GetLiveChannelUrl

Description

Returns the URL for a given live channel (and a streaming type and quality parameters)

This method has been modified to include a new input parameter DeviceType (optional, default = null) to be able to filter out by device type the different urls available for a Live channel.

Parameters

• token (String, required)

A valid token for identifying the API session context and logged user.

• liveChannelId (int, required)

Live Channel ID

• streamingType (StreamingType, required)

Requested Streaming Type

• quality (Quality, required)

Requested quality

• includeExternal (bool, optional)

Set if API should consider external contents.

• deviceType (DeviceType, optional)

Device Type

Returns

Returns a JSON object including the live channel URL as a String.

Example:

{

"Content": "http://www.telefonica.com...."

}

Exceptions

• InvalidChannelException: If the Channel Id provided doesn't exist.
• MovieNotPlayableByDeviceTypeException: If the content is not playable by the user device.
• LiveChannelNotPurchasedException: If the live channel is not purchased by user.

Caching

This method is cached.

Known issues

None

Version history

API Version Number	Change description	Changes author
1.0	Initial method design	Harley Cabral
3.0	Added parameter: includeExternal (true/false) - Default is FALSE. deviceType (optional: default value: null)	Ricardo Calvo

See also

• LiveChannel object type
• StreamingType type
• Quality type
• Epg Service methods