Extending Emby Live-TV: Adding User Identification via Custom Headers

[Sanderluc 11]

I would like to extend the Live-TV functionality within Emby to track which user is watching a live stream. I currently have a PHP script named stream.php, which is the endpoint for the M3U link that gets activated when a user initiates a Live-TV stream.

I'm interested in knowing if it's possible to extend this functionality by adding a custom header to the Live-TV stream. Specifically, I would like to include a header such as:

X-Emby-User: Sander

This would allow me to identify which user is watching the stream. I’m not sure if this is achievable through the API, but if it is, I would like to integrate this feature.

At the moment, when a Live-TV stream is opened by a user, the request headers received by stream.php include the following:

Request Headers:
Traceparent: 00-814655256f9a3f6f1d5d3addd3965386-c65971529c4e72c2-00
Referrer: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/94.0.4606.61 Safari/537.36
User-Agent: VLC/3.0.0-git LibVLC/3.0.0-git
Host: xxx.xxx.nl
Content-Length: 
Content-Type: 

Please let me know if adding a custom header for user identification is possible, with the use of the Developer API.

Thank you.

Kind regards,

Sander

[Luke 42077]

Hi, doesn't the api already have this information?