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I pipe free sports streams into Jellyfin

no ads, just HLS

Details

External ID
47689165
Source
HN
Company
—
Product
I pipe free sports streams into Jellyfin
Website domain
github.com
Launched
April 8, 2026
Cohort
—
Upvotes
120
Upvotes percentile
0.910025706940874
Tags
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Fetched at
Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Updated at
Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.

Enrichment

Theme
hardware hacking and device utilities
Vertical
Media & entertainment
Function
Marketplace
Audience
B2C
AI stance
Not AI
Project type
Hobby / open-source project
Normalized one-liner
ad-free sports streaming for jellyfin
Manually corrected
False

Could you build this?

Yes Scraping or extracting raw HLS (.m3u8) video stream manifests from free sports sites and proxying them into a Jellyfin Live TV / IPTV tuner is a straightforward Python or Node.js project.

Discussion

20 comments analyzed.

Competitors mentioned: Jellyfin, Home Assistant, Plex, YouTube TV, Sling TV

Concerns raised: Sports blackout restrictions limit access to local/regional games, Multiple streaming services required to watch all games (fragmented rights), Expensive subscription costs ($110-120+ per season/service), Upstream sources frequently change header requirements, Difficult to search and play specific games

Feature requests: Easy game search and playback interface, Support for pausing/rewinding live streams, Unified access to all games without blackouts, Local team game availability in home market, Plugin architecture for video stream integration

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one — 96 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #6 of 97 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 151 days after the earliest competitor.

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