m3u8 Sniffer TV - Find and Play HLS Streaming URLs

works but doesnt work with braflix.. also please make a version for downloading subtitles

Great expansion kit, but can't get the twitch url lately

Richard StamDeveloperAug 25, 2024

Hi Shane, thanks for the feedback. I just checked Twitch and you are right that it is not seeing the m3u8 requests for it. I noticed something similar on another site and found that if the site is requesting the video from a service worker process it doesn't properly convey which browser tab the request is coming from, and that is why it is not showing in the extension. Update: A fix for this issue has now been released (v2.0.3) and the m3u8 requests from “unknown” tabs are handled by the “active” tab. Possible (rare) downsides of this approach will be detailed in the documentation of the next full release.

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I can go onto a website and separate the embedded m3u8 into it's own extension link. However, I can't download it. That's kind of an important. I read the comment saying that wasn't the purpose for this extension and that there are other programs that do that, but I can find literally zero extensions or downloadable programs capable of recognizing videos on streaming sites. This is literally the only one. So it's really unfortunate that you can't download videos with it. Finding programs and ... Show more

Richard StamDeveloperAug 5, 2024

Hi, thank you for your feedback, I'm glad you saw the comment to clarify. I'll need to update the extension's description to avoid this confusion. I may add the recording functionality in the future, but that is not my focus at the moment. I can suggest the following chrome extension for recording video streams: it is just called "Stream Recorder" and you can get it from the chrome web store at: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/stream-recorder/iogidnfllpdhagebkblkgbfijkbkjdmm or you can use the standalone VLC program, it can do just about anything you want with videos, including recording the stream.

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It works for the first and last links however sites get around this by spamming dozens of m3u8 links in the middle that you can't find using this extension. A "view all links" feature is required for future updates. Edit: I believe the developer is doing a great job maintaining and improving this as you can see from his response! I can't wait to see the autoplay unattended option!

Richard StamDeveloperJul 28, 2024

Hi Jeff, thank you for your feedback. I've also seen some sites that do what you describe and will probably add the ability to view the entire m3u8 link history for a site eventually. HLS m3u8 link sniffing is somewhat of an ongoing cat and mouse situation! At the moment my top priority is to finish the Auto Play features and automating error handling to allow the player to run continuously and unattended if possible (like a TV). This will currently only work as desired with sites for which the first m3u8 link found is the primary m3u8 link for the video stream. Fortunately most sites I have used behave in that manner.

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What's the point. Just use devtools network tab. I'd understand if it could actually download the stream (like advertised in the description), but it can't. It can only download the M3U8 playlist itsself which is absolutely useless.

Richard StamDeveloperJul 19, 2024

Hi Nesfield, thank you for your feedback. Yes, you can use the devtools/network to find the m3u8 URLs. This extension just makes that process easier and provides additional functionality which is described in detail in the extension's full documentation at: https://sniffertv.com/docs. I'm sorry you found the brief description misleading, There a quite a few other extensions that do a good job of downloading the actual video streams, so I wasn't so much interested in duplicating that functionality here. This extension is primarily designed to find and play the m3u8 URLs.

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It works! I spent hours finding a way to view somve m3u8 videos I wasn't able to watch and tham I found this

Awesome extension! I hope you can add a keyboard shortcut for copying the first link, would make it just perfect for me.

Fantastic, this resolved the issue I was having with a site blocking debugging. :D thanks for this ma dude! :)

This extension was perfect for me. It automagically shows the video's URL that I can easily copy and paste into VLC to either play directly and/or record HLS to mp4. Thank you!

it worked, i got the links. now i can use ffmpeg or online tool to download the whole video