1.9 KiB
1.9 KiB
m3u8script
A script to facilitate downloading videos saved as .m3u8 in general.
Finding the .m3u8 file
Please extract the URL to your .m3u8 file first:
- Open the developer tools
- Go to the network tab and reload the page
- locate an entry containing an m3u8 link
- copy the link
In pictures:
(Pictures taken in Firefox)
(Pictures taken in Brave (Chromium Browser))
Using the tool
The tool does not need to be installed, only downloaded (m3u8script.java). All you might need to do is install the Java Development Kit, or JDK, and set the CLASSPATH variable.
You can then run it:
When encountering an error, you might also try
java -cp ./ m3u8script.java
Options
| option | explanation |
|---|---|
-single m3u8URL |
allows you to download and convert a single .m3u8 file. In this case, output must either end in a folder/ or file.m3u8 |
-multi textfile |
allows you to specify the path to a text file that contains links to .m3u8 files (one on each line), allowing hands-free batch processing. -output must specify a folder path |
-output fileorfolder |
specifies a local directory path. When using ’-multi’, it must contain only a folder name, since filenames will be applied automatically. When used with -single, it can contain a full filename with the extension .m3u8. If you want to use automatic naming, just specify a folder path |
-prefix prefixToUse |
You can use this command to specify the pattern this script should look for. Default should work in most cases. |
Example: java m3u8script.java -multi /home/guest/Downloads/list.txt -output /home/guest/Downloads/videos
Downloading
You can then use ffmpeg or VLC media player to download the videos:
