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NAME

StreamFinder::Brighteon - Fetch actual raw streamable URLs from Brighteon.com.

AUTHOR

This module is Copyright (C) 2017-2021 by

Jim Turner, <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.

SYNOPSIS

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;

use StreamFinder::Brighteon;

die "..usage:  $0 ID|URL\n"  unless ($ARGV[0]);

my $video = new StreamFinder::Brighteon($ARGV[0]);

die "Invalid URL or no streams found!\n"  unless ($video);

my $firstStream = $video->get();

print "First Stream URL=$firstStream\n";

my $url = $video->getURL();

print "Stream URL=$url\n";

my $videoTitle = $video->getTitle();

print "Title=$videoTitle\n";

my $videoDescription = $video->getTitle('desc');

print "Description=$videoDescription\n";

my $videoID = $video->getID();

print "Video ID=$videoID\n";

my $artist = $video->{'artist'};

print "Artist=$artist\n"  if ($artist);

my $albumartist = $video->{'albumartist'};

print "Album Artist=$albumartist\n"  if ($albumartist);

my $icon_url = $video->getIconURL();

if ($icon_url) {   #SAVE THE ICON TO A TEMP. FILE:

	my ($image_ext, $icon_image) = $video->getIconData();

	if ($icon_image && open IMGOUT, ">/tmp/${videoID}.$image_ext") {

		binmode IMGOUT;

		print IMGOUT $icon_image;

		close IMGOUT;

	}

}

my $stream_count = $video->count();

print "--Stream count=$stream_count=\n";

my @streams = $video->get();

foreach my $s (@streams) {

	print "------ stream URL=$s=\n";

}

DESCRIPTION

StreamFinder::Brighteon accepts a valid full Brighteon video ID or URL on brighteon.com and returns the actual stream URL, title, and cover art icon for that video. The purpose is that one needs this URL in order to have the option to stream the video 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 play. 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 brighteon.com videos. This is a submodule of the general StreamFinder module.

Depends:

URI::Escape, HTML::Entities, LWP::UserAgent

The separate application program: youtube-dl, or a compatable program such as yt-dlp (only if wishing to use the -youtube option).

SUBROUTINES/METHODS

new(ID|url [, -youtube => yes|no|first|last|only ] [, -keep => "type1,type2?..." | [type1,type2?...] ] [, -secure [ => 0|1 ]] [, -debug [ => 0|1|2 ]])

Accepts a brighteon.com video ID or URL and creates and returns a new video object, or undef if the URL is not a valid Brighteon video or no streams are found. The URL can be the full URL, ie. https://www.brighteon.com/video-id, https://www.brighteon.com/channels/channel-id, or just video-id or channel-id. If a channel-id or channel URL is given, then the first (latest) video of that channel will be returned.

The optional -keep argument can be either a comma-separated string or an array reference ([...]) of stream types to keep (include) and returned in order specified (type1, type2...). Each "type" can be one of: extension (ie. m4a, mp4, etc.), "playlist", "stream", or ("any" or "all").

DEFAULT -keep list is: 'm4a,mpd,stream,all', meaning that all m4a streams followed by all "mpd" streams, followed by non-playlists, followed by all remaining (playlists: (pls) streams. More than one value can be specified to control order of search.

NOTE: -keep is ignored if -youtube is set to "only".

The optional -youtube argument can be set to "yes" or "last" - also include streams youtube-dl finds (last); "no" - only include streams embedded in the video's brighteon.com page, unless none are found; "only" - only include streams youtube-dl finds; or "first" - include streams youtube-dl finds first. Default is "yes". This is needed because currently the streams on the page: (mpd plays best but is unseekable, and the m3u8 (HLS) stream doesn't seem to work well). youtube-dl also returns a "chunky" m3u8 (HLS) stream that is seekable and seems to work ok.

The optional -secure argument can be either 0 or 1 (false or true). If 1 then only secure ("https://") streams will be returned.

DEFAULT -secure is 0 (false) - return all streams (http and https).

Additional options:

Certain youtube-dl (StreamFinder::Youtube) configuration options, namely format, formatonly, youtube-dl-args, and youtube-dl-add-args can be overridden here by specifying youtube-format, youtube-formatonly, youtube-dl-args, and youtube-dl-add-args arguments respectively. It is however, recommended to specify these in the Brighteon-specific configuration file (see CONFIGURATION FILES below. NOTE: These are only applicable when using the option: -youtube => yes|only|top, etc.

-log => "logfile"

Specify path to a log file. If a valid and writable file is specified, A line will be appended to this file every time one or more streams is successfully fetched for a url.

DEFAULT -none- (no logging).

-logfmt specifies a format string for lines written to the log file.

DEFAULT "[time] [url] - [site]: [title] ([total])".

The valid field [variables] are: [stream]: The url of the first/best stream found. [site]: The site name (Brighteon). [url]: The url searched for streams. [time]: Perl timestamp when the line was logged. [title], [artist], [album], [description], [year], [genre], [total], [albumartist]: The corresponding field data returned (or "-na-", if no value).

$video->get()

Returns an array of strings representing all stream URLs found.

$video->getURL([options])

Similar to get() except it only returns a single stream representing the first valid stream found.

Current options are: "random", "nopls", 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 "nopls" is specified, and the stream to be returned is a ".pls" playlist, it is first fetched and the first entry (or a random entry if "random" is specified) is returned. This is needed by Fauxdacious Mediaplayer. If "noplaylists" is specified, and the stream to be returned is a "playlist" (either .pls or .m3u? extension), it is first fetched and the first entry (or a random entry if "random" is specified) in the playlist is returned.

$video->count()

Returns the number of streams found for the video.

$video->getID()

Returns the video's Brighteon ID (alphanumeric).

$video->getTitle(['desc'])

Returns the video's title, or (long description).

$video->getIconURL(['artist'])

Returns the URL for the video's "cover art" icon image, if any. If 'artist' is specified, the channel artist's icon url is returned, if any.

$video->getIconData(['artist'])

Returns a two-element array consisting of the extension (ie. "png", "gif", "jpeg", etc.) and the actual icon image (binary data), if any. If 'artist' is specified, the channel artist's icon data is returned, if any.

$video->getImageURL()

Returns the URL for the video's "cover art" banner image, which for Brighteon videos is always the icon image, as Brighteon does not support a separate banner image at this time.

$video->getImageData()

Returns a two-element array consisting of the extension (ie. "png", "gif", "jpeg", etc.) and the actual video's banner image (binary data).

$video->getType()

Returns the video's type ("Brighteon").

CONFIGURATION FILES

The default root location directory for StreamFinder configuration files is "~/.config/StreamFinder". To use an alternate location directory, specify it in the "STREAMFINDER" environment variable, ie.: $ENV{STREAMFINDER} = "/etc/StreamFinder".

~/.config/StreamFinder/Brighteon/config

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: NOTE: Do not follow the lines with a semicolon, comma, or any other separator. Non-numeric values should be surrounded with quotes, either single or double. Blank lines and lines beginning with a "#" sign as their first non-blank character are ignored as comments.

'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.

Options specified here override any specified in ~/.config/StreamFinder/config.

Among options valid for Brighteon streams is the -keep and -youtube options described in the new() function. Also, various youtube-dl (StreamFinder::Youtube) configuration options, namely format, formatonly, youtube-dl-args, and youtube-dl-add-args can be overridden here by specifying youtube-format, youtube-formatonly, youtube-dl-args, and youtube-dl-add-args arguments respectively. NOTE: These are only applicable when using the option: -youtube => yes|only|top, etc.

~/.config/StreamFinder/config

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.

NOTE: Options specified in the options parameter list of the new() function will override those corresponding options specified in these files.

KEYWORDS

brighteon

DEPENDENCIES

URI::Escape, HTML::Entities, LWP::UserAgent

RECCOMENDS

youtube-dl (or yt-dlp, or other compatable program)

wget

BUGS

Please report any bugs or feature requests to bug-streamFinder-brighteon at rt.cpan.org, or through the web interface at http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/ReportBug.html?Queue=StreamFinder-Brighteon. I will be notified, and then you'll automatically be notified of progress on your bug as I make changes.

SUPPORT

You can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command.

perldoc StreamFinder::Brighteon

You can also look for information at:

LICENSE AND COPYRIGHT

Copyright 2017-2021 Jim Turner.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the the Artistic License (2.0). You may obtain a copy of the full license at:

http://www.perlfoundation.org/artistic_license_2_0

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