Revision history for StreamFinder
1.00 Date/time
First version, released on an unsuspecting world.
1.01 2018/08/10
- Fixed issue with some Facebook videos on Youtube.
- Removed Tunein as a valid site (can no longer extract streams).
1.02 2019/01/31
- Make StreamFinder::Youtube the default and handle pretty much
anything youtube-dl handles, ie. brighteon, vimeo, etc.
1.03 2019/08/15
- Fix StreamFinder::Reciva now failing to connect to server
(added wget as fallthrough as LWP::UserAgent and curl fail with
unsupported SSL protocol errors).
- Fix StreamFinder.IHeartRadio now failing to grab images / icons.
- Strip off "?autoplay=true" from StreamFinder::Youtube urls.
- Minor doc fixes.
1.04 NOT RELEASED
- Make debug option work for all stream types, and allow specifying
as either "debug", "-debug", "debug => 1", or "-debug => 1" in
parameter list for new()
(ie. my $station = new StreamFinder($url, -debug => 1);
- Better handle ".m3u8" streams returned by brighteon.com (Youtube).
1.05 2019/09/03
- Add StreamFinder::BannedVideo (https://banned.video/) to handle
their video streams (which youtube-dl doesn't currently handle).
1.10 2019/09/07
- Add user-configuration files (~/.config/StreamFinder/config,
~/.config/StreamFinder/<submodule>/config (see docs).
User can now specify / override most LWP::UserAgent options, ie.
"agent", "timeout", etc. in the new configuration files.
User must create these files, if needed with a text editor.
- Greatly reduce falling back to wget by adding default user-agent
and checking for wget availability. Specify an "agent" => "your agent"
line in the user-configuration file to change.
- Add "-random" and "-noplaylists" options to $station->getURL()
(see docs)
- StreamFinder::BannedVideo: Add "-keep" option to better control
type and order of streams returned (see docs).
- StreamFinder::Facebook: Depreciated ~/.config/.fbdata for new
user-configuration files.
- StreamFinder::IHeartRadio: Add podcast-playing capability.
- StreamFinder::IHeartRadio: Depreciated old stream order options,
replacing them with new -keep and -skip arguments and configuration
file entries.
- StreamFinder::RadioNet: (https://www.radion.net/) ADDED
- StreamFinder::Tunein: RESTORED (now uses StreamFinder::Youtube for
stream fetching), but adds metadata loading (which youtube-dl does
not currently fetch for these streams.
- StreamFinder::Youtube: Better handle "chunky" brighteon.com
.m3u8 video streams. Also add "-notitle" option, streamlining
use by StreamFinder::Tunein (see docs).
1.11 2019/09/07
- StreamFinder::Youtube: bugfix for brighteon.com m3u8 video URLs.
- Docs: fix a cpl. typos, actually include the updated README file.
1.12 2019/09/10
- StreamFinder::Tunein: Add podcast-playing capability.
(Will look for "playUrl" before falling back to youtube-dl for stream).
- StreamFinder::Reciva: Fix to make LWP::Useragent fetch reciva URLs
using the ANCIENT TLSv1 to allow to work without falling back to wget.
See the StreamFinder::Reciva docs for creating a one-line custom
config file to do this - I didn't make it the default since they could
FIX this at ANY time, which would break things!
- Add URI::Escape and HTML::Entities as DEPENDENCIES - in order to
ensure that the returned stream titles are un-escaped.
- Fix $station->getID('fcc') to work properly (return the station's
FCC call-letters for sights and stations that support it.
- Set $station->{artist} and $station->{year} where applicable.
- Minor doc updates.
- Fix some sight-specific submodules to properly accept just a station
/ video ID rather than a full URL (see docs).
- Add "desc" option go getTitle() to fetch station's (long) description
(for sites that provide that field), otherwise, the title is returned.
1.13 2019/09/11
- Fix missing (recently-added) file (RadioNet.pm) in MANIFEST file.
- More doc. fixes, mostly to the individual submodules.
1.20 2019/09/16
- Removed usage and all references to WWW::Youtube::Download -
This module no longer fetches the "author" (Youtube user) nor does
anything else we can't more easily do manually.
- StreamFinder::Apple: (podcasts.apple.com) ADDED!
- StreamFinder::Brighteon: (brighteon.com) ADDED (split off from
StreamFinder::Youtube).
- StreamFinder::Vimeo: (vimeo.com) ADDED (split off from
StreamFinder::Youtube.
We separated these for better support - ie. ability to get the "author"
fields and access some additional streams. We also can often avoid
having to call youtube-dl.
- StreamFinder::Youtube: Removed "notitle" option, added "fast" option,
and add "description" field fetch to youtube-dl. Fixed url-fetching
order to call youtube-dl FIRST to prevent infinite stall if called
with an already-valid stream-url (Fauxdacious mediaplayer).
StreamFinder::IHeartRadio - Fix sometimes-corrupted ID field.
StreamFinder::Reciva - Fix failure to always capture ID field if
given wrongly-formatted full url.
- Add $station->{'genre'} field to IHeartRadio, RadioNet, Reciva, and
Tunein (the sites that support it).
- Various small code and doc. tweaks / cleanups.
- DEBUG was accidently left set to ON, now turned OFF by default!
1.21 2019/09/18
- Significant documentation improvements & polishing.
- StreamFinder::BannedVideo: Fix incorrect IDs returned.
- StreamFinder::Tunein: (new()) - Fix mishandled URL if only
station-ID specified (non-full URL).
- StreamFinder::Apple: (new()) - Handle if only podcast-ID specified.