I've been looking for content to watch in Spanish. Unfortunately, I can't always find what I'm looking for on torrent sites. However, I have noticed that sometimes the content I'm interested in is on a streaming site, but they don't offer downloads.

Are there any guides for downloading streams?

One thing I recently learned is that some (all?) of those streaming sites use HTTP Live Streaming. Apparently, I just need to find the URL for the master .m3u8 file? Then I can point yt-dlp to that URL to download all of the segments.

One obstacle to this approach is that a lot of these sites (all?) add a debugger trap thingy in order to deter the use of browser devtools.

Also, I didn't realize VLC can play .m3u8 streams, so you can verify the link there first.

Is there a more standard approach here? I feel like I'm fumbling my way through this.

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[–] yoqt5f91@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 3 days ago

https://gist.github.com/primaryobjects/7423d7982656a31e72542f60d30f9d30

[–] anamethatisnt@sopuli.xyz 20 points 4 days ago

I find using https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/hls-stream-detector/? makes it simple to grab streams url and download them using yt-dlp.

[–] BlueRingedOctopus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Unfortunately, I can't always find what I'm looking for on torrent sites

Try these sites - https://fmhy.pages.dev/non-english#downloading-descarga

And these - https://fmhy.pages.dev/non-english#torrenting-torrentear

[–] paequ2@lemmy.today 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Yep, great links. That's what I've been using. Not all the content I'm looking for is available as torrents though. On top of that, I'm mainly interested in Latino Spanish dubs, not Spanish Spanish.

I should try more sites from the downloading category though. I just automatically went to the torrenting section and skipped over others.