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Download encrypted HTTP live streaming video

Salad Lam on January 31, 2024

Notice I wrote this article and was originally published on Qiita on 18 March 2023. m3u8 file Belows is an example of str...
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Nikita • • Edited

Thank you!
But what sholu I do if

#EXT-X-KEY:METHOD=AES-128,URI="[KEY]",IV=[IV]
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Salad Lam •

RFC8216 defines the format of m3u8 file, and it do not state that the decryption key can be put in the m3u8 file directly.

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Frank •

Thanks for your article!! Tried but not all have the key available in the metadata. Do we have any other way to do it without that key?

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Salad Lam •

Decryption key is the key information to protect video stream, so it is not easy for you to get the key. The key may in one of the variables of related JavaScript code.