How to get the url of currently playing video in UIWebview - ios

Question

Is there any way to get the link of currently playing video.I am loading m.youtube.com .For some videos it is not even entering the delegates.I tried using a NStimer as well.But for some videos it is not the clicked url

Answer 1

There is a hacky way of doing it by listening for the AVPlayerItemBecameCurrentNotification notification. This notification is fired when a UIWebView shows the media player, and it sends an AVPlayerItem as the notification's object.
For example:
[[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] addObserver:self
selector:#selector(playerItemBecameCurrent:)
name:#"AVPlayerItemBecameCurrentNotification"
object:nil];
-(void)playerItemBecameCurrent:(NSNotification*)notification {
AVPlayerItem *playerItem = [notification object];
if(playerItem == nil) return;
// Break down the AVPlayerItem to get to the path
AVURLAsset *asset = (AVURLAsset*)[playerItem asset];
NSURL *url = [asset URL];
NSString *path = [url absoluteString];
}
This works for any video (and audio). However, I noticed you mentioned YouTube - it's worth pointing out Apple WILL reject your app if it has the ability to download YouTube videos AT ALL, because it's against YouTube's Terms of Service.

Answer 2

This one is for swift version:
//Add NSNotificationcenter for current playing song
override func viewDidAppear(_ animated: Bool) {
NotificationCenter.default.addObserver(self, selector:#selector(playerItemBecameCurrent), name:NSNotification.Name(rawValue: "AVPlayerItemBecameCurrentNotification"), object:nil)
}
//Fetch path from notificationcenter
#objc func playerItemBecameCurrent(notification:NSNotification){
let playerItem:AVPlayerItem = notification.object as! AVPlayerItem
let asset:AVURLAsset=playerItem.asset as! AVURLAsset
let url = asset.url
let path = url.absoluteString
print(path)
}