New Extractor Idea: generic HLS / m3u8 stream extractor

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Assessment

Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Quiet
Tech stack
playwright, python
Domain
backend, tooling

Research direction

The issue names no files or tests. Review the repository's existing plugin and extractor entry points, then see how Chrome/Playwright network capture and ffmpeg/yt-dlp integration are handled. Done means detecting .m3u8/HLS responses and saving the playlist or remuxing the best stream.

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Description

Generic HLS / m3u8 stream extraction for pages that embed video/audio players.

extractor opens the page with Chrome/Playwright, watches network traffic for .m3u8/HLS responses, then saves the playlist and/or remuxes the best stream with ffmpeg/yt-dlp

Dominant language
Python
Stars
14
Forks
3
Avg merge
3h 6m
Merged PRs (30d)
17

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