StreamFinder::IHeartRadio - Fetch actual raw streamable URLs from radio-station websites on IHeartRadio.com
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::IHeartRadio; my $station = new StreamFinder::IHeartRadio(<url>, -keep => {'secure_shoutcast', 'secure', 'any'}, -skip => 'rtmp'); die "Invalid URL or no streams found!\n" unless ($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 $stationDescription = $station->getTitle('desc'); print "Description=$stationDescription\n"; my $stationID = $station->getID(); print "Station ID=$stationID\n"; my $artist = $station->{'artist'}; print "Artist=$artist\n" if ($artist); print "Genre=$genre\n" if ($genre); my $icon_url = $station->getIconURL(); 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::IHeartRadio accepts a valid radio station or podcast ID or URL on IHeartRadio.com and returns the actual stream URL(s), title, and cover art icon. The purpose is that one needs one of these URLs in order to have the option to stream the station in one's own choice of media player software rather than using their web browser and accepting any / all flash, ads, javascript, cookies, trackers, web-bugs, and other crapware that can come 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" can incorporate this module to decode and play IHeartRadio.com streams.
One or more stream URLs can be returned for each station.
Accepts an iheartradio.com URL and creates and returns a new station object, or undef if the URL is not a valid iheartradio station or no streams are found.
-keep and -skip specify a list of one or more streamtypes to either include or skip respectively. The list for each can be either a comma-separated string or an array reference ([...]) of stream types, in the order they should be returned. Each stream type in the list can be one of: any, secure, secure_pls, pls, secure_hls, hls, secure_shortcast, shortcast, secure_rtmp, rtmp, (ext, ie. mp4) etc.
NOTE: This is now the preferred method over the DEPRECIATED one below. If using this method, do NOT include the inverter ("!") in front of the stream types, as this is not used - these should be put in the -skip list now. The method below will be REMOVED in a later version soon!
DEPRECIATED: use The optional streamtype can be one of: any, secure, secure_pls, pls, secure_hls, hls, secure_shortcast, shortcast, secure_rtmp, rtmp etc. More than one value can be specified to control order of search. A streamtype can be preceeded by an exclamantion point ("!") to reject that type of stream. If "any" appears in the list, it should be the last specifier without a "!" preceeding it, and itself should not be preceeded with a "!" (inverter)! For example, the list: 'secure_shoutcast', 'secure', 'any', '!rtmp' would try to find a "secure_shoutcast" (https) shortcast stream, if none found, would then look for any secure (https) stream, failing that, would look for any valid stream. All the while skipping any that are "rtmp" streams.
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 or .m3u? 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 IHeartRadio ID (default) or station's FCC call-letters ("fccid").
Returns the station's title, or (long description).
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.
Returns a two-element array consisting of the extension (ie. "png", "gif", "jpeg", etc. and the actual station's banner image (binary data).
Returns the station's type ("IHeartRadio").
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:
'option' => 'value' [,]
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. Blank lines and lines starting with a "#" sign are ignored.
Options specified here override any specified in ~/.config/StreamFinder/config.
Among options valid for IHeartRadio streams are the -keep and -skip options described in the new() function.
Optional text file for specifying various configuration options. Each option is specified on a separate line in the format below:
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.
NOTE: Options specified in the options parameter list will override those corresponding options specified in these files.
iheartradio
URI::Escape, HTML::Entities, LWP::UserAgent
wget
Please report any bugs or feature requests to bug-streamFinder-iheartradio at rt.cpan.org, or through the web interface at http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/ReportBug.html?Queue=StreamFinder-IHeartRadio. I will be notified, and then you'll automatically be notified of progress on your bug as I make changes.
bug-streamFinder-iheartradio at rt.cpan.org
You can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command.
perldoc StreamFinder::IHeartRadio
You can also look for information at:
RT: CPAN's request tracker (report bugs here)
http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bugs.html?Dist=StreamFinder-IHeartRadio
AnnoCPAN: Annotated CPAN documentation
http://annocpan.org/dist/StreamFinder-IHeartRadio
CPAN Ratings
http://cpanratings.perl.org/d/StreamFinder-IHeartRadio
Search CPAN
http://search.cpan.org/dist/StreamFinder-IHeartRadio/
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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