Tata Sky/ Play IPTV Script generator

A script to generate the m3u playlist containing direct streamable file (.mpd or MPEG-DASH or DASH) based on the channels that the user has subscribed on the Tata Sky portal.

NOTE: Low maintainance, PRs will be accepted

Migration notice

This repository is now maintained via Github Actions only, and I don't personally maintain it. It initially began as a proof of concept code for being able to generate an m3u from Tata Play servers. It was not very user friendly, as it was just done for curiosity. Shravan has rendered my research into a very user friendly method of generation, which you can take a look here. Saif has also done a brilliant job here. However, if you've come here and are reading this, kindly star the repository and go to any one of these

Requirements

• A working brain
• Knowledge of basic python
• A working Tata Sky/ Play account
• Channels that you want to watch, already subscribed (I'm sorry, no freebies)
• An app capable of reading a m3u file

How to use

I know you would love to get your hands on how this works, but hold on and read before you proceed further

The methods are divided into Easy and Difficult based on how comfortable you are with the commandline. The Easy guide is recommended if you have no working knowledge of Python or scripting in general

The Easy Way (Using an App)

• Login with your SID, RMN and OTP/ Password(deprecated) first
• Once you login, your details are saved to your local storage so that you don't have to enter the details again and again
• Every 24 hours, the playlist expires, so the app gives you the next expiry time and you will have to generate your playlist again before that time
• The app can be found in the releases page

Minimum Supported  Android Version : Android 5.0

The Difficult Way (Using a Script)

Setting up your environment

• Make sure you have python up and running on your system. If you don't know how to do this then well, don't think of proceeding further
• You need requests to be installed. Do that by using pip install requests

Running the scripts

• Clone this to your directory using git clone https://github.com/ForceGT/TSPrivateAPI or download the zip file and then go inside the code_samples directory and open your terminal there
• Change to the code_samples directory by using cd code_samples
• Simply run main.py (the main script) using the following code

    python main.py

• You will get options to login using the different methods, upon successful login a userDetails.json file is created which contains important details of the user. The accessToken has to be updated from time to time. To do so run the login logic again. If you delete the userDetails.json file you will have to login again so please be careful

• You can generate m3u file by selecting option 3. This generates allChannelPlaylist.m3u file in the current directory.NOTE: Please run this only after logging in using Step 1 or 2 otherwise the script exits with an error

• You need to login just once usually, it will create a userDetails.json file once you login, and then you can just regenerate the playlist each day when you would like to use it. If you don't see the userDetails.json file anywhere, then you may have to login again

Some Good M3U Players for different platforms

Find some good M3u players here

Auto Generating Playlists in 24 hours

The issue with the playlist, is that it expires in 24 hours as the access tokens have a validity of 24 hours. So the straightforward way would be do the entire process (without login) again after the playlist expires but man is lazy and so there are two brilliant solutions so that you lazy bums don't have to re-generate after a day

• Take a look at Shravan's Idea
• Take a look at Saif's Idea

How it works

If you're interested in how this mechanism works, Refer to docs

Discussion and Support

License and Disclosures

This code is just a CASE STUDY on how the authentication mechanism and live streaming using IPTV works I am in no way responsible if you misuse the code and cause revenue loss to the concerned parties and owners of the portal

This code is protected under the MIT license