The short answer

Every list on this page is published by an open project, and every one of them opens in the browser player in a single click. Pick a country or a category, open it, and the channels appear. The file travels from the project that maintains it straight to your browser. We do not host, index, or relay any of it.

Open a public playlist now

Start here. These are the whole-collection indexes, and the grouped versions are far easier to work through than the flat one. Counts are the number of entries in the file on 21 September 2026, and they move every week.

IPTV M3U playlist live TV by country

A country file loads in a fraction of the time the global index takes, and it is small enough to actually read. These are the twelve largest.

Playlists by category

The same collection cut by subject instead of geography. News is the largest and holds the highest share of official broadcaster feeds.

Sport, soccer and the subscription channels

Treat this one carefully. Live rights are sold exclusively and expensively, so a public list carrying ESPN, DAZN or a league’s own channel is almost certainly not carrying it with permission. Plenty does sit there legitimately: national broadcasters showing sport they hold the rights to, club and federation channels, free ad-supported sport services. Soccer is the hardest of the lot. For one specific match the answer is the rights holder in your country, and no playlist changes that.

If a list will not open in one click

Some servers refuse requests that come from a web page. The one-click link cannot work against those, because your browser is never allowed to read the file, so you bring it in by hand instead. Two ways, both in the player’s Add tab.

  • Pasting a public M3U playlist address into the player's import fieldPaste the address. Copy it from the field on any row above.
  • Dropping a downloaded M3U8 playlist file onto the player's upload areaOr download it, then drop the file in. It never leaves your machine.

Free M3U playlist GitHub projects

Both collections above live on GitHub, which is what makes them worth using: every change is public, every entry has a history, and anyone can see who added what.

iptv-org/iptvThe main repository behind the country, category and language indexes.Free-TV/IPTVThe smaller curated list, with its own maintainers and rules.iptv-org/awesome-iptvA catalogue of related tools, players and other collections.iptv-org/databaseThe channel metadata the playlists are generated from.

Reading a repository is quicker than it looks. The README below the file list explains how the collection is arranged and where the published files live. The commit history tells you whether anyone is still maintaining it. Use the repository search when you already know the station you want, then open that file’s history to see when the entry last changed.

Free ad-supported television, often the better answer

People hunting for a playlist file routinely miss an entire category: free ad-supported streaming television, usually shortened to FAST. Pluto TV, Tubi, Samsung TV Plus, Xumo and the Roku Channel all run licensed live channels at no cost, funded by advertising rather than by a subscription. The licensing is done properly, which means the programming is cleared for the regions each service actually operates in and the channel list does not rot the way a scraped one does. Nothing to clean. Nothing to check. That is the part no community collection can promise you.

The trade-off is access: most run through their own apps and will not hand you an M3U address. Public broadcasters are the exception, and so are a surprising number of government, university and municipal channels. If you want one specific station, searching that broadcaster’s own site is a better first move than any collection. Testing a player rather than looking for something to watch? Use our HLS test streams instead, which are published by Apple, Akamai and Dolby for exactly that purpose.

How to judge a source before you rely on it

A long channel list is not a useful one. Six things separate a collection worth keeping from one that will waste an afternoon:

  • Recent changes

    Commits in the last few weeks mean somebody is still repairing broken entries rather than having walked away two years ago.

  • A documented index

    A real description, a table of what is in the collection, contribution rules. Lists that explain nothing rarely survive contact with a player.

  • Traceable entries

    You can see where a stream comes from and what the maintainers say about it. Shortened links that hide the host are the opposite of this.

  • A believable channel count

    A headline number far larger than the documentation accounts for usually means duplicates, or entries nobody has tested.

  • No unexplained software

    A list that needs an unknown application or a browser extension before it will play is not a playlist problem.

  • Named rights holders

    An entry naming a subscription broadcaster the project has no relationship with is the clearest signal to leave a list alone.

Clean a list up before you move it elsewhere

A twelve thousand entry index is not what you want on a television. Run the file through the M3U8 stream checker to see which entries respond and which time out, then use the playlist cleaner to drop the malformed ones and the duplicate remover for channels that appear four times over.

For manual edits, open the result in the online playlist editor. Building a list from your own server instead? Start with the playlist creator. Our tools work on the file you bring; they do not include channels.

Open web playerAnalyze HLS streamEditorAll tools

Common playback problems

  • A channel no longer responds

    Public links rot. Confirm it with the stream checker, drop the dead entry, and look at the project page to see whether a replacement has already been committed.

  • The list will not load at all

    The project has to send an Access-Control-Allow-Origin header before a browser is allowed to read its file. Every source on this page does. One that does not has to be downloaded instead.

  • The browser reports a CORS error

    Different problem. Here it is the stream server refusing playback from a web page, not the playlist, so try the provider’s own app.

  • Playback buffers or stutters

    Check your connection first. Then inspect the stream with the HLS stream analyzer and switch to a lower quality variant if the provider publishes one.

Frequently asked questions

  • Where do these lists come from?

    Open projects that publish their own index files, chiefly iptv-org and Free-TV. Both document how the collection is arranged and record every change in public.

  • Does GitHub check every stream in a list?

    No. GitHub hosts the repository, and the project contributors maintain what is in it. Check the update history for the part of the list you plan to use.

  • Why did a channel stop working?

    Public entries change constantly. Run the file through the stream checker, drop the dead entries, then load the list again.

  • Do the lists pass through your server?

    No. Your browser requests the file from the project directly. It never reaches us, which is also why a source that blocks browser requests will not load.

What this page is, and what it is not

This is a directory of third-party sources. We do not host, provide, index, or distribute any channels, streams, or playlists, and we are not affiliated with any broadcaster or rights holder. No streams are served from our systems: the player runs in your browser and connects straight to whatever address you supply. Every collection listed here is independently maintained and can change without notice.

You are responsible for having the right to access anything you open with our tools. If you believe material we link to infringes your copyright, see our copyright and takedown policy.