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Collection of publicly available IPTV channels

iptv-org.github.io

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If you use this main playlist link from the Github repo in VLC you can trawl through the whole list, pretty neat!

https://iptv-org.github.io/iptv/index.m3u

Using their lists almost daily with Hypnotix to watch news on the laptop without having to keep a browser open to TV official web pages that often show 80%+ advertising and/or flashing crap. There are also some good IPTV players on Kodi repositories.

https://github.com/linuxmint/hypnotix

https://kodi.tv/addons/

The related Awesome IPTV repo also has a helpful list of resources (Linux, Windows, iOS, Android apps, online tools etc) that work really well with these IPTV channels.

https://github.com/iptv-org/awesome-iptv

There's also https://github.com/linuxmint/hypnotix

I tried it a few months back and it was a mixed bag of working and not working streams

Worth noting before any outcry about breaking copyright: A lot of these streams are geo-restricted (based on IP, afaik), or encrypted in some other way. It's not a 100% sure, free and easy way to view the content of streams you otherwise shouldn't have access to.

i might be missing something, but there are not even any .m3u8 links on that page?

You can find them on their github repo [1]

[1] https://github.com/iptv-org/iptv?tab=readme-ov-file#playlist...

Excellent, now i am currently watching the Snooker on BBC2!

You are indeed missing something :) The "N stream" icon on the right shows you the stream URLs.

I don't understand what the "publicly available" means. I tried some of them and they seem to require logins or paying accounts. Does this mean that for such streams, I'm in a geo-restricted area? I wonder where some of these would _not_ be geo-restricted (especially e.g. "Canal+").

It means they're available to the "public", whose meaning changes depending on what country you're/the channel is in. As an example, the Swedish broadcasts from SVT (government TV) is "public" but only for people in Sweden, so if you're on a IP "located" outside of Sweden, you won't be able to watch those streams.

If you like this sort of stuff, Pluto TV is really good.

Their official app is ad-infested, tracker-infested, georestricted garbage. However, the streams directly don't implement any of this. Their geo blocks seem to be Deezer-style client side checks that don't even apply to you if you're using VLC or any other third-party app.

Basically no channels work, either DNS issues or requires creating accounts/payments.

Crashes my browser :(

Thanks for the links and sharing. Using VLC works a charm.

Via this post, I now know that I can watch Dog The Bounty Hunter on its own dedicated Pluto Channel 24/7, incredible

I wasn't expecting to see Cartoon Network, Food Network, MTV, Nickelodeon or FAPTV (Gay) in Russia.

A whole lot of Pluto in there.

There’s plenty of pirated paid cable channels there.

I’d be careful aggregating this.

Is it pirated or is it legit and you need login? I thought the latter, but list also had legit 'open access' channels from around the world that don't require anything to watch! :)

Actually, its free access to pirated cable channels, so the pirates are being pirated, and what can they really about that except rotate IPs on a daily basis, hence the daily list updates.

Any method of using this directly on an Amazon Fire Stick?

(besides VLC)

You can sideload Kodi on FireStick.

Dang. 41 in Afghanistan itself!!

Well, this is a lot.....

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