Question

I’m trying to parse a direct link out of a javascript function within a page. I’m able to parse the html info I need, but am stumped on the javascript part. Is this something that is achievable with php and possibly regex?

function videoPoster() {
    document.getElementById("html5_vid").innerHTML = 
        "<video x-webkit-airplay='allow' id='html5_video' style='margin-top:" 
        + style_padding 
        + "px;' width='400' preload='auto' height='325' controls onerror='cantPlayVideo()' " 
        + "<source src='http://video-website.com/videos/videoname.mp4' type='video/mp4'>";
}

What I need to pull out is the link “http://video-website.com/videos/videoname.mp4”. Any help or pointers would be greatly appreciated!

Answer 1

/http://.*\.mp4/ will give you all characters between http:// and .mp4, inclusive.

See it in action.

If you need the session id, use something like /http://.*\.mp4?sessionid=\d+/