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Read stream from Facebook Live Videos – Facebook api

I would like create a server to create subtitles for live videos on Facebook. I use Google Speech to convert sound to text. However, in order to do that, I need to read the facebook live streams.

Using Facebook Live API, with me/live_videos, I get the following response:

{
      "status": "LIVE",
      "stream_url": "rtmp://rtmp-api.facebook.com:80/rtmp/{id}",
      "secure_stream_url": "rtmps://rtmp-api.facebook.com:443/rtmp/{id},
      "embed_html": "<iframe src="https://www.facebook.com/video/embed?video_id={video_id}" width="400" height="400" frameborder="0"></iframe>",
      "id": "{id}"
    },

How can I read the streams from the above links?

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    I figure out that there is no way to get the current stream from Facebook now. Maybe they should add this feature to their API.


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    You can get the stream of ongoing live which you can play using any Dash Player.
    To get the stream URL of Live Video, follow these steps:

    1. Use the LIVE_ID of video (not Video_ID) to make the request.
    2. Send a get request at this end point /LIVE_ID with fields as ‘access_token’ and ‘dash_preview_url’.
    3. This will return the URL of the ongoing live stream which can be played using any DASH Player.

    You can refer to official documentation for more information.

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