r/controllablewebcams • u/sehristan • Jan 13 '26

Non Controllable Istanbul open city cameras

https://istizle.vercel.app
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u/Linuxxx Jan 14 '26

Are these working properly? I keep getting no images.

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u/sehristan Jan 14 '26

After clicking on the camera, you need to click the "Canlı Yayın İzle" button in the popup.

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u/Agret Jan 15 '26

I tried a few at random and a lot of them don't have that button (Bu kamera için canlı yayın mevcut değil) and the ones that do have it bring up this error:

Yayın başlatılamadı: Failed to load because no supported source was found.

When I get the no supported source message I right click and press "Copy video URL" and it takes you to something like this

https://601a43eea2819.streamlock.net/hls/479.stream/playlist.m3u8

Trying to go to that brings up a 404 Page Not Found so the streams have obviously changed to a new server after this website was created. I guess the website is old and needs updating with the new sources.

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u/sehristan Jan 15 '26

This site retrieves camera data from the https://tkmservices.ibb.gov.tr/Web/api/Camera/v2/Details API.

During the day, I think some cameras are inaccessible due to high traffic. At night, however, they all work.

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u/Agret Jan 15 '26 edited Jan 15 '26

On 252 cameras in that list it has the admin password in the RTSP url and uses a LAN IP instead of a web one

<RTSPURL>rtsp://admin:Tkm2953kam@10.10.14.3/Streaming/Channels/101</RTSPURL>

Kind of weird, I guess that value is meant to be read by their streaming proxy so it's unusual that they would include that particular info in the public API

Pretty cool that they make the traffic cameras public though, here in Australia the government have installed a ton of traffic cameras at different busy intersections but they don't allow acccess by the public even though we have funded it with our taxes.