#!/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 disputed looked dead over HTTP, but ffprobe found a real audio/video stream behind it - needs a human, not a bot, to decide 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. Neither check is airtight on its own: a manifest that starts with `#EXTM3U`/`](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" DISPUTED = "disputed" 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) # ffprobe gets much longer than an HTTP probe: it has to open a connection, read # enough of the stream to find a decodable frame, and do that over whatever the # channel's own CDN feels like doing today, not just get a response header back FFPROBE_TIMEOUT = 25 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 as_records(list_name, results, checked_at, confirm_dead): """Turn one list's results into flat dicts, one per channel, for --json output. `confirm_dead` is recorded on every row so a later reader can tell a `dead` verdict that already survived an ffprobe second opinion from one that has not been asked yet - the two are not the same strength of evidence. """ return [ { "checked_at": checked_at, "list": list_name, "channel": channel, "url": url, "state": state, "outcomes": outcomes, "confirm_dead": confirm_dead, } for channel, url, state, outcomes in results ] def parse_args(): """Parse the command line into an `argparse.Namespace`.""" parser = argparse.ArgumentParser( description=__doc__, formatter_class=argparse.RawDescriptionHelpFormatter, ) 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") parser.add_argument( "--confirm-dead", action="store_true", help="give ffprobe a second opinion on channels that look dead (slower; needs ffmpeg)", ) parser.add_argument( "--json", metavar="PATH", help="also write every channel's result as one JSON record per line to PATH, for " "building a history across runs (state, outcomes, timestamp, list, channel, url)", ) return parser.parse_args() def write_json_records(handle, names, results_by_list, checked_at, confirm_dead): """Write every list's results to `handle` as one JSON record per channel per line.""" for name in names: for record in as_records(name, results_by_list[name], checked_at, confirm_dead): handle.write(json.dumps(record, ensure_ascii=False) + "\n") def main(): """Check the lists named on the command line, or every list.""" args = parse_args() if args.confirm_dead and shutil.which("ffprobe") is None: print( "--confirm-dead needs ffprobe (part of ffmpeg) on PATH; proceeding without it.", file=sys.stderr, ) args.confirm_dead = False all_lists = (f[:-3] for f in os.listdir(LISTS_DIR) if f.endswith(".md")) names = args.lists or sorted(all_lists) checked_at = datetime.now(timezone.utc).strftime("%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ") settings = ProbeSettings( args.attempts, args.timeout, args.pause, args.workers, args.confirm_dead, ) results_by_list = check_all(names, settings) dead_total = sum(report(name, results_by_list[name], args.attempts) for name in names) if args.json: with open(args.json, "w", encoding="utf-8") as handle: write_json_records(handle, names, results_by_list, checked_at, args.confirm_dead) return 1 if dead_total else 0 if __name__ == "__main__": sys.exit(main())