How to extract a stream URL from a website using java?

Question

I have a website URL, when I browse it on the chrome a web page appears which has a streaming video. How can I know the stream URL of the video using java? Its format is .m3u8.By inspecting the chrome elements we can find the URL but I need to send the website URL to the server and know the stream URL.

Answer 1

if you are sending the url from browser to your controller with something like:

$.ajax({
    type:'POST',
    url: 'your/url/to/yourController',
    data:{streamUrl:getItSomehow}
})

then in the controller:

@PostMapping("yourController")
public void processUrl(HttpServletRequest request){
    String sentUrl = request.getParameter("streamUrl")
    //now you have the url and do whatever you need to do with it
}