[twitter] Support live streams

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Make sure you are using the latest version: run youtube-dl --version and ensure your version is 2016.09.27. If it’s not read this FAQ entry and update. Issues with outdated version will be rejected.

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If the purpose of this issue is a bug report, site support request or you are not completely sure provide the full verbose output as follows:

Add -v flag to your command line you run youtube-dl with, copy the whole output and insert it here. It should look similar to one below (replace it with your log inserted between triple ```):

proxychains4 youtube-dl -v https://hlslive-llc.med1.m.lv.twimg.com/ls01/twitter/2016/09/27/TWITTER_VIDEO_bloomberg_debate_1_20160927/3500K/3500_slide_twv1.m3u8
[proxychains] config file found: /usr/local/Cellar/proxychains-ng/4.7/etc/proxychains.conf
[proxychains] preloading /usr/local/Cellar/proxychains-ng/4.7/lib/libproxychains4.dylib
[proxychains] DLL init
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'-v', u'https://hlslive-llc.med1.m.lv.twimg.com/ls01/twitter/2016/09/27/TWITTER_VIDEO_bloomberg_debate_1_20160927/3500K/3500_slide_twv1.m3u8']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2016.09.27
[proxychains] DLL init
[debug] Python version 2.7.9 - Darwin-14.5.0-x86_64-i386-64bit
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 3.0.1-tessus
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[generic] 3500_slide_twv1: Requesting header
[proxychains] Strict chain  ...  127.0.0.1:1080  ...  hlslive-llc.med1.m.lv.twimg.com:443  ...  OK
[generic] 3500_slide_twv1: Downloading m3u8 information
[proxychains] Strict chain  ...  127.0.0.1:1080  ...  hlslive-llc.med1.m.lv.twimg.com:443  ...  OK
[debug] Invoking downloader on u'https://hlslive-llc.med1.m.lv.twimg.com/ls01/twitter/2016/09/27/TWITTER_VIDEO_bloomberg_debate_1_20160927/3500K/3500_slide_twv1.m3u8'
[download] Destination: 3500_slide_twv1-3500_slide_twv1.mp4
[debug] ffmpeg command line: ffmpeg -y -headers 'Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:10.0) Gecko/20150101 Firefox/47.0 (Chrome)
' -i https://hlslive-llc.med1.m.lv.twimg.com/ls01/twitter/2016/09/27/TWITTER_VIDEO_bloomberg_debate_1_20160927/3500K/3500_slide_twv1.m3u8 -c copy -f mp4 -bsf:a aac_adtstoasc file:3500_slide_twv1-3500_slide_twv1.mp4.part
[proxychains] DLL init
ffmpeg version 3.0.1-tessus Copyright (c) 2000-2016 the FFmpeg developers
  built with Apple LLVM version 6.0 (clang-600.0.57) (based on LLVM 3.5svn)
  configuration: --cc=/usr/bin/clang --prefix=/opt/ffmpeg --as=yasm --extra-version=tessus --enable-avisynth --enable-fontconfig --enable-gpl --enable-libass --enable-libbluray --enable-libfreetype --enable-libgsm --enable-libmodplug --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libopencore-amrnb --enable-libopencore-amrwb --enable-libopus --enable-libschroedinger --enable-libsnappy --enable-libsoxr --enable-libspeex --enable-libtheora --enable-libvidstab --enable-libvo-amrwbenc --enable-libvorbis --enable-libvpx --enable-libwavpack --enable-libx264 --enable-libx265 --enable-libxavs --enable-libxvid --enable-libzmq --enable-version3 --disable-ffplay --disable-indev=qtkit --disable-indev=x11grab_xcb
  libavutil      55. 17.103 / 55. 17.103
  libavcodec     57. 24.102 / 57. 24.102
  libavformat    57. 25.100 / 57. 25.100
  libavdevice    57.  0.101 / 57.  0.101
  libavfilter     6. 31.100 /  6. 31.100
  libswscale      4.  0.100 /  4.  0.100
  libswresample   2.  0.101 /  2.  0.101
  libpostproc    54.  0.100 / 54.  0.100
[proxychains] Strict chain  ...  127.0.0.1:1080  ...  hlslive-llc.med1.m.lv.twimg.com:443  ...  OK
[proxychains] Strict chain  ...  127.0.0.1:1080  ...  media-api.m.lv.twimg.com:443  ...  OK
Unable to open key file https://media-api.m.lv.twimg.com/programs/38129399/keys/id/20186121
[proxychains] Strict chain  ...  127.0.0.1:1080  ...  hlslive-llc.med1.m.lv.twimg.com:443  ...  OK
[hls,applehttp @ 0x7fe651805600] Error when loading first segment 'https://hlslive-llc.med1.m.lv.twimg.com/ls01/twitter/2016/09/27/TWITTER_VIDEO_bloomberg_debate_1_20160927/3500K/03/21/54.ts'
https://hlslive-llc.med1.m.lv.twimg.com/ls01/twitter/2016/09/27/TWITTER_VIDEO_bloomberg_debate_1_20160927/3500K/3500_slide_twv1.m3u8: Invalid data found when processing input


ERROR: ffmpeg exited with code 1
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/bin/youtube-dl", line 11, in <module>
    sys.exit(main())
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/youtube_dl/__init__.py", line 449, in main
    _real_main(argv)
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/youtube_dl/__init__.py", line 439, in _real_main
    retcode = ydl.download(all_urls)
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 1791, in download
    url, force_generic_extractor=self.params.get('force_generic_extractor', False))
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 705, in extract_info
    return self.process_ie_result(ie_result, download, extra_info)
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 751, in process_ie_result
    return self.process_video_result(ie_result, download=download)
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 1435, in process_video_result
    self.process_info(new_info)
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 1699, in process_info
    success = dl(filename, info_dict)
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 1641, in dl
    return fd.download(name, info)
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/youtube_dl/downloader/common.py", line 354, in download
    return self.real_download(filename, info_dict)
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/youtube_dl/downloader/external.py", line 43, in real_download
    self.get_basename(), retval))
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/youtube_dl/downloader/common.py", line 162, in report_error
    self.ydl.report_error(*args, **kargs)
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 568, in report_error
    self.trouble(error_message, tb)
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 530, in trouble
    tb_data = traceback.format_list(traceback.extract_stack())

[odeke-em]

So Twitter now supports live for anyone https://twitter.com/twitter/status/809035848138178562 and https://blog.twitter.com/2016/go-live-on-twitter. Now we’ll have more test streams.

[remitamine]

https://twitter.com/i/live/770331194252636160 https://twitter.com/i/live/757963685461565440 https://twitter.com/i/live/769568718233841665