#!/usr/bin/python3 """Report which channels in `lists/` are no longer reachable. The playlist checker records the URLs it could not open, but a bare URL does not say which channel or which list it came from, and one failed attempt does not mean a channel is gone. Streams time out, rate limit, move between CDNs, and some are only served inside their own country. This script maps every URL back to its channel and list, probes each one several times, and separates the cases that look alike from the outside: dead every attempt said "not found", so the stream is really gone blocked the server answered but refused us, which is what a channel served only in its own country looks like from anywhere else unreachable every attempt timed out or failed to connect flaky answered at least once, so it is up but unreliable from here alive answered every time Only `dead` is safe to act on without a second opinion. `blocked` in particular must not be treated as a fault: the lists mark geo-blocked channels deliberately. Both playlist formats used by the lists are understood, HLS (.m3u8) and MPEG-DASH (.mpd), so a DASH stream is not mistaken for a broken one. Usage: ./check_channels.py # every list ./check_channels.py greece italy # only those lists ./check_channels.py --attempts 5 greece # more attempts per channel """ import argparse import os import re import ssl import sys import time import urllib.error import urllib.request from concurrent.futures import ThreadPoolExecutor LISTS_DIR = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__)), "lists") # `| 1 | Channel name | [>](url) | ...` is the row format used by every list ROW = re.compile(r"^\|[^|]*\|([^|]+)\|[^|]*\[>\]\((https?://[^)\s]+)\)") USER_AGENT = ( "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 " "(KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/131.0 Safari/537.36" ) OK = "ok" GONE = "gone" REFUSED = "refused" UNREACHABLE = "unreachable" ALIVE = "alive" DEAD = "dead" BLOCKED = "blocked" UNREACHED = "unreachable" FLAKY = "flaky" # a channel served only in its own country answers, then refuses us REFUSING_CODES = (401, 402, 403, 451) GONE_CODES = (404, 410) def read_channels(name): """Return the `(channel, url)` pairs of the list called `name`.""" path = os.path.join(LISTS_DIR, name + ".md") channels = [] with open(path, encoding="utf-8") as handle: for line in handle: match = ROW.match(line.strip()) if match: channels.append((match.group(1).strip(), match.group(2))) return channels def looks_like_a_playlist(head): """Return True if `head` is the start of an HLS or a DASH playlist.""" text = head.lstrip() if text.startswith("#EXTM3U"): return True # DASH manifests are XML, and may carry a declaration, a comment or neither return " {url}") return states.get(DEAD, 0) def main(): """Check the lists named on the command line, or every list.""" parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description=__doc__) parser.add_argument("lists", nargs="*", help="lists to check, without the .md suffix") parser.add_argument("--attempts", type=int, default=3, help="probes per channel") parser.add_argument("--timeout", type=int, default=12, help="seconds per probe") parser.add_argument("--pause", type=int, default=5, help="seconds between probes") parser.add_argument("--workers", type=int, default=8, help="channels probed at once") args = parser.parse_args() names = args.lists or sorted(f[:-3] for f in os.listdir(LISTS_DIR) if f.endswith(".md")) dead_total = 0 for name in names: results = check_list(name, args.attempts, args.timeout, args.pause, args.workers) dead_total += report(name, results, args.attempts) return 1 if dead_total else 0 if __name__ == "__main__": sys.exit(main())