Live torrents for some old movies and pretty hard to find. I thought about somehow extracting .m3u8 but that didn’t worked out. Those sits are getting better at hiding real stream URL. Any way to easy do it or something?

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    21 hours ago

    What went wrong with the .m3u8 file? I’ve had lots of success ripping from websites using yt-dlp. For sites it doesn’t have explicit support for, it can fail if it can’t find the stream URL.

    In those cases, I open the Network tab of Firefox’s developer tools and try to find something that looks like a stream URL, and then copy it out of there and give it to yt-dlp. (Don’t forget to surround the URL in double quotes if the URL contains an &)

    If you provide the URL you’re trying to download from, I can try to take a look.