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**This addon is under development and not all may work correctly.**

## Important notes: ##
- Login by entering username and password is not possible yet. It's necessary to get the cookie from a web browser. You'll find below some methods to do it.
- Login by entering username and password is not possible yet. It's necessary to get a cookie from a web browser. You'll find below some methods to do it.
- Due to the DRM this platform use, playback only works on Android devices.

My intention was to develop an addon for Skyshowtime, but since I don't know how to generate the header signatures and Peacock uses the same API (and in this case the key for the header signatures is known), I ended up creating an addon for Peacock. I'm not even subscribed to Peacock, I created an account and fortunately they allow to play some videos without a subscription.

## Select the streaming service
Open the settings of the addon and select whether to use PeacockTV or SkyShowtime.

## How to get the cookie ##
This application for Android can extract automatically the cookie:
https://github.com/Paco8/SkyExtractCookieAndroid
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There's also available a version for PC:
There's also a similar application for PC:
https://github.com/Paco8/SkyExtractCookie

## How to get the cookie manually
If the above tool doesn't work for you, you can try to get it manually:
If the above tools don't work for you, you can try to get it manually:
- In Chrome open the development tools (Ctrl + Shift + I).
- Select the **Network** tab.
- In the field in the top left (the filter) type `watch/home`.
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