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legistream_backend

This is the Python backend for Legistream.

Install with pip3:

pip3 install legistream-backend

View project on PyPI: https://pypi.org/project/legistream-backend/.

Info

This package uses different modules to get live stream data from the various Australian parliaments.

Currently supported parliaments:

  • Australian Capital Territory
  • Federal
  • New South Wales
  • Northern Territory
  • Queensland

Setup

  1. Install poetry:

    pip3 install poetry

  2. Install/update dependencies with poetry:

    poetry update

  3. Install ffmpeg:

    Linux

    sudo apt install ffmpeg

    Mac

    Install with brew:

    brew install ffmpeg

    Windows

    Official Windows builds of ffmpeg can be found here

Usage

Interpreting the streams

Every parliament module returns data as a list of StreamModel objects. Each StreamModel has these 3 properties:

  • Stream URL: string
  • Stream title: string
  • Stream status (is this stream live?): bool
  • Stream thumbnail URL (for use in conjuction with legistream-site)

Loop through streams

Note: The ACT is used here just as an example, this works for all the parliament modules.

from legistream_backend.site.act import ACTStreamExtractor

for stream in ACTStreamExtractor().streams:
    print(stream.url,
          stream.title,
          stream.is_live
    )

Notes

  1. Run all scripts using poetry:

    poetry run python3 <file>.py

  2. The South Australia stream extractor uses code adapted from the streamlink ustreamtv implementation.