Thank you Chris. This is EXACTLY what I needed. It worked like a charm. My only difficulty was that my version of mplayer could not play the playlist file directly. I had to first download the playlist file and get the actual streaming URL from there. Rudy On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 04:43:04AM -0500, Chris Brannon wrote: > Rudy Vener wrote: > > > > I'm trying to locate a tool which when given a web page with a "Listen Live" > > link, can return the actual URL of an audio stream which can be handed > > off to mplayer. > > The shoutcast-search script may be useful for you. > It locates online streams that are registered with shoutcast.com. > Here's the link to the homepage: > http://www.k2h.se/code/shoutcast-search.html > > When I type > shoutcast-search wabc > I get the following: > http://yp.shoutcast.com/sbin/tunein-station.pls?id=1378084 > The URL points to a playlist, and you can pass it to mplayer, like so: > mplayer -playlist http://yp.shoutcast.com/sbin/tunein-station.pls?id=1378084 > > Note that shoutcast-search can (and often does) give multiple results. > E.G., the command "shoutcast-search classical" gives me 308 stations > at the moment. > > You can also get verbose output from the tool: > > shoutcast-search -v wabc > # Gives me the following output: > Search summary > ------------------------------ > # Lots of noise snipped from output. > WABC-AM [64kbps audio/mpeg] > http://yp.shoutcast.com/sbin/tunein-station.pls?id=1378084 > talk, 70 listeners > Now playing: > > Hope this helps, > -- Chris > > _______________________________________________ > Blinux-list mailing list > Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list -- Rudy Vener, Owner and founder Pizza Galaxy - Online ordering and Email marketing for independent restaurants. Phone: (203) 230-9662 Website: http://www.pizzagalaxy.com Restaurant owners, boost your sales with new customers, more visits and increased ticket size with Pizza Galaxy's Online Ordering and E-mail Marketing. Get our free report: The Top 7 Ways for Restaurants to get Customers Online. Go to http://www.pizzagalaxy.com/top7ways.html to get your free copy. see for yourself how customers hear about restaurant online ordering by following us on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/pizzagalaxy _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list