[vlc-commits] dailymotion.lua: update to website changes

[Pierre Ynard]

vlc | branch: master | Pierre Ynard <linkfanel at yahoo.fr> | Sun Jan 27 00:26:31 2019 +0100| [af93e96577928df2a99dc555c60d86b49940608b] | committer: Pierre Ynard

dailymotion.lua: update to website changes

Video metadata is now available from a separate URL

> http://git.videolan.org/gitweb.cgi/vlc.git/?a=commit;h=af93e96577928df2a99dc555c60d86b49940608b
---

 share/lua/playlist/dailymotion.lua | 25 ++++++++++++++++++-------
 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/share/lua/playlist/dailymotion.lua b/share/lua/playlist/dailymotion.lua
index 2806989989..c9f58ec0d0 100644
--- a/share/lua/playlist/dailymotion.lua
+++ b/share/lua/playlist/dailymotion.lua
@@ -1,10 +1,8 @@
 --[[
-    Translate Daily Motion video webpages URLs to the corresponding
-    FLV URL.
+    Translate Dailymotion video webpages URLs to corresponding
+    video stream URLs.
 
- $Id$
-
- Copyright © 2007-2016 the VideoLAN team
+ Copyright © 2007-2019 the VideoLAN team
 
  This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
  it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
@@ -47,10 +45,23 @@ function parse()
 		if string.match( line, "<meta property=\"og:image\"" ) then
 			arturl = string.match( line, "content=\"(.-)\"" )
 		end
+    end
+
+    local video_id = string.match( vlc.path, "^www%.dailymotion%.com/video/([^/?#]+)" )
+    if video_id then
+        local metadata = vlc.stream( vlc.access.."://www.dailymotion.com/player/metadata/video/"..video_id )
+        if metadata then
+            local line = metadata:readline() -- data is on one line only
 
-        if string.match( line, "var __PLAYER_CONFIG__ = {" ) then
+            -- TODO: fetch "title" and resolve \u escape sequences
+            -- FIXME: use "screenname" instead and resolve \u escape sequences
             artist = string.match( line, '"username":"([^"]+)"' )
 
+            local poster = string.match( line, '"poster_url":"([^"]+)"' )
+            if poster then
+                arturl = string.gsub( poster, "\\/", "/")
+            end
+
             local streams = string.match( line, "\"qualities\":{(.-%])}" )
             if streams then
                 local prefres = vlc.var.inherit(nil, "preferred-resolution")
@@ -81,7 +92,7 @@ function parse()
     end
 
     if not path then
-        vlc.msg.err("Couldn't extract the video URL from dailymotion")
+        vlc.msg.err("Couldn't extract dailymotion video URL, please check for updates to this script")
         return { }
     end