b27b4ae285f1d976d1e19e75:ab21b257363af1b93d50f653b4a8e1df
mpd_link

[shellcmd]

i think he dont need the key, he just want a script/method to auto generate mpd or mpd token from its api.

[jckzz]

i think he dont need the key, he just want a script/method to auto generate mpd or mpd token from its api.

ohh i see
i think build own php script in replit could help

[Stoc]

i think he dont need the key, he just want a script/method to auto generate mpd or mpd token from its api.

ohh i see
i think build own php script in replit could help

may someone point me in a thread or website which I can learn how to do it? Or someone can guide me? I can pay for that.

[Stoc]

Find mpd link
this is the key

76933515b27b4ae285f1d976d1e19e75:ab21b257363af1b93d50f653b4a8e1df

OTT SCRIPT
save with .m3u extension

#EXTM3U
#EXTINF:-1 ,CHANNEL NAME
#KODIPROP:inputstream.adaptive.license_type=clearkey
#KODIPROP:inputstream.adaptive.license_key=76933515b27b4ae285f1d976d1e19e75:ab21b257363af1b93d50f653b4a8e1df
mpd_link

Thanks for the answer sir. I already had all this and I could successfully retrieve the key. I'm struggling now in creating the script with replit or chatgpt since I'm sure I have some parts missing and I'm still not getting how this all works to retrieve a mpd url thorugh a script and then make it work automatically with ott navigator.

[2nHxWW6GkN1l916N3ayz8HQoi]

import json
from urllib.parse import urlparse, parse_qs

import requests

GLOBAL_API = 'https://global-prod.disco-api.com/bootstrapInfo'
ST_COOKIE = "<ST_COOKIE>"


def get_base_api_url():
    return json.loads(
        requests.get(GLOBAL_API, headers={
            'x-disco-client': '0:0:0:0',
            'x-disco-params': 'bid=dplus',
        }).content.decode()
    )["data"]["attributes"]["baseApiUrl"]


BASE_API_URL = get_base_api_url()


def get_mpd(input_url):
    response_json = json.loads(requests.post(
        BASE_API_URL + '/playback/v3/channelPlaybackInfo',
        cookies={'st': ST_COOKIE},
        json={
            'channelId': parse_qs(urlparse(input_url).query).get("pc")[0],
            'wisteriaProperties': {'device': {'browser': {'name': 'chrome'}}},
            'deviceInfo': {'adBlocker': False}
        }
    ).content.decode())

    mpd_urls = []
    for u in response_json["data"]["attributes"]["streaming"]:
        mpd_urls += [u["url"]]
    return mpd_urls


print(get_mpd("https://www.discoveryplus.com/it/channel/nove?pc=311"))

Grab the st value from the cookies. Only the st one, the rest of the cookies are irrelevant. I don't know if the lifetime of a cookie is better than that of the mpd URL. So if it's not good, you need to find a way to grab those cookies programmatically. Don't ask me how. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[2nHxWW6GkN1l916N3ayz8HQoi]

Alright. Turns out it was relatively easy due to their neat API. You can actually get the token yourself which is nice. This is the final script. Was fun to figure it out.

import json
from urllib.parse import urlparse, parse_qs

import requests

GLOBAL_API = 'https://global-prod.disco-api.com/bootstrapInfo'


def get_base_api_url():
    return json.loads(requests.get(GLOBAL_API, headers={
        'x-disco-client': '0:0:0:0',
        'x-disco-params': 'bid=dplus'
    }).content.decode())["data"]["attributes"]["baseApiUrl"]


def get_st():
    return json.loads(requests.get(BASE_API_URL + '/token', params={
        'realm': 'dplay',
        'shortlived': 'false',
        'deviceId': 'deviceId'
    }).content.decode())["data"]["attributes"]["token"]


BASE_API_URL = get_base_api_url()
ST_COOKIE = get_st()


def get_mpd(input_url):
    response_json = json.loads(requests.post(
        BASE_API_URL + '/playback/v3/channelPlaybackInfo',
        cookies={'st': ST_COOKIE},
        json={
            'channelId': parse_qs(urlparse(input_url).query).get("pc")[0],
            'wisteriaProperties': {'device': {'browser': {'name': 'chrome'}}},
            'deviceInfo': {'adBlocker': False}
        }
    ).content.decode())

    mpd_urls = []
    for u in response_json["data"]["attributes"]["streaming"]:
        mpd_urls += [u["url"]]
    return mpd_urls


print(get_mpd("https://www.discoveryplus.com/it/channel/nove?pc=311"))
print(get_mpd("https://www.discoveryplus.com/it/channel/nove?pc=312"))

Whatever way you incorporate this into your stuff, is entirely up to you and you're on your own.

[Stoc]

Alright. Turns out it was relatively easy due to their neat API. You can actually get the token yourself which is nice. This is the final script. Was fun to figure it out.

Whatever way you incorporate this into your stuff, is entirely up to you and you're on your own.

Mate, thanks a ot for your kind answer. As always you are really helpful and exhaustive in your answers. I will study the code and try to understand where I was lacking info. You helped me so much, a true gentleman.
i will find a way to incorporate it in ott nav and try to apply this to other channels and in the future my goal is to create my own personal script

[Stoc]

To make it work for me I had to replace with this part

def get_base_api_url():
    return json.loads(requests.get(GLOBAL_API, headers={
      'x-disco-client': 'WEB:UNKNOWN:dplus_us:2.39.1',
      'x-disco-params': 'bid=dplus,hn=www.discoveryplus.com,hth=it',
    }).content.decode())["data"]["attributes"]["baseApiUrl"]

[Stoc]

Ok I've successfully converted the script to PHP and it works properly.

Now I'm trying to add it to OTT Navigator to make it retrieve the URL automatically.

I'm trying this method but it doesn't seem to work. Is there something wrong? The player (which is based on exoplayer I think) it doesn't seem to retrieve the url from the script. I already made sure that the script returns a proper working link with no brackets or commas. Any ideas?

#EXTINF:-1 group-title="*" tvg-logo="*" tvg-id="*",Channel Name
#KODIPROP:inputstream.adaptive.license_type=org.w3.clearkey
#KODIPROP:inputstream.adaptive.license_key=kid_key
https://0.0.0.0/myscript.php

[Stoc]

Alright. Turns out it was relatively easy due to their neat API. You can actually get the token yourself which is nice. This is the final script. Was fun to figure it out.

Hi mate sorry for bothering you again,
May you please explain how did you figure that out?

I'm missing this part

 def get_st():
    return json.loads(requests.get(BASE_API_URL + '/token', params={
        'realm': 'dplay',
        'shortlived': 'false',
        'deviceId': 'deviceId'
    }).content.decode())["data"]["attributes"]["token"]

How did you see the endpoint BASE_API_URL + '/token'?

I'm trying to study their API but i don't see any token attribute?

[2nHxWW6GkN1l916N3ayz8HQoi]

I'm trying to study their API but i don't see any token attribute?

That token value is kept as a cookie. Naturally, because you can access that video without an account, it means that the endpoint token must be called at most once. Keyword, at most once, because it is kept as a cookie so that the next time you access that page, the endpoint isn't called anymore. So open incognito on an empty tab, open inspect network requests, and access that page. You will see the token endpoint called only once. The next time you refresh the page, it's gone.

[nabla]

Does anyone know how to modify the script for links like:

https://www.discoveryplus.com/it/video/chissa-chi-e/stagione-1-episodio-1

From Firefox's Web Developer Tools (F12) it follow that

channelId = 311
videoId = 7523412

and a mpd url like to this

https://dplus-it-cloudfront.prod-vod.h264.io/s/eu-west-1/v1/playlist/dash/5d132ad5-142...pm5LIyUDKWkgI=

but I couldn't find how to change the requests.post() to get it.

[2nHxWW6GkN1l916N3ayz8HQoi]

That script is old and meant for /channel links. For a good discoveryplus script, use devine. I don't have access to discovery and can't edit the script anyway

[ddll]

It's simple

04.10.2024
9:20:44,66
yt-dlp_x86 -F https://www.discoveryplus.com/it/video/chissa-chi-e/stagione-1-episodio-1
[DiscoveryPlusItaly] Extracting URL: https://www.discoveryplus.com/it/video/chissa-chi-e/stagione-1-episodio-1
[DiscoveryPlusItaly] chissa-chi-e/stagione-1-episodio-1: Downloading token
[DiscoveryPlusItaly] chissa-chi-e/stagione-1-episodio-1: Downloading JSON metadata
[DiscoveryPlusItaly] 7513098: Downloading JSON metadata
[DiscoveryPlusItaly] chissa-chi-e/stagione-1-episodio-1: Downloading m3u8 information
[info] Available formats for 7513098:
ID                         EXT RESOLUTION FPS │   FILESIZE    TBR PROTO │ VCODEC         VBR ACODEC     MORE INFO
────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
hls-audio-aacl-125-Italian mp4 audio only     │                   m3u8  │ audio only         unknown    [it] Italian
hls-300                    mp4 416x234     25 │ ~137.37MiB   300k m3u8  │ avc1.4D400D   300k video only
hls-434                    mp4 640x360     25 │ ~198.73MiB   434k m3u8  │ avc1.4D401E   434k video only
hls-599                    mp4 768x432     25 │ ~274.28MiB   599k m3u8  │ avc1.4D401E   599k video only
hls-1015                   mp4 1280x720    25 │ ~464.77MiB  1015k m3u8  │ avc1.4D401F  1015k video only
hls-1737                   mp4 1280x720    25 │ ~795.38MiB  1737k m3u8  │ avc1.4D401F  1737k video only
hls-2919                   mp4 1280x720    25 │ ~  1.31GiB  2919k m3u8  │ avc1.4D401F  2919k video only
hls-5583                   mp4 1920x1080   25 │ ~  2.50GiB  5583k m3u8  │ avc1.4D4028  5583k video only
hls-10099                  mp4 1920x1080   25 │ ~  4.52GiB 10099k m3u8  │ avc1.4D4028 10099k video only

[nabla]

Thanks for the advice. My intention was to make a simple standalone script.
Taking inspiration from the script of 2nHxWW6GkN1l916N3ayz8HQoi and from yt-dlp source I put together these few lines of code (in case they can be useful to someone).

import requests
import json


videoId = '7523412'
ST_COOKIE = requests.get('https://eu1-prod.disco-api.com/token', params={'realm': 'dplay','shortlived': False,'deviceId': 'deviceId'}).json()["data"]["attributes"]["token"]


data = {'deviceInfo': {'adBlocker': False,'drmSupported': True}, 'wisteriaProperties': {}, 'videoId': videoId}

response = requests.post('https://eu1-prod.disco-api.com/playback/v3/videoPlaybackInfo', json=data, cookies={'st': ST_COOKIE}).json()

dashUrl = response['data']['attributes']['streaming'][0]['url']

print(f'\nDASHURL:\n{dashUrl}\n')

Starting from videoId it provides the manifest url m3u8.

Looking with Firefox Web Developer Tools (F12) somewhere there is also the manifest mpd, but I don't know how to get it.

[2nHxWW6GkN1l916N3ayz8HQoi]

somewhere there is also the manifest mpd, but I don't know how to get it.

Does it matter if you get the mpd or the m3u8? Isn't it the same content but only served differently?

[nabla]

You are right. However your script seems better to me.

Modifying it this way gives m3u8 url

        BASE_API_URL + '/playback/v3/videoPlaybackInfo',
        cookies={'st': ST_COOKIE},
        json={
            'videoId': videoId,
            'wisteriaProperties': {},
            'deviceInfo': {'adBlocker': False}
        }

Instead this way you get mpd Url

        BASE_API_URL + '/playback/v3/videoPlaybackInfo',
        cookies={'st': ST_COOKIE},
        json={
            'videoId': videoId,
            'wisteriaProperties': {'device': {'browser': {'name': 'chrome'}}},
            'deviceInfo': {'adBlocker': False}
        }

I don't understand so much about this things, I just did some random testing.

[ldstech]

I used a combination of the scripts above. Does anyone know how to only recieve mpd links from akamai using https://prod-gb-live.akamai.prod-live.h264.io i get a mixture of them and https://gb-sports-cloudfront.prod-live.h264.io.

The akamai seem more stable for me.

Thanks