FRESH

Hacker News

Show HN: I pipe free sports streams into Jellyfin – no ads, just HLS

114 points by pruz

by pruz

2 subcomments

by kstrauser

7 subcomments

I love it. I’m willing to pay for streaming sports services, to a point, but all of them are freaking insane. For example, my wife and I like watching baseball. So let’s do the right thing and pay for it, right? LOL, as if that were possible. For $120[0] we can watch the Giants games, or for $220, all games… but subject to blackout. For $120, we can’t actually watch home games. We’d have to pay for a separate streaming service for those.
It’s similar for NFL, and I assume NHL and NBA, too. I’d pay to watch the stuff I watch if it were possible, but it’s not!
[0] https://www.mlb.com/live-stream-games/subscribe/giants

by hybirdss

0 subcomment

Smart approach to the header problem. I hit something similar building a Netflix episode resolver — the data is all there in the HTML but you need the right headers or you get nothing. Ended up just wrapping curl with the right User-Agent and it worked without needing a full browser.
The auto-learned Referer per upstream host is a nice touch. How often do the upstream sources change their header requirements on you?

by js2

2 subcomments

by dchuk

1 subcomments

Very cool. I’ve used a paid service for years now that gets me all sorts of sports and channels very reliably, I would assume they’re doing something similar to make this work. Might try this though with my home server setup.
Think it could be ran from within a docker container so I could add it to an existing docker compose media server setup?

by neko_ranger

0 subcomment

by amusingimpala75

0 subcomment

Since this works on the raw data streams from the official distributor, this is legal, correct?

by kaan_keskin

0 subcomment

0 subcomment

by dharbin

0 subcomment

by dewey

0 subcomment

It's a cool hack...but also a bit unethical as the reason they are free is that there's ads. I almost feel it's more ethical to sign up for a paid pirated IPTV service and then use that, with the benefit of that being more stable and probably with higher quality.