How to find m3u8 link passing a link to a website as a parameter in a java program?

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Hi guys

I need to create a simple java program that allows me to get a m3u8 link contained in the website passed as a parameter.
I have to retrieve the http header of the website ?, how can I do?

google dev tools (f12)
https://i.imgur.com/4xgchaw.png[^]

What I have tried:

i tried to use the getHeaderFields() method but it didn't work

Posted 3-Aug-19 2:45am

Dimbu9

Updated 3-Aug-19 4:34am

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Richard MacCutchan 3-Aug-19 9:39am

For future reference, stating, "it didn't work", provides no useful information. If you want help with your problems then please provide full details: relevant code, error messages, what you expect against what actually happens, etc.

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Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan · Answer 1 · 2019-08-03T03:24:00

Since you want to parse an HTML document and read its contents, there are two ways. First of them (the easy way) would be to use an HTML parser and then read the header values one by one. I have not heard of any in Java but with C# we had HtmlAgilityPack[^]; which in Java is somewhere to be like JTidy[^].

Second way is by using the Java APIs, which as per your statement you say,

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i tried to use the getHeaderFields() method but it didn't work

Luckily, for us, here is a thread on SO where the OP said the same thing that getHeaderFields() does not work for them, so they were provided with a solution for that, please see that thread. It takes more than just an extra code line or a rewrite, that is why I am attaching the link to the thread for you to read and go through, java - Getting raw HTTP response headers - Stack Overflow[^]