[vlc-commits] soundcloud.lua: don't treat JavaScript assets as line-based

[Pierre Ynard]

vlc | branch: master | Pierre Ynard <linkfanel at yahoo.fr> | Sun Mar  7 00:44:41 2021 +0100| [302d55967b127a3519b714f8cdabd0257fbb3b45] | committer: Pierre Ynard

soundcloud.lua: don't treat JavaScript assets as line-based

Following changes in the SoundCloud JavaScript web assets, the API
magic is only found anymore in assets with lines exceeding the VLC API
line-length limit of 200 kB, making it impossible to extract this way
and causing playback failure.

These JavaScript assets are minified into one-liners, so it makes no
sense anyway to attempt to read and parse them line by line. Instead,
this now reads up to 4 MB of text from them (the relevant asset
currently weighs 1 MB). This way is arguably better and also more
efficient to begin with.

Refs #24957
Fixes #25508

> http://git.videolan.org/gitweb.cgi/vlc.git/?a=commit;h=302d55967b127a3519b714f8cdabd0257fbb3b45
---

 share/lua/playlist/soundcloud.lua | 22 +++++++++++-----------
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

diff --git a/share/lua/playlist/soundcloud.lua b/share/lua/playlist/soundcloud.lua
index 3860837fcf..b1d6dcec20 100644
--- a/share/lua/playlist/soundcloud.lua
+++ b/share/lua/playlist/soundcloud.lua
@@ -45,18 +45,18 @@ function extract_magic( url )
         return nil
     end
 
-    while true do
-        local line = s:readline()
-        if not line then break end
+    local line = s:read( 4096*1024 )
+    if not line then
+        return nil
+    end
 
-        -- The API magic appears under a similar form several times
-        -- in one of the javascript assets
-        -- {client_id:"z21TN9SfM0GjGteSzk4ViM1KEwMRNWZF"}
-        local client_id = string.match( line, '[{,]client_id:"(%w+)"[},]' )
-        if client_id then
-            vlc.msg.dbg( "Found soundcloud API magic" )
-            return client_id
-        end
+    -- The API magic appears under a similar form several times
+    -- in one of the javascript assets
+    -- {client_id:"z21TN9SfM0GjGteSzk4ViM1KEwMRNWZF"}
+    local client_id = string.match( line, '[{,]client_id:"(%w+)"[},]' )
+    if client_id then
+        vlc.msg.dbg( "Found soundcloud API magic" )
+        return client_id
     end
     return nil
 end