Get Manifest file for JW Live Stream

Ken — Jul 24, 2017 03:19PM EDT

Hello,
is there a way to get the manifest file for a jw live stream. I tried looking at http://content.jwplatform.com/manifests/[myvideoid].m3u8?[mytoken] but I get a 404

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Alex

JW Player Support Agent

Jul 25, 2017 02:53PM EDT 0 rated :

Hi there,

Are you referring to a stream that would currently be live or one that has been ended and archived?

Please let me know. Thank you.

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a...

User

Jul 27, 2017 07:48AM EDT 0 rated :

me too have the same problem . how i can get the manifest URL for a live stream ?

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Alex

JW Player Support Agent

Jul 27, 2017 10:58AM EDT 0 rated :

Same thing. Are you referring to a JW Live stream that would currently be live or one that had been ended and archived?

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a...

User

Jul 27, 2017 11:31AM EDT 0 rated :

currently Live stream

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Alex

JW Player Support Agent

Jul 27, 2017 11:41AM EDT 0 rated :

Hi there,

We do not currently have an officially supported method for obtaining the stream’s URL for a currently active JW Live stream, but there is a workaround.

However, it is important to remember that this is not officially supported and should not be relied upon in production environments as the behavior may changed without any notice.

The only officially supported way of embedding a JW Live stream is through the Embed button on the dashboard. However, there is an endpoint that publishers can make a call to which will return both the live stream’s URL and the status.

http://livestream.services.cdn.jwplatform.com/events/STREAM_KEY?attributes=status,live_url

Step 1: On the live stream’s detail page, retrieve the key from the page’s URL. For example, if you’re on a page with the URL of https://dashboard.jwplayer.com/#/content/live/detail?key=mEdIaId1&property=a1b234c-56d7-8ef9-g10h-1i2jk34, the live stream’s key would be mEdIaId1.

Step 2: cURL the above endpoint URL from above with the key of the stream inserted where STREAM_KEY is in the example. Using the key example from the first step, the call would look like this.

curl http://livestream.services.cdn.jwplatform.com/events/mEdIaId1?attributes=status,live_url

It should return a result that looks like this:

{
  "id": "ge8TynwS", 
  "live_url": "//wowzaprod111-i.akamaihd.net/hls/live/261914/dee67649/playlist.m3u8", 
  "status": "live"
}

The live_url can then be embedded in the player as long as the stream is live.

Thank you.

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a...

User

Jul 27, 2017 12:33PM EDT 0 rated :

the URL i can get does not include any key .

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Alex

JW Player Support Agent

Jul 27, 2017 03:57PM EDT 0 rated :

I just created a new live stream on my account and the URL of the page where I would set the title and description for the stream was as follows:

https://dashboard.jwplayer.com/#/content/live/detail?key=eNwdIft1&property=<<property id for my account>>

In this example, eNwdIft1 would be the Media ID I would use.

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a...

User

Jul 28, 2017 09:57AM EDT 0 rated :

what I'm getting is something like blob:https://login.xxxxx.tv/xxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx

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Alex

JW Player Support Agent

Jul 28, 2017 01:47PM EDT 0 rated :

Are you looking at the same page I am in this screenshot?

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a...

User

Jul 28, 2017 02:20PM EDT 0 rated :

No, i'm talking about a URL of a JW Video inside a web page

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Alex

JW Player Support Agent

Jul 28, 2017 02:23PM EDT 0 rated :

You’re looking to get the URL of the live stream, correct? If so, I posted the instructions on how to do that earlier in this post.

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