URL has a video to stream or not.

karthiksharu · 01-12-2010, 07:52 AM

Hi people,

Is there any way to check if a url points to a streaming video file or not programmatically.

For example with this url : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gfZnWVoqZ8 I should get TRUE

and with the url : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gfZnWVXXxx should return FALSE.

Program in any language will be okay but it ll be good if its Perl or PHP or Python or JAVA, JavaScript or SHELL script.

I am working on LINUX.

(note: i m not going to check with youtube's just for example's sake i ve used youtube.)

Can anyone help me with this please..

Thanks in advance.........

TB0ne · 01-13-2010, 09:03 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by karthiksharu

Hi people,
Is there any way to check if a url points to a streaming video file or not programmatically.

For example with this url : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gfZnWVoqZ8 I should get TRUE

and with the url : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gfZnWVXXxx should return FALSE.

Program in any language will be okay but it ll be good if its Perl or PHP or Python or JAVA, JavaScript or SHELL script.
I am working on LINUX.

Can anyone help me with this please..

To strictly answer your question, yes, it can be done programmaticaly.

As with most all requests like this, post what you've written so far, and where you're having a problem, and we'll be glad to help. However, I doubt anyone here is going to write programs for you.

karthiksharu · 01-13-2010, 01:09 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by TB0ne

To strictly answer your question, yes, it can be done programmaticaly.

As with most all requests like this, post what you've written so far, and where you're having a problem, and we'll be glad to help. However, I doubt anyone here is going to write programs for you.

Hi .... thanks for your response and advice. Using httpfox I figured out where the urls are being redirected. When you make a Get request to that url the response header ll tell you if its a video file or not in 'content-type' field.
and by the way it was a two line program and i ve done it.

Thanks ..........