This is a fairly advanced guide but I’ll try my best to make it as digestible as possible to any individual with minimal knowledge about selfhosting. In this guide, we will learn how to feed Youtube live-streams into a TVHeadend (TVH) server as IPTV channels. May 14th, 2020: Added more info about streamlink install and outdated versions fixed a few typos. May 19th, 2020: Added info about TVH m3u re-fetch period and youtube4tvh cronjob for streams that change very often. June 23rd, 2020: Moved content from Blogger to my website and converted to markdown. The section about how to create an API key has been updated accordingly. September 15th, 2020: There’s a new release of the Youtube4TVH program that does not require the use of API keys. I will only keep this up for archiving purposes. The new tutorial is self-contained, so you don’t need to read this one first–just skip it altogether. In addition, the new tutorial is much more comprehensive than this one.
The integration has been greatly simplified and is more reliable than before. This tutorial has been deprecated because I wrote a new tutorial about the integration between Tvheadend and Streamlink, called TVHlink: Livestreams as IPTV channels with TVHeadend and Streamlink. Re-fetch period and youtube4tvh cronjobs.
