Culling a live stream link ?

[Rob Landry]

A few months back, I was tasked with building an aircheck machine for a 
client that could automatically record four competitors' stations audio 
from thair Internet streams. I quickly discovered that it was not easy to 
find a URL buried in a Listen Live link on a Web site.

What you need to do is use "Developer Tools" from "More Tools" in the menu 
on the far right in Google Chrome. It will show you all the links that are 
triggered by the Listen Live button. Look for something ending in ".m3u8".

Instead of the continuous stream typical of a link ending in .mp3, you'll 
see a succession of small files ending in .m3u8. They will be parts of 
an HLS stream that is typically AAC (.m4a) format.

There are YouTube videos that explain this in greater detail.


Rob

On Tue, 20 Dec 2022, Shawn Mamros wrote:

> They have online listening options for WERS on their website:
> https://wers.org/listen/listening-options/
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> Scroll to the bottom, and you'll see options specific to Standing Room Only.
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> -Shawn
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> From: Boston-Radio-Interest <boston-radio-interest-bounces@lists.BostonRadio.org> on behalf of Ron <obrienron2@gmail.com>
> Sent: Monday, December 19, 2022 9:05 AM
> To: 'bri' <BRI@bostonradio.org>
> Subject: Culling a live stream link ?
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> Good Day!
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> Do any of the wise people in this group know how to extract the streaming URL for WERS’ 24/7 Standing Room Only feed?
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> Some kind of an .mp3, .asx, or .mu3 type of thing?
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> I want to put the streaming link into my WiFi radio…and can’t seem to cull it from this page.
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> https://standingroom.org/
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> I was thinking of writing to the Engineer there but don’t know who that is.
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> Anyone?  Buehler?  😉
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