5 parallel research agents surveyed Stremio addons, F1 TV / Sky / DAZN
official APIs, IPTV M3U lists, and free-to-air broadcasters. The clean
finding: two community Stremio addons already index Sky Sports F1 +
DAZN F1 via their public HTTP APIs — no Stremio client required, just
GET /stream/<type>/<id>.json on the addon's hosted instance.
New `stremio.py` extractor pulls from:
- **TvVoo** (`https://tvvoo.hayd.uk/manifest.json`) — wraps Vavoo IPTV.
Lists Sky Sports F1 UK + Sky Sports F1 HD + Sky Sport F1 IT + Sky
Sport F1 HD DE + DAZN F1 ES. Returns 2 IP-bound m3u8 URLs per
channel. Source: github.com/qwertyuiop8899/tvvoo. Vavoo's CDN SSL
certs are currently expired so most clients fail verification today
— addon framework is right but delivery is degraded.
- **StremVerse** (`https://stremverse.onrender.com/manifest.json`) —
Returns 11+ streams per id (`stremevent_591` = F1, `stremevent_866`
= MotoGP). Mix of DRM-walled DASH, JW-broken-chain JWT URLs, and
HuggingFace-Space proxies that 404 without a per-instance api_password.
The extractor surfaces 15 candidate URLs per run; verifier filters to
the playable subset. Today that subset is 0 (Vavoo cert expiry + JW
chain + proxy auth), but the wiring is correct: as the addons fix
delivery or rotate to fresh URLs, candidates will start passing.
Other agent findings worth noting (not coded but documented):
- F1 TV Pro live = Widevine DASH; impossible without a CDM. VOD is
clean HLS but only post-session.
- Sky Go / DAZN / Viaplay / Canal+ = all Widevine + geo-fenced + active
DMCA enforcement. Pursuing not feasible.
- ServusTV AT (free F1 race weekends) = clean public HLS at
rbmn-live.akamaized.net/hls/live/2002825/geoSTVATweb/master.m3u8 but
geo-fenced; needs an Austrian-IP egress proxy/VPN.
- iptv-org/iptv has an F1 Channel (Pluto TV IE) at
jmp2.uk/plu-6661739641af6400080cd8f1.m3u8 — 24/7 free, BG works,
but only historic races + shoulder programming. Worth adding as a
curated entry later.
- boxboxbox.* (community-favourite F1 race-weekend domain) is dead
across all known TLDs as of today.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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