Video.get_url() gives you an url to an m3u8 playlist but not to the video.

[exislow]

According to the description of Video.get_url() I would actually expect the direct video url according to my set video_quality:

python-tidal/tidalapi/media.py

Lines 841 to 846 in 288fc1e

	def get_url(self) -> str:
	"""Retrieves the URL for a video.
	:return: A `str` object containing the direct video URL
	:raises: A :class:`exceptions.URLNotAvailable` if no URL is available for this video
	"""

Retrieves the URL for a video.

:return: A `str` object containing the direct video URL

But instead this method return a link to an m3u8 playlist, where I need to pick the direct video url for my desired quality by myself. What am I doing wrong? Or is the description of the method not correct?

[tehkillerbee]

This is how the tidal api works when requested the (stream) url through the api. So the description is slightly vague but correct.

You are presented with an url to the HLS (m3u8) playlist/index which is the (usual) way to handle video steams, the other being MPD-Dash.

I suspect Mpd manifest may also be available (similar to track stream) but I have not looked into it.

[exislow]

What do you think about this:

• Let's correct the method comment to be more precise.
• Have a look at the MPD option in the next step?

[tehkillerbee]

@exislow Sounds good to me. We should at least make it clear that the URL presented is a HLS stream playlist (m3u8) if this is currently the case. Also we should probably make sure that the quality selection logic actually works as expected, especially if multiple qualities are presented in this HLS stream.

I do believe the video class need a bit of a look over anyways.