Automated Chaturbate Recording Under Linux

[ohhdemgirls]

https://github.com/ohhdemgirls/CaptureBate/

CaptureBate lets you follow and archive your favorite models shows on chaturbate.com

Requirements
(Debian 7, minimum)

RTMPDump(ksv) used to capture the streams.

BeautifulSoup4 the screen-scraping library.

ffmpeg compiled with support for libmp3lame & libspeex audio for converting the output files.

Setup
First off you need a chaturbate account, once you're signed up put your credentials in the config.conf file, next you need to get your hashed password for RTMPDump. To get your hash you need to be signed in, then go any models page who is currently online, right click to view page source and search for pbkdf2_sha256$ the full hash will look something like pbkdf2_sha256$12000$QwwcaxjaV3Ik$cZHXVde52w+Fl6In5 4Ay5ZeMQMAFueQgwnnLbkTWT5g\u003D copy your hash into a text editor and escape each $ with a \ then replace u003D with = once you've formatted your hash it should look like pbkdf2_sha256\$12000\$QwwcaxjaV3Ik\$cZHXVde52w+Fl6 In54Ay5ZeMQMAFueQgwnnLbkTWT5g\= you can then paste it into the rtmpdump line modellists.py#L79 be sure to also replace the username on the same line just before your hash.

Now set your output directory in config.conf *optional, will default to CaptureBate/Captured/ Be mindful when capturing many streams at once to have plenty of space on disk and the bandwidth available or you'll endup dropping a lot of frames and the files will be useless.

Before you can start capturing streams you first need to follow the models you want on site and then paste their usernames into the wishlist.txt file, once you have done this you're ready to start main.py

Running & Output
To start capturing streams you need to run python main.py I reccomend you do this in screen as there is no output and it can just be left running in the background. To see what's going on run tail -f output.log

Standard output should look something this when recording streams ..

17/11/2014 09:37:13 PM INFO:Connecting to https://chaturbate.com/auth/login/
17/11/2014 09:37:13 PM INFO:Starting new HTTPS connection (1): chaturbate.com
17/11/2014 09:37:15 PM INFO:0 Models in the list before checking: []
17/11/2014 09:37:15 PM INFO:Redirecting to https://chaturbate.com/followed-cams/
17/11/2014 09:37:16 PM INFO:[Models_list] 2 models are online: [u'hottminx', u'adryeenmely']
17/11/2014 09:37:16 PM INFO:[Compare_lists] Checking model list:
17/11/2014 09:37:16 PM INFO:[Compare_lists] hottminx is still being recorded
17/11/2014 09:37:16 PM INFO:[Compare_lists] adryeenmely is still being recorded
17/11/2014 09:37:16 PM INFO:[Loop]List of new models for adding: []
17/11/2014 09:37:16 PM INFO:[Select_models] Which models are approved?
17/11/2014 09:37:16 PM WARNING:[Select_models]  No models for approving
17/11/2014 09:37:16 PM INFO:[Loop]Model list after check looks like: 0 models:
 [] 
 and models currently being recorded are:
 ['adryeenmely', 'hottminx']
17/11/2014 09:37:16 PM INFO:[Sleep] Waiting for next check (45 seconds)

Encoding
Once you've captured some streams you're going to need to convert the audio to have them play nice in vlc, etc. This is where ffmpeg comes in, there is no need to convert the video so this doesn't take too long. To convert individual files do ffmpeg -i input.flv -vcodec copy -acodec libmp3lame output.mp4 this will convert the speex audio to mp3 and change the container to mp4 (stream is h264)

If you want to batch convert your captured streams run find ./ -name '*.flv' -execdir mkdir converted_bates \;; for file in *.flv; do ffmpeg -i "$file" -vcodec copy -acodec libmp3lame "converted_bates/${file%.flv}.mp4"; done from your CaptureBate/Captured/ directory.

If you don't want to do any conversion you can install the speex audio codec which is a huge pain in the ass to get working correctly under linux/vlc.

A project like this needs to have users and as much active development as possible to stay alive, while there are a few other methods to capture streams CaptureBate aims at being a set and forget archiving tool for your favorite models, follow CaptureBate on GitHub and help by sharing anywhere you see fit or fixing any issues that may arise.

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