Help capturing from Fox.com.

[ehurdler]

Originally Posted by cabulo

Solution that cannot be more straightforward, simply cut the commercial off the saved video with ffmpeg.

That wouldn't do it. There are commercials through-out, not just at beginning. Yelloworanges solution works perfectly.

[ehurdler]

Originally Posted by Yelloworanges

Now that you can do it, how would you have explained it better? This might help others so they don't have to deal with my lousy unclear instructions.

OK, Deal. Yelloworanges, I did a test and wrote up this little set of instructions for myself, so as you suggested I will post them here.

Open Browser (I’m using Firefox) Load up Tools->Web Developer->Web Console.
Put “theplatform” (without quotes) in the search box.
Open Fox video in question. I am using The Orville s01e04:

https://www.fox.com/watch/37b7c7ad4524caaa6218df213fe3119d/

Now the web console will give a result, in my example:

GET XHR https://link.theplatform.com/s/fox-dcg/media/XG9mfW7uoeKV

Expand this and you need to copy the full long “Location” url, the .json url.

https://content.uplynk.com/preplay/1974dbc0204741908baa92c3058fd9b8.json?v=2&rays=gkjihfedcb&ad=fw_prod&ad.csid=app.dcg-foxnow%2Fweb%2Ffox&ad.kv=fnl-affiliate,,fs-affiliate,,_fw_ae,nomvpd,_fw_did_idfa,,_fw_did_google_advertising_id,,_fw_did_android_id,,_fw_did,,_fw_nielsen_app_id,,_fw_vcid2,116450:463095-1506704124-64.121.15.7,aap_truex,true,adPackage,dai&expand=&tc=1&exp=1506704364&rn=932868&ct=a&cid=1974dbc0204741908baa92c3058fd9b8&sig=e05ff8d0f91a582f647d3ceb3f202343aad0b47ce11298f857428c70cf952e2a

Paste into Browser. Will load JSON Data in Firefox’s window. Copy the “playURL” url.

https://content-ausw2.uplynk.com/preplay2/1974dbc0204741908baa92c3058fd9b8/33e90a22fc6cfb1da5deda8abc584627/3JBHmgEmciqedx99zOZxbh6muDTYbpSQ59KZMqrwyIl4.m3u8?pbs=545529d1a7ed4e5eb1e032d042f949a0

Parse it to remove “/preplay2” as well as everything before .m3u8 but not as far as the first section of numbers. So original link edited down will look like:

https://content-ausw2.uplynk.com/1974dbc0204741908baa92c3058fd9b8.m3u8?pbs=545529d1a7ed4e5eb1e032d042f949a0

Take this url and run it with Livestreamer, and you will get the full Video, no Commercials at the beginning or through-out the video at all.

livestreamer "hlsvariant://https://content-ausw2.uplynk.com/1974dbc0204741908baa92c3058fd9b8.m3u8?pbs=545529d1a7ed4e5eb1e032d042f949a0" 720p -o "04 The Orville.mp4"

If my process is too long, or other plugins, or anything can be used to simplify the process.....Please let me know.

Thanks Again!

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[brunomoreno71]

https://feed.theplatform.com/f/fox.com/fullepisodes

https://link.theplatform.com/s/fox-m...allback=jquery

ffmpeg -i "https://fbchdvod-f.akamaihd.net/i/video/Fox_Networks_Group_-_FOX_Broadcasting/313/903/OrvilleThe_1LAB03_104831392387,7_mp4_video_1280x72 0_4500000_primary_audio_10,6_mp4_video_1280x720_34 00000_primary_audio_9,5_mp4_video_1280x720_2500000 _primary_audio_8,4_mp4_video_1280x720_1800000_prim ary_audio_7,3_mp4_video_1024x576_1300000_primary_a udio_6,2_mp4_video_640x360_800000_primary_audio_5, 1_mp4_video_480x270_500000_primary_audio_4,0_mp4_v ideo_480x270_300000_primary_audio_3,8_mp4_video_40 0x0_150000_primary_audio_1,8_mp4_video_400x0_15000 0_primary_audio_1,.mp4.csmil/master.m3u8?__b__=300&b=100-&hdnea=st=1506930229~exp=1506930349~acl=/i/video/Fox_Networks_Group_-_FOX_Broadcasting/313/903/OrvilleThe_1LAB03_104831392387*~id=c86a2bd5-8ab2-46d0-a1f7-289237e87d3b~hmac=fa843fa2d98d4602d83d40d06d3d75ad 71c5b12985a425bdc9638eb77727aeab" -c copy mpegts.ts

[Yelloworanges]

Originally Posted by brunomoreno71

Interesting. It seems that the legacy sources "feed.theplatform.com/f/fox.com" and "link.theplatform.com/s/fox-mobile" are still active, at least for the mobile platform(s).

While the desktop platform has transisitioned to "link.theplatform.com/s/fox-dcg".

The legacy system might be easier to download than the new uplink system, although the old system doesn't have 1080p. The question is whether the legacy system will be ongoing for the mobile platform(s).

[ehurdler]

Thank you. This is awesome! But it seems that the videos you would have to login to a cable company login with do not work. Only works for older, or free access videos. Is this kind of feed setup available for other networks? NBC, ABC, CBS for example by chance?

[Yelloworanges]

the auth ones will work if the signature is included with the request.