Hello! I'd like to write a script to download videos from streamingcommunity.estate from a given video URL, and to do this I need the m3u8 file url. Currently I manually go to the network tab to search for it, but I'd like the script to do this automatically. Do you know of a way to achieve this? Bash or Python if possible, otherwise any other method will do fine. Thanks in advance!
hi, sorry for the late reply! I finally wrote this nodejs script:
const puppeteer = require('puppeteer');
// This is where we'll put the code to get around the tests.
function findPlaylistUrl(networkUrls) {
for (const url of networkUrls) {
if (url.startsWith('https://vixcloud.co/playlist')) {
return url;
}
}
return ''; // Return an empty string if no matching URL is found
}
(async () => {
// Check if URL argument is provided
if (process.argv.length <= 2) {
console.error('Usage: node get_network_urls.js ');
process.exit(1);
}
const url = process.argv[2];
// Launch a headless browser
const browser = await puppeteer.launch({ headless: 'true' });
const page = await browser.newPage();
// Enable request interception
await page.setRequestInterception(true);
// Capture network requests
const networkUrls = [];
page.on('request', (request) => {
networkUrls.push(request.url());
request.continue();
});
// Navigate to the URL
await page.goto(url);
// Wait for a while to capture network requests (adjust as needed)
await page.waitForTimeout(5000);
// Print the captured network URLs
console.log(findPlaylistUrl(networkUrls));
// Close the browser
await browser.close();
})();
the first argument passed to the script is the url of the webpage. The script uses the puppeteer module to "fake" a browser, in order to receive all the network calls and so on, and then will search through them for the m3u8 playlist. It is very specific and only works on this website, but it can be easily adapted for other websites as well
Thanks heaps for reply. Legend. After using chatgpt and bingchat I got the script cleaned up and working but unfortunately no output. 😥 I dont need the content, I just like to defeat these websites. Oh well. Dont want to bother you. My command was "node your-script.js https://streamingcommunity.express/watch/3330"
Thanks for reply, appreciate it. The thing is when i try your code it errors out. So I had to use bingchat or chatgpt to clean it up. Any chance you could upload your file somewhere please?