Is there a way to generate a customised playlist?

[one-moment-please]

Like right now playlists are separated by category, language, broadcast area, and sources.

Is there a way to make a custom playlist that has more granular filters? like say have one that is sports and news channels in Canada and the USA, and only in the english language? Like a docker image you can run on your own server that can do that, and can also scan for all geoblocked content or not working content and remove them from your playlist (or access them through a vpn), and then generate a guide for the new playlist? Then i can link jellyfin to the playlist and the guide information and it all works

[yudin-s]

There is not a single official URL builder for "sports + news, Canada + USA, English, only working/non-geoblocked" as one hosted playlist, but the data to build it is available. The hosted playlists are grouped one dimension at a time: category playlists such as categories/news.m3u and categories/sports.m3u, language playlists such as languages/eng.m3u, and country playlists such as countries/ca.m3u / countries/us.m3u.

For the intersection you described, use the JSON API instead of trying to combine the static M3U files. The useful endpoints are:

• https://iptv-org.github.io/api/channels.json for channel metadata, including country, categories, and is_nsfw
• https://iptv-org.github.io/api/feeds.json for feed-level languages and broadcast_area
• https://iptv-org.github.io/api/streams.json for stream URLs, plus fields like referrer, user_agent, quality, and label
• https://iptv-org.github.io/api/guides.json for EPG guide sources

So your generator would join those by channel/feed, then keep channels where category is sports or news, country/broadcast area is Canada or USA, and feed language includes eng. For Jellyfin, write an M3U with stable tvg-id values matching the channel IDs, then point Jellyfin at that M3U and a matching XMLTV guide source from the EPG data.

The one part I would not treat as a static filter is "working" or "geoblocked". The stream label can flag cases such as geo-blocking, but whether a URL actually works depends on the network/VPN/location doing the check. For that, run your own periodic health check from the same network or VPN path Jellyfin will use, then exclude failed streams before writing the final playlist.

If this answers the approach, please mark the reply as the answer.

[one-moment-please]

I have no idea how to do that but sure