How to detect AVplayer and get url of current video from WKWebView?

Question

I'm using below code to extract url from UIWebView: it is working fine but, this same code using for WKWebView it's not working anymore. Can anyone help me? The video playing in WKWebView is Inlineplacyback not in fullscreen.

My code is :

 NotificationCenter.default.addObserver(self, selector: #selector(self.playerItemBecameCurrent(_:)), name: NSNotification.Name("AVPlayerItemBecameCurrentNotification"), object: nil)

 @objc func playerItemBecameCurrent(_ sender : NSNotification){
    let playerItem: AVPlayerItem? = sender.object as? AVPlayerItem
    if playerItem == nil {
        print("player item nil")
        return
    }
    // Break down the AVPlayerItem to get to the path
    let asset = playerItem?.asset as? AVURLAsset
    let url: URL? = asset?.url
    let path = url?.absoluteString

    print(path!,"video url")
}

Response URL :

https://r2---sn-po4g5uxa-5hql.googlevideo.com/videoplayback?txp=5531432&sparams=clen%2Cdur%2Cei%2Cgir%2Cid%2Cinitcwndbps%2Cip%2Cipbits%2Citag%2Clmt%2Cmime%2Cmm%2Cmn%2Cms%2Cmv%2Cpcm2%2Cpl%2Cratebypass%2Crequiressl%2Csource%2Cexpire&ip=103.37.181.55&ratebypass=yes&id=o-AM9UWIaxopyYZX4gikGuswG8EMi3dhH_PPBMIqY5cbXj&expire=1554400796&c=MWEB&fvip=4&initcwndbps=481250&ipbits=0&mime=video%2Fmp4&dur=60.093&lmt=1554142002789460&key=yt6&mt=1554379078&itag=18&source=youtube&gir=yes&requiressl=yes&signature=6C68366FC249958BB8E95A5D88074FF8BCB99745.DA113E66DD0B46863BAE52DAA3CAB31FD141F0E5&clen=2708520&mm=31%2C29&mn=sn-po4g5uxa-5hql%2Csn-cvh7knek&ei=vPGlXPOWHIWD8QOO1KBo&ms=au%2Crdu&pcm2=no&pl=24&mv=m&cpn=I9d32bNmeq3kf0jn&cver=2.20190403&ptk=youtube_none&pltype=contentugc

It's video URL not Webpage URL so, please help me how to get this. Thanks.

Answer 1

This is kind of a hack, but the only way I found to accomplish this.

First set yourself as WKWebView navigation delegate:

self.webView?.navigationDelegate = self

Now listen to all navigation changes, and save the requested url:

func webView(_ webView: WKWebView, decidePolicyFor navigationAction: WKNavigationAction, decisionHandler: @escaping (WKNavigationActionPolicy) -> Void) {
        if let urlStr = navigationAction.request.url?.absoluteString {
            //Save presented URL
            //Full path can be accessed via self.webview.url
        }

        decisionHandler(.allow)
    }

Now you only need to know when does the new screen become visible, and use the URL you saved (To know the video URL of the new visible screen).

You can do this via listening to UIWindowDidBecomeVisibleNotification notification:

NotificationCenter.default.addObserver(self, selector: #selector(windowDidBecomeVisibleNotification(notif:)), name: NSNotification.Name("UIWindowDidBecomeVisibleNotification"), object: nil)

Then check if the navigation window is not your window, and that means a new screen did open:

@objc func windowDidBecomeVisibleNotification(notif: Notification) {
        if let isWindow = notif.object as? UIWindow {
            if (isWindow !== self.view.window) {
            print("New window did open, check what is the currect URL")
            }
        }
    }

Answer 2

You can try to inject JS in your WKWebView like shown here: https://paulofierro.com/blog/2015/10/12/listening-for-video-playback-within-a-wkwebview