Download MSNBC episodes - Deprecated

msnbc-dl.py

#!/usr/bin/env python
import logging
import multiprocessing
import os
import urllib2
import subprocess
import sys
import time
from xml.etree import ElementTree


__version__ = '2016.07.11'


class MsnbcPlayer(object):
    def __init__(self, player_url):
        self.player_url = player_url

    def playlist_url(self):
        return self.player_url.replace('manifest=f4m', 'manifest=m3u')

    def playlist_xml(self):
        playlist_url = self.playlist_url()
        logging.info(playlist_url)
        response = urllib2.urlopen(playlist_url)
        response.readline()
        playlist = u'<smil>\n' + response.read()
        logging.info(playlist)
        return playlist

    def stream_url(self):
        xml = self.playlist_xml()
        tree = ElementTree.fromstring(xml)
        elem = tree.find('.//video')
        return elem.get('src')

    @staticmethod
    def video_mp4(stream_url, filename):
        process = multiprocessing.Process(target=subprocess.call, args=([
            'ffmpeg',
            '-y',  # Overwrite output file if necessary
            '-v', 'warning',  # Log only warnings and errors
            '-i', stream_url,
            '-codec', 'copy',  # Copy video codec
            '-bsf:a', 'aac_adtstoasc',  # Convert audio codec to AAC
            filename,
        ],))
        process.start()
        return process


def main(player_url, filename=None):
    sys.stdout.write('\nmsnbc-dl v{}\n'.format(__version__))
    sys.stdout.write('\nGetting stream URL...')
    sys.stdout.flush()
    client = MsnbcPlayer(player_url)
    stream_url = client.stream_url()
    sys.stdout.write(' Done!\n')
    sys.stdout.write(stream_url)
    sys.stdout.flush()

    if filename is not None:
        filename = os.path.abspath(filename)
        sys.stdout.write('\n\nConverting to MP4...')
        sys.stdout.flush()
        start_time = time.time()
        process = client.video_mp4(stream_url, filename)
        while process.is_alive() is True:
            time.sleep(5)
            sys.stdout.write('.')
            sys.stdout.flush()
        sys.stdout.write(' Done!')
        elapsed = int(time.time() - start_time)
        sys.stdout.write('\nElapsed: {}sec\n'.format(elapsed))
        sys.stdout.write(filename)
        sys.stdout.flush()


if __name__ == '__main__':
    player_url = sys.argv[1]
    try:
        filename = sys.argv[2]
    except IndexError:
        filename = None
    main(player_url, filename)