StreamDL

Monitor and Download Streams from a Variety of Websites

Why This Exists

Because there are certain streaming websites that don't store historic VODs. This is sad. As a nerd, you probably have terabytes of storage somewhere, right? Why not get some use out of it? Archivists everywhere, rejoice!

Usage

  usage: Monitor and Download Streams from a Variety of Websites

  optional arguments:
  -h,               --help      show this help message and exit
  -l    LOGPATH,    --logpath   LOGPATH
                                Logfile to use (defaults to working dir)
  -ll   LOGLEVEL,   --loglevel  Log level to set (defaults to INFO)
  -o    OUTDIR,     --outdir    OUTDIR
                                Output file location without trailing slash
                                (defaults to working dir)
  -m    MOVEDIR,    --movedir   MOVEDIR
                                Directory to move files to after downloading
  -c    CONFIG,     --config    CONFIG
                                Config file to use
  -r    REPEAT,     --repeat    REPEAT
                                Time to repetitively check users, in minutes
  -q    QUALITY,    --quality   Quality of stream to download
                                (best, 1080p, >720p)

Install

Docker

• Built on Docker 19.03.4
• Built on Docker-Compose 1.24.1

If you'd like to tweak individual parameters, the Dockerfile provided can be used.

Edit the Environment variables in docker-compose.yml.example to modify script functionality.

Otherwise, just rename it to docker-compose.yml and run docker compose up -d.

Logs are piped to stdout by default so that docker compose logs works. If you know what you're doing, you can change this value in entrypoint.sh. Make sure to rebuild the container with docker compose build after editing this.

Bare Metal

• Python 3.10 or newer
• ffmpeg
• poetry (pip install poetry or pip3 install poetry depending on your system)

Example Run

• user@box$: git clone https://github.com/dangeroustech/streamdl && cd streamdl
• user@box$: poetry install
• user@box$: poetry run python streamdl.py -c ./cofnig/config.yml -r 5

Config File

Basic YAML format. See config/config.yaml.example for a couple of test sites.

- site: twitch.tv
  channels:
  - name: kaypealol
    quality: best
  - name: day9tv
    quality: worst
- site: mixer.com
  channels:
  - name: ninja
    quality: best

Env File

To use the .env file:

1. Locate the .env.example file.
2. Rename it to .env and confirm that the variables are to your liking. For instance, STREAMDL_GRPC_PORT=50051 sets the gRPC port for the StreamDL service.
3. To modify any variable, open the .env file, change the value, and save the file. For example, to change the gRPC port, you might modify the line to STREAMDL_GRPC_PORT=50052.