pass the public URL of a mytf1 video to open it in VLC. Made for linux.

mytf1.py

#!/usr/bin/env python3
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
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#  LPJ.py
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from sys import argv
from os import system
from html.parser import HTMLParser
#import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET
from lxml import html
import requests

def UrlToStr(url):
   import urllib.request
   connection = urllib.request.urlopen(url)
   page = connection.read()
   return page
    
def getLastURL():
   mainPage = str(UrlToStr("http://www.tf1.fr/tmc/quotidien-avec-yann-barthes/videos?filter=replay"))
   index = mainPage.find("videoLink", mainPage.index('class="content"'))
   startIndex = mainPage.rfind("href", 0, index) + 6
   endIndex = mainPage.find("html", startIndex) + 4
   return mainPage[startIndex:endIndex]


def main():
   if len(argv) == 1 or argv[1] == "last" or argv[1] == "2":
      vidURL = getLastURL()
      if len(argv) > 1 and argv[1] == "2":
          vidURL = vidURL.replace("premiere", "deuxieme")
      print(vidURL)
   else:
      vidURL = argv[1]
   #page = str(UrlToStr(vidURL))
   tree = html.fromstring(requests.get(vidURL).content)
   player = tree.xpath("//div[@class='iframe_player']")[0]
   vidID = player.get("data-watid")
   print('vlc ' + "http://www.wat.tv/get/iphone/"+ vidID +".m3u8?bwmin=100000&bwmax=3000000")
   system('vlc ' + "http://www.wat.tv/get/iphone/"+ vidID +".m3u8?bwmin=100000&bwmax=3000000")
   return 0

if __name__ == '__main__':
	main()