Confirmed live on the same 141.94.193.53 mirror used for M1/M2/M5/Duna/
RTL/TV2/ATV/TV4/Cool/Film+: Spektrum, Spektrum Home, Galaxy4, Sport1,
Sport2, Izaura TV, Film4, Mozi+, AMC, TV Paprika. Fixed M4 Sport with
the same mirror (old connectmedia.hu URL was dead).
DTV is finally live again via cloudfront44.lexanetwork.com relay002
(closes the long-standing gap from #1223/#1228 - FEM3 and Viasat 6
still have no working source and remain in Invalid).
Spektrum Home and Izaura TV were actually fixed once already in a
follow-up commit on the #1244 branch, but that commit landed after
the PR had already been merged, so it never reached master - this
restores that work with fresh URLs.
Replaced the Euronews Hungarian YouTube embed with euronews's own
direct HLS feed (more stable, confirmed live).
Added a new Radio section with 11 Hungarian radio stations from
#1248 (Kossuth, Petőfi, Bartók, Dankó, Rádió1, Retró, Jazzy FM,
Youventus, Hír FM, Spirit FM, Sláger FM), replacing the old YouTube
Radio 1 entry in Music with the direct stream in the new section.
All 66 Hungary entries confirmed alive via check_channels.py.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <[email protected]>
Went through the open issue backlog and verified each claim against
the live streams with check_channels.py / curl before touching
anything, rather than acting on the reports alone.
Moved to Invalid (2 attempts, both `gone`, re-verified by hand):
- Greece: Start, Thraki Net TV
- Slovakia: Doma, Dajto, Krimi, Markíza TN Live, Jojko (joining the
JOJ-family channels already Invalid - same upstream host, same
missing-channel pattern)
- Bosnia and Herzegovina: Sevdah
- Spain: Nova, La 7 CYLTV, Canal TE24
- USA: NASA TV Public
- USA + zz_news_en: CNN / CNN International - both point at
turnerlive.warnermediacdn.com/.../cnn_slate/..., which returns a
permanently frozen manifest (#EXT-X-PUBLISHED-TIME and
MEDIA-SEQUENCE identical across two fetches 8s apart, dated several
months in the past) - a live-looking HTTP 200 that check_channels.py
currently has no way to catch, since it never compares a URL against
its own earlier response. Also moved the alternate CNN entry in
zz_news_en.md (a raw.githubusercontent.com link that 404s outright).
- Not moved: N1 Bosna i Hercegovina (`disputed` - ffprobe found a real
stream behind the dead-looking HTTP response, needs a human) and
everything reported merely `unreachable`/`blocked` across these
lists - neither is strong enough evidence on its own, see
check_channels.py's own docstring.
Japan: added the Ⓖ marker to the 6 terrestrial channels on mov3.co
(NHK総合, 日本テレビ, テレビ朝日, TBSテレビ, テレビ東京, フジテレビ) -
confirmed HTTP 403 from here on all six, consistent with the
geo-restriction every other Ⓖ-marked channel in this repo already
documents. They were working `[>]` entries with no Ⓖ, which reads as
"this should work from anywhere" when it does not.
Left alone after checking (false alarms / already resolved, not a
list-file problem):
- Croatia HRT 1-4: already Ⓖ-marked and alive.
- Mongolia TenGer TV/TV5/TV9: all 40 Mongolia channels alive.
- Japan Willfonk/naori-test links: already Invalid on master.
- Several `unreachable` entries (Greece ART TV/Epirus TV 1, Croatia's
RTL family, half of Spain, Bosnia's BHT/Glas Drine/etc.) -
`unreachable` means "every attempt timed out or failed to connect
from here", not "confirmed gone" - too weak to act on without a
second opinion, and these didn't get one in this pass.
ran: python3 make_playlist.py (clean regen) + check_channels.py on
every touched list afterward to confirm nothing newly broke and the
moved channels no longer show up as working.
Per #1226: once a channel is marked Invalid ([x]), nothing ever probes
it again, so a source that comes back online stays listed as dead
forever, and the scheduled fast/deep runs plus the PR check only ever
look at [>] rows.
- ROW now captures which marker (`>` or `x`) a row carries.
- --invalid probes only the Invalid-flagged rows; anything that now
answers alive/flaky is printed as "RECOVERED?" instead of being
judged dead/unreachable (the expected, uninteresting outcome for a
row that's supposed to be broken).
- --include-invalid runs both passes together in one worker pool.
- The exit code still only reflects dead [>] channels - a dead [x]
channel is the status quo, not a regression - so --invalid alone
always exits 0 and is safe to add to any workflow without risking a
spurious failure.
- --json records now carry the row's marker too.
Deliberately not wired into check_channels_deep.yml yet: the history
file and generate_dashboard.py's "most recent row per (list, channel)"
view assume every row is a working channel. Mixing in hundreds of
Invalid rows per run would bloat the dashboard's "not currently alive"
table with already-known-dead noise, and - worse - an Invalid channel
that comes back alive wouldn't show there either, since that table
only lists rows that are *not* alive. That's a second, separate change
to generate_dashboard.py; flagging it here rather than shipping it
half-done.
Tried --invalid on bulgaria/latvia (channels this account's own PR
moved to Invalid days ago, confirmed dead at the time) - correctly
reported dead/blocked, not recovered. Tried --include-invalid on
hungary and it immediately surfaced 4 real recovery candidates
(AlföldTV, Lóverseny közvetítés, Bajai TV, Tisza TV); re-checked those
4 by hand afterwards with a longer timeout and they went straight back
to unreachable, which is itself a useful data point - exactly the kind
of flaky intermittent case the tool is supposed to hand to a human
rather than silently act on, so none were restored. pylint: 10.00/10.
Same 141.94.193.53 host as the M1/M2/M5/Duna/RTL/TV2/ATV fixes in this
branch, per #1228. Re-tested all three live just now. TV4 is a genuine
free-to-air DVB-T2 channel; Cool and Film+ are RTL Group's
subscription-tier channels in official distribution, included here
since this mirror serves them without auth (same basis other
already-listed subscription channels in this repo are included on).
Re-tested every URL below just now (curl + real HLS manifest body check)
before restoring, per issue #1226's finding that some Invalid rows have
working streams again:
- Italy: K2, Frisbee, Canale 58 — live again (closes#1205)
- Lebanon: ALWifak News TV, Arabica TV — live again
- Hungary: Hír TV — old onlinestream.live link now serves a player error;
replaced with the working videa.hu relay
- Hungary: M1, M2/Petőfi TV, M5, Duna TV, RTL Klub, TV2, ATV — old
88.212.15.19 links are dead; replaced with the 141.94.193.53 mirror
URLs reported working in #1228 (verified live here too), moved back
out of Invalid
Regenerated playlist.m3u8 and the per-country playlists via
make_playlist.py.
ATV, Hír TV, and Izaura TV logos moved to Wikimedia Commons; Fix TV
(YouTube-only channel, no working website) uses its YouTube channel
avatar. M3's onlinestream.live logo left as-is — no Wikipedia page
exists for it and the channel itself is already marked dead.
Official atv.hu/streamservers.atv.hu endpoints are currently down;
the 88.212.15.19 mirror (already used for several other Hungarian
channels) serves a working direct stream instead of relying on
YouTube.
M1, M2, M5 and Duna TV had expired connectmedia.hu session tokens
(404) — replaced with the working 88.212.15.19 mirror already used
for other Hungarian channels. M4 Sport's connectmedia.hu link is
also dead but no working replacement was found (marked dead).
Hír TV's onlinestream.live link returned HTTP 200 but with an empty
stream URL in the manifest (functionally broken); no alternative
public stream was found, so marked dead rather than left silently
non-functional.
Also re-verified all regional stations: fixed Gyöngyös TV and
Kecskemét TV with working alternates, and marked AlföldTV, Kapos TV,
Lóverseny közvetítés, Zugló TV, Bajai TV and Tisza TV dead after
confirming their current links are unreachable with no replacement
found.
Stores the failed-channel snapshot as a workflow artifact (90-day
retention) and downloads the previous run's artifact for comparison,
instead of committing a state file back to the repo.
Weekly trend workflow: runs the full iptv-checker weekly, keeps a
snapshot of failed URLs in .github/checker-history/failed.txt, and
reports newly-broken vs newly-recovered channels since the last run
in the job summary.
PR check workflow: on any PR touching lists/*.md, extracts only the
added/changed stream links from the diff and checks just those (not
the whole 2000+ channel playlist), reporting online/failed results
directly in the PR's Checks summary.
Follow-up pass on remaining dead small local TV stations, using
alternate CDN paths, Wayback Machine clues, and Twitch/YouTube live
fallbacks where the repo's naming convention supports it. Verified
every replacement URL with curl before applying. Reverted one
agent-reported fix (Switzerland SRF Zwei) that no longer resolved
on independent re-check.
Italy: 9, Hungary: 2, Croatia: 1, North Macedonia: 1, Greece: 1
New country page sourced from a community-submitted playlist, with
every entry re-checked against its current live stream before
inclusion. 13 working channels (MTV Lebanon, Tele Liban, Al Manar,
Al Mayadeen, Voice of Lebanon, Noursat family, etc.), 9 more kept in
an Invalid section for channels that no longer resolve.
Sourced from the actively-maintained i.mjh.nz/.r/ resolver (Matt
Huisman's AU Freeview mirror project), which redirects to fresh,
tokenized CDN URLs on each request. Confirmed live for Seven, 7two,
7mate, 7flix, Nine, 10, 10 Peach, 10 Shake. SBS/NITV are no longer
carried by this mirror (still invalid).
Final round of the country-by-country pass against the CI
failed-channel report. Verified every replacement URL with curl
before applying. Spain VOD (all HQM Radio, provider backend down)
and USA VOD (all Bumblebee TV, CDN provider discontinued) had zero
fixable entries — confirmed the entire underlying providers are
gone, not just individual links.
Andorra, Dominican Republic, Estonia, Faroe Islands, Latvia,
Lithuania, Moldova, Netherlands, North Korea (KCTV), Peru,
San Marino: 1-2 each. VOD Italy: 10. News/Business/Weather: 4.
Continued the country-by-country pass against the CI failed-channel
report. Verified every replacement URL with curl before applying.
Denmark, Turkey, Trinidad, Norway, Macau, Bulgaria, Switzerland,
Nigeria, Hong Kong, Romania, Montenegro yielded no confident fixes
this round (mostly geo-blocked broadcasters, confirmed-dead hosts
with no findable replacement, or false-positive checker failures)
and were left untouched.
Israel: 5, Egypt: 4, Venezuela: 4, Georgia: 2, Belgium: 1 (+1 dup
removed in azerbaijan.md), Somalia: 4, Ireland: 4, Austria: 2,
Serbia: 1, Saudi Arabia: 1, Ukraine: 2, Slovenia: 1, Mexico: 3,
Kenya: 1, Costa Rica: 1, Brazil: 2, Iran: 1
Both domains are now fully unreachable (DNS failure / connection
refused), confirmed on repeated checks. 27 USA VOD and 18 Spain VOD
entries were still marked valid despite the backing CDN being gone.
Continued the country-by-country pass against the CI failed-channel
report. Verified every replacement URL with curl before applying.
Also fixed a malformed nested-bracket markdown link in belarus.md.
China: 10, Portugal: 5 (+2 duplicates removed), Poland: 6,
Korea: 2, Albania: 3, Australia: 4, Belarus: 3,
Bosnia and Herzegovina: 1, Iraq: 3, North Macedonia: 2,
Canada: 3, India: 1, Taiwan: 3, Chile: 1, Sweden: 1
The whole www.tvkaista.net/stream-forwarder/get.php proxy is now
returning 502 Bad Gateway, so several Poland/Slovenia rows that were
still marked valid were actually broken. Replaced TVP1, TVP Polonia,
TVP Info, TVP World with working alternatives; the rest are marked
invalid pending a working replacement (TV SLO 1/2/3 candidates found
but not yet verified due to a fetch rate limit).
Continued the country-by-country pass against the CI failed-channel
report. Verified every replacement URL with curl (including retrying
with player-style user agents where a host blocked generic UAs)
before applying. Japan, UK, and Croatia batches from this round
yielded no confident fixes (mostly geo-blocked national broadcasters
or no findable replacement) and were left untouched.
Argentina: 6 fixed
Czech Republic: 13 fixed
Germany: 1 fixed
Greece: 6 fixed
News: 14 fixed
Cross-referenced the CI iptv-checker's failed-channel report against
each country list, verified every replacement URL with curl before
applying, and removed one genuine duplicate (Telecolor International).
Real geo-blocked national-broadcaster 403s and CI-runner false
positives (esp. HTTP 408 timeouts, which turned out unreliable) were
left untouched rather than guessed at.
Italy: 6 fixed, 1 duplicate removed
Spain: 16 fixed
Russia: 3 fixed
UAE: 13 fixed
USA: 10 fixed
The config's files list still referenced the README's placeholder
filenames (playlist1.m3u, playlist2.m3u), which don't exist in this
repo, so the linter was silently checking nothing. Point it at the
real playlist.m3u8, drop the noisy full-file cat dump, and surface
its output in the job summary like the iptv-checker step.
Add a job summary listing the failed channels and upload the full
online.m3u/failed.m3u results as a build artifact, instead of running
the checker and discarding its output.
G1 TV and W9 now point to verified working streams. Removed dead
tntendirect.com/edge duplicate rows for TF1, France 5 and TFX where
a working stream for the same channel already existed elsewhere in
the file.
Cross-referenced TDTChannels' maintained playlist against dead/missing
entries: removed a duplicate dead TV3 row in spain.md (TV3Cat already
covers it), and added new working channels to mexico.md (7), peru.md (3),
and usa.md (7). All new stream URLs verified live.
ATV+ Noticias moved off its old CDN link; switched to the official
YouTube live channel. Karibeña TV's frequency now carries Exitosa's
programming, so the entry is repointed accordingly.
Kálmán „KAMI” SzalaiandClaude Sonnet 5