How to get the streaming URL of YT

[-Ketzer-]

A retirement home films events and streams them as a YouTube live video. So that this live streaming can also be received on old televisions, it has to be converted. To do this, I need the streaming URL of the YouTube live video.

In the past, I was able to display this URL in the VLC Player under Media Information or Codec Information in the "Location:" section and copy this URL. My application worked with this.

Now it no longer works. The URL is still displayed truncated, but I can no longer copy the text. Apparently VLC Player now prevents this.

Is there a simple solution to get the URL of the HLS?

Or does YouTube no longer work at all and do I have to use a different service?

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

This is not possible firstly because YouTube now separates audio and video tracks, and secondly because YouTube expires their media URLs fast, to force opening the intended web page.

[-Ketzer-]

Thank you, I was afraid of that. So YouTube has changed the function drastically. Do you know where these changes are described which I can present the users?

[Mercury048]

Use yt-dlp --get-url. It will return a URL that VLC will play.