Improved URL resolving. radio garden urls are actually holders or links, to other sources. This fix for example playing correctly the playlist with player such as Winamp (that doesn't auto resolve links) and provide the real URLs of the streams.

main.py

@@ -10,8 +10,7 @@ parser.add_argument('--country', help='Country name', type=str, required=True)
 parser.add_argument('--state', help='State or province name', type=str, required=False)
 args = parser.parse_args()
 
-
-BASE_URL = "http://radio.garden/api"
+BASE_URL = "https://radio.garden/api"
 
 def get_places():
     
@@ -25,6 +24,14 @@ def get_places():
 
     return sorted(list)
 
+def resolve_final_stream_url(rg_proxy_url):
+    try:
+        # Make a HEAD request to follow redirects but not download stream content
+        response = requests.get(rg_proxy_url, allow_redirects=True, stream=True, timeout=10)
+        return response.url  # This is the final resolved stream URL
+    except Exception as e:
+        print(f"[ERROR] Couldn't resolve URL for {rg_proxy_url}: {e}")
+        return rg_proxy_url  # fallback to original
 def get_stations(place_id):
         list = []
         
@@ -47,9 +54,9 @@ def m3u(stations):
 
     for station in stations:
         station_name = station[0]
-        stream_url = get_stream_url(station[1])
+        resolved_url = resolve_final_stream_url(get_stream_url(station[1]))
         f.write(f'#EXTINF:-1 tvg-name="{station_name}", {station_name}\n')
-        f.write(f'{stream_url}\n')
+        f.write(f'{resolved_url}\n')
     f.close()
 
 def main():