hiro_s

Coverage is the real story here. I checked it against the sources I scrape by hand and it reached every one, including the two that usually return a 403 to a datacentre IP. Transcripts came back clean and structured rather than as raw captions. For a data person, reliable access beats clever parsing. I have already retired two brittle scripts of my own.

I evaluated this the way I would any dataset: coverage, freshness, and structure. The country and language breakdowns are thorough, the M3U format is clean, and the EPG actually lines up with the streams. Dead links exist, as they always will with public sources, but the community prunes them faster than I expected. As an open data project it is genuinely well kept.