Ability to play videos from a website

[biomedica]

Hi everybody,

There is a Portuguese news channel that has a lot of news that are always being updated. They publish the videos in mp4 format which is compatible with the box. I have tried to retrieve the source code for this script, however I was not able to get the feed. It seems there is a javascript function called feed() which points to a PHP file in the server. From my understanding that function retrieves the latest videos and presents it as a list of links. Is there a way we could extract those links into an UMSP plugin?

The website is http://i.rtp.pt. Then in order to get the videos, you have to click on the following:

Vídeos
Notícias
Últimas

After clicking on those links you will retrieve the list of the videos available.

Your help would be really appreciated.

Thanks

[Gui]

Hey all,

I'm just a beginner and probably should exist different/better approaches but this is what I've done:

I went to http://i.rtp.pt -> Videos -> Notícias -> Últimas and with Firebug for Firefox i analyzed the page and like biomedica mentioned I've found that POST listaultimos.php retrieves the latest videos.
Then I've inspected the POST parameters :
area=News (Notícias)
sk=2 (videos)
tm= (category) Recent don have category so it shows empty value

What give's me this link : http://i.rtp.pt/listaultimos.php?area=News&sk=2

After that i look after the categories:
tm=2 (Saúde) http://i.rtp.pt/listaultimos.php?area=News&sk=2&tm=2
tm=3 (Desporto) http://i.rtp.pt/listaultimos.php?area=News&sk=2&tm=3
etc...

Then i had to preg_match the desired values so i used this regex:

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'#<a.*?href\s*=\s*["\']([^"\']+)[^>]*>\s*<img.*?src\s*=\s*["\']([^"\']+)[^>]*>\s*<h6>(.*?)<\/h6>(.*?)<\/a>#s'

I had to use the "s" (enables "single-line mode") modifier to scrap it.

And then i just had to build the pulgin.
Observations:
Had to urlencode the 'id' of the cats (area=News&sk=2&tm=2)
Had to utf8_encode the titles in order to show the accentuation correctly

You can download the plugin here: http://forum.wdlxtv.com/viewtopic.php?f=53&t=6897

Sorry for my bad English.

Abraço,
Gui

[biomedica]

Wow this is awesome!!! I am going to try it tonight when I get home. Thanks for taking the time.