micahg/m3uchop

Command line utility to download (or read), filter, and output an m3u file

M3U Chop

Pre-process a playlist

Setup

Ensure you have the requests python module installed.

Set your M3U_URL to either a remote source or local file.

Set your config.json to contain the following:

{
    "groups": [
        "group_one"
    ],
    ids: [
        "tvg_id_one"
    ],
    "channels": [
        "channel_one"
    ]
}

There you can specify where to write the filtered output, and add some groups or specific names that you care about.

Note that groups must match exactly (case insensitive), while channels are a substring. So the example above would match a channel named channel_one_hundred.

If you want this to run periodically on cron, hourly for example, you can run:

M3U_URL="https://example.com/playlist.m3u"
0 * * * * cd /home/user/m3uchop && python3 m3uchop.py -l /var/log/m3uchop.log -o /tmp/filtered.m3u

Development

Just notes here...

Getting Categories

grep -Po 'group-title="\K[^"]*' playlist.m3u  | sort | uniq