youtube-stream-status
Small Python3 script to check the status of a YouTube live stream.
Usage: python3 ./check.py [options] <youtube url>
-q, --quiet Do not output anything to stdout
-w, --wait Keep polling until the stream starts, then exit
The script will exit with code 0 if the stream is online. If used without --wait, will exit with code 2 if the stream is not online.
Use case
Automatically start downloading a live stream once it goes online
STREAM_URL=<url> python3 ./check.py --wait "$STREAM_URL" && ffmpeg -i $(youtube-dl -g "$STREAM_URL") -c copy stream.ts