youtube-dl record live stream segmentation

Would you please help me to record live stream as some segments with Youtube-dl?

For example record a live stream every 30mins automatically

3 Answers

I have been able to capture live webstreams with youtube-dl using this command:

youtube-dl -f best "stream url" -o "path to output file" 

You can use streamlink to download a live stream to a file on your local machine:

streamlink -o output.mp4 <url> best

Here, <url> can be a YouTube live stream URL.

You could wrap this call in a script that is periodically started (e.g. via cron)

Try my ee.yrewind utility. You can find it on Github.

This program can download required time interval of any Youtube livestream.