M3U playlist checker

How the checker works

Your playlist is parsed in your browser, then each stream URL is requested through our relay, which follows redirects and reports the real upstream status. A browser cannot do this alone: most stream hosts send no CORS headers, so a direct request fails regardless of whether the stream is alive.

Up to 200 channels are probed per run, a handful at a time so a large playlist doesn’t hammer the source servers. That sample is more than enough to judge a list’s overall health.

Reading the result

• 95–100% online — a well-maintained paid service. This is the standard you should hold a subscription to.
• 70–95% — acceptable for a free list, mediocre for a paid one.
• Under 70% — normal for community playlists scraped from forums; a red flag if you’re paying for it.

Why playlists rot

Free-to-air streams are published by broadcasters and volunteers who change addresses, restructure their CDNs or simply stop. Nobody notifies the playlist authors, so links silently die. That is precisely why our own channel directory re-verifies every stream on a six-hour cycle and drops anything that stops responding.

A paid provider has no such excuse. If a subscription you pay for scores badly here, you’re funding a list nobody maintains. Our troubleshooting guide covers how to tell a provider fault from a setup fault.