NAME StreamFinder - Fetch actual raw streamable URLs from various radio-station websites. INSTALLATION To install this module, run the following commands: perl Makefile.PL make make test make install AUTHOR This module is Copyright (C) 2017-2019 by Jim Turner, "" Email: turnerjw784@yahoo.com All rights reserved. You may distribute this module under the terms of either the GNU General Public License or the Artistic License, as specified in the Perl README file. SYNOPSIS use strict; use StreamFinder; my $station = new StreamFinder(); die "Invalid URL or no streams found!\n" unless ($station); my $firstStream = $station->get(); print "First Stream URL=$firstStream\n"; my $url = $station->getURL(); print "Stream URL=$url\n"; my $stationTitle = $station->getTitle(); print "Title=$stationTitle\n"; my $stationID = $station->getID(); print "Station ID=$stationID\n"; my $icon_url = $station->getIconURL(); if ($icon_url) { #SAVE THE ICON TO A TEMP. FILE: my ($image_ext, $icon_image) = $station->getIconData(); if ($icon_image && open IMGOUT, ">/tmp/${stationID}.$image_ext") { binmode IMGOUT; print IMGOUT $icon_image; close IMGOUT; } } my $stream_count = $station->count(); print "--Stream count=$stream_count=\n"; my @streams = $station->get(); foreach my $s (@streams) { print "------ stream URL=$s=\n"; } DESCRIPTION StreamFinder accepts a valid radio station URL on supported websites and returns the actual streamurl, title, and cover art icon for that station. The purpose is that one needs one of these URLs in order to have the option to stream the station in one's own choice of audio player software rather than using their web browser and accepting any / all flash, ads, javascript, cookies, trackers, web-bugs, and other crapware that can come with that method of playing. The author uses his own custom all-purpose media player called "fauxdacious" (his custom hacked version of the open-source "audacious" audio player). "fauxdacious" incorporates this module to decode and play streams. The currently-supported websites are: radionomy.com, iheartradio.com, reciva.com, facebook, banned.video, and youtube / vimeo / brighteon, et. al. We used to support tunein.com, but they have since apparently wasted a ton of money on web-developers and script kiddies to so fsck up their stations' pages to make it impossible to obtain their hidden streams programatically. It amazes me the effort to which marketing-run operations will go to and web-development money they'll spend to prevent people from accessing their radio streams in alternate ways, even though the content is already paid for by the advertisements already played in the streams. Guess they are that desparate to track your web-activity, store crap in cookies on your browser, and pummel you to death with evem more useless add garbage. Our mission is to restore your freedom to access commercial and other streaming radio stations that already paid for and freely available over the air in the ways most convenient to YOU, the listener! We are NOT in the business to provide a means of circumventing copyright laws, however! Each site is supported by a separate subpackage (StreamFinder::*Package*), which is determined and selected based on the url when the StreamFinder object is created. The methods are overloaded by the selected subpackage's methods. One or more playable streams can be returned for each station. SUBROUTINES/METHODS new(*url*) Accepts a URL and creates and returns a new station object, or *undef* if the URL is not a valid station or no streams are found. $station->get() Returns an array of strings representing all stream urls found. $station->getURL() Similar to get() except it only returns a single stream representing the first valid stream found. $station->count() Returns the number of streams found for the station. $station->getStationID() Returns the station's ID. $station->getTitle() Returns the station's title (description). $station->getIconURL() Returns the url for the station's "cover art" icon image, if any. $station->getIconData() Returns a two-element array consisting of the extension (ie. "png", "gif", "jpeg", etc. and the actual icon image (binary data), if any. $station->getImageURL() Returns the url for the station's "cover art" banner image, if any. $station->getImageData() Returns a two-element array consisting of the extension (ie. "png", "gif", "jpeg", etc. and the actual station's banner image (binary data). DEPENDENCIES LWP::UserAgent RECCOMENDS URI::Escape; (Youtube) WWW::YouTube::Download; (Youtube) youtube-dl (Youtube, Facebook) wget (Reciva, Youtube, BannedVideo) BUGS Please report any bugs or feature requests to "bug-streamFinder at rt.cpan.org", or through the web interface at . I will be notified, and then you'll automatically be notified of progress on your bug as I make changes. SUPPORT You can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command. perldoc StreamFinder You can also look for information at: SEE ALSO Fauxdacious media player (https://wildstar84.wordpress.com/fauxdacious) * RT: CPAN's request tracker (report bugs here) * AnnoCPAN: Annotated CPAN documentation * CPAN Ratings * Search CPAN LICENSE AND COPYRIGHT Copyright 2017-2019 Jim Turner. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the the Artistic License (2.0). 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