Support for hotstar.com

[shirishag75]

Hi all,

Would be nice if there was a way to support for hotstar.com . It is a streaming service just like youtube.com for Asian Sub-continent and is part of Star Network.

[jaimeMF]

Post an example url.

[shirishag75]

Here you go -

http://www.hotstar.com/#!/sumit-sambhal-lega-5067/when-sumit-first-met-maya-1000077191-e

This is from the comedy series sumit sambhal lega. I needed to register to the site to extract the URL. There are many hindi syndicated shows out there so would be useful to one and all.

It supports only flv (flash) plugin only.

[azadi]

Just to clarify: one doesn't need to register on the site to extract the URL. (Confirmed this before posting the comment.)

[siddht4]

yes its possible as the following code needs to be parsed

The code to link to video :
code.txt

object id="AVSFlashPlayer" name="AVSFlashPlayer" align="middle" width="952" height="536" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"
data="player/AVSFlashPlayer.swf?release=2.3.73d3b1e52c69806436dfcbed4a814522e6b8f903_25_Nov_v4"

param name="quality" value="high"

for which a web fetch request ,with the link grabber is required , we also need to check for the param value for the quality to be high as the site fetches data differently for different platforms , devices etc (confirmed by changing the useragent, used different browser for android device in android , also processed the packet data received by the hotstar app for android (used wireshark ,Pc as Acess point)) . Will start to work on the code asap.

[siddht4]

By the way simply download the video using this code in any download manager till the codes are complete http://www.hotstar.com/player/AVSFlashPlayer.swf?release=2.3.73d3b1e52c69806436dfcbed4a814522e6b8f903_25_Nov_v4

[shirishag75]

That doesn't work, or at least trying wget doesn't get me anywhere :-

    [$] wget http://www.hotstar.com/player/AVSFlashPlayer.swf\?release\=2.3.73d3b1e52c69806436dfcbed4a814522e6b8f903_25_Nov_v4          
--2015-12-25 01:06:04--  http://www.hotstar.com/player/AVSFlashPlayer.swf?release=2.3.73d3b1e52c69806436dfcbed4a814522e6b8f903_25_Nov_v4
Resolving www.hotstar.com (www.hotstar.com)... 117.239.240.8, 117.239.240.50
Connecting to www.hotstar.com (www.hotstar.com)|117.239.240.8|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 435535 (425K) [application/x-shockwave-flash]
Saving to: ‘AVSFlashPlayer.swf?release=2.3.73d3b1e52c69806436dfcbed4a814522e6b8f903_25_Nov_v4’

AVSFlashPlayer.swf?release=2.3.73d3 100%[===================================================================>] 425.33K   176KB/s    in 2.4s    

2015-12-25 01:06:07 (176 KB/s) - ‘AVSFlashPlayer.swf?release=2.3.73d3b1e52c69806436dfcbed4a814522e6b8f903_25_Nov_v4’ saved [435535/435535]

[remitamine]

i added an initial support for this site, it will take effect in the next version.
i tested it only with few videos(most of the content is geo restricted).