StreamFinder - Fetch actual raw streamable URLs from various radio-station websites.
To install this module, run the following commands: perl Makefile.PL make make test make install
This module is Copyright (C) 2017-2019 by
Jim Turner, <turnerjw784 at yahoo.com>
<turnerjw784 at yahoo.com>
Email: turnerjw784@yahoo.com
All rights reserved.
You may distribute this module under the terms of either the GNU General Public License or the Artistic License, as specified in the Perl README file.
use strict; use StreamFinder; my $station = new StreamFinder(<url>); die "Invalid URL or no streams found!\n" unless ($station); my $firstStream = $station->get(); print "First Stream URL=$firstStream\n"; my $url = $station->getURL(); print "Stream URL=$url\n"; my $stationTitle = $station->getTitle(); print "Title=$stationTitle\n"; my $stationID = $station->getID(); print "Station ID=$stationID\n"; my $stationDescription = $station->getTitle('desc'); print "Description=$stationDescription\n" if (defined $stationDescription); my $icon_url = $station->getIconURL(); if ($icon_url) { #SAVE THE ICON TO A TEMP. FILE: my ($image_ext, $icon_image) = $station->getIconData(); if ($icon_image && open IMGOUT, ">/tmp/${stationID}.$image_ext") { binmode IMGOUT; print IMGOUT $icon_image; close IMGOUT; } } my $stream_count = $station->count(); print "--Stream count=$stream_count=\n"; my @streams = $station->get(); foreach my $s (@streams) { print "------ stream URL=$s=\n"; }
StreamFinder accepts a valid radio station URL on supported websites and returns the actual stream URL(s), title, and cover art icon for that station. The purpose is that one needs one of these URLs in order to have the option to stream the station/video in one's own choice of audio player software rather than using their web browser and accepting any / all flash, ads, javascript, cookies, trackers, web-bugs, and other crapware associated with that method of playing. The author uses his own custom all-purpose media player called "fauxdacious" (his custom hacked version of the open-source "audacious" audio player). "fauxdacious" incorporates this module to decode and play streams. The currently-supported websites are: radionomy.com, iheartradio.com, reciva.com, radio.net, facebook, banned.video, and youtube / vimeo / brighteon, et. al. We are again supporting tunein.com, but it may not work for all stations / podcasts!
NOTE: For some sites, ie. Youtube, Facebook, and BannedVideo, the "station" object actually refers to a specific video, but functions the same way!
Each site is supported by a separate subpackage (StreamFinder::Package), which is determined and selected based on the url when the StreamFinder object is created. The methods are overloaded by the selected subpackage's methods.
One or more playable streams can be returned for each station / video.
Accepts a URL and creates and returns a new station object, or undef if the URL is not a valid station or no streams are found.
NOTE: A full URL must be specified here, but if using any of the subpackage modules directly instead, then either a full URL OR just the station / video's site ID may be used! Reason being that this function parses the full URL to determine which subpackage (site) module to use.
options can vary depending on the type of stream (site) that is being queried. One option common to all sites is -debug, which turns on debugging output. A numeric option can follow specifying the level (0, 1, or 2). 0 is none, 1 is basic, 2 is detailed. Default: 1 (if -debug is specified).
Returns an array of strings representing all stream urls found.
Similar to get() except it only returns a single stream representing the first valid stream found.
Current options are: -random and -noplaylists. By default, the first ("best"?) stream is returned. If -random is specified, then a random one is selected from the list of streams found. If -noplaylists is specified, and the stream to be returned is a "playlist" (.pls extension), it is first fetched and the first entry in the playlist is returned. This is needed by Fauxdacious Mediaplayer.
Returns the number of streams found for the station.
Returns the station's site ID (default), or station's FCC call-letters ("fccid") for applicable sites and stations.
Returns the station's title, or (long description).
NOTE: Some sights do not support a separate long description field, so if none found, the standard title field will always be returned.
Returns the url for the station's "cover art" icon image, if any.
Returns a two-element array consisting of the extension (ie. "png", "gif", "jpeg", etc. and the actual icon image (binary data), if any.
Returns the url for the station's "cover art" banner image, if any.
NOTE: If no "banner image" (usually a larger image) is found, the "icon image" url will be returned.
Returns a two-element array consisting of the extension (ie. "png", "gif", "jpeg", etc. and the actual station's banner image (binary data).
NOTE: If no "banner image" (usually a larger image) is found, the "icon image" data will be returned.
Optional text file for specifying various configuration options. Each option is specified on a separate line in the format below:
'option' => 'value' [,]
and the options are loaded into a hash used by all sites (submodules) that support them. Valid options include -debug => [0|1|2], and most of the LWP::UserAgent options. Blank lines and lines starting with a "#" sign are ignored.
Optional text file for specifying various configuration options for a specific site (submodule). Each option is specified on a separate line in the format below:
and the options are loaded into a hash used only by the specific (submodule) specified. Valid options include -debug => [0|1|2], and most of the LWP::UserAgent options.
Options specified here override any specified in ~/.config/StreamFinder/config.
NOTE: Options specified in the options parameter list will override those corresponding options specified in these files.
URI::Escape, HTML::Entities, LWP::UserAgent
WWW::YouTube::Download (for Youtube)
youtube-dl (for Youtube, Facebook, Tunein)
wget
Please report any bugs or feature requests to bug-streamFinder at rt.cpan.org, or through the web interface at http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/ReportBug.html?Queue=StreamFinder. I will be notified, and then you'll automatically be notified of progress on your bug as I make changes.
bug-streamFinder at rt.cpan.org
You can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command.
perldoc StreamFinder
You can also look for information at:
Fauxdacious media player - (https://wildstar84.wordpress.com/fauxdacious)
RT: CPAN's request tracker (report bugs here)
http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bugs.html?Dist=StreamFinder
AnnoCPAN: Annotated CPAN documentation
http://annocpan.org/dist/StreamFinder
CPAN Ratings
http://cpanratings.perl.org/d/StreamFinder
Search CPAN
http://search.cpan.org/dist/StreamFinder/
Copyright 2017-2019 Jim Turner.
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To install StreamFinder, copy and paste the appropriate command in to your terminal.
cpanm
cpanm StreamFinder
CPAN shell
perl -MCPAN -e shell install StreamFinder
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