YouTube Restreamer testing

The purpose of this repo is to experiment with how to restream City of Toronto YouTube Live videos to a third-party RTMP endpoint.

Some potential use-cases:

• Send to third-party platform endpoint, like Twitch, as make use of their services to engage audience.
• Expose endpoint on server for consumption by local Open Broadcaster Software, to use the feed as one camera of a remixed broadcast.

Requirements

Tested against a fresh DigitalOcean instance of Ubuntu 16.04, 512MB RAM.

Setup

Add this to your hostsfile:

# /etc/hosts
138.197.136.92 restreamer.dev

Run these commands:

patcon@workstation~$ ssh [email protected]
root@workstation:~$ apt-get update && apt-get upgrade
root@workstation:~$ apt-get install python python-pip
root@workstation:~$ pip install youtube_dl

Usage

We are testing the restream_to_youtube.sh script on a remote machine to get the best bandwidth. The test.sh script will upload the main script to the server and then run it.

Get the URL of a live feed from here: https://www.youtube.com/live

# Defaults to using an archived url (not live)
./test.sh [ <youtube-video-url> ]

References

• ytdl-org/youtube-dl#2124
• https://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/download.html