How to get direct link of remote video from embedded url within a url in Android using JSoup?

Question

I had asked the question previously about how to retrieve the embedded url for a video file and have successfully done so. Now I have a different issue. The json response for a

Answer 1

This is how you can GET the file:

(Notice: the Extraction part only works with current html of the site and if that changes, it may not work correctly!)

String url = "https://www.wunderground.com/webcams/cadot1/902/video.html";
int timeout = 100 * 1000;

// Extract video URL
Document doc = Jsoup.connect(url).timeout(timeout).get();
Element script = doc.getElementById("inner-content")
        .getElementsByTag("script").last();
String content = script.data();
int indexOfUrl = content.indexOf("url");
int indexOfComma = content.indexOf(',', indexOfUrl);
String videoUrl = "https:" + content.substring(indexOfUrl + 6, indexOfComma - 1);
System.out.println(videoUrl);

[Output: https://icons.wunderground.com/webcamcurrent/c/a/cadot1/902/current.mp4?e=1481246112]

Now you can get the file by specifying .ignoreContentType(true) in order to avoid org.jsoup.UnsupportedMimeTypeException and .maxBodySize(0) to remove the limit on file size.

// Get video file
byte[] video = Jsoup.connect(videoUrl)
        .ignoreContentType(true).timeout(timeout).maxBodySize(0)
        .execute().bodyAsBytes();

I don't know if you can play it in Android or not but I think you can save it using org.apache.commons.io.FileUtils (I tested it in Java SE but not Android development environment.)

// Save video file
org.apache.commons.io.FileUtils.writeByteArrayToFile(new File("test.mp4"), video);