find hidden URL for streaming radio

Question

I would like to find a utility that can find the hidden URL to eg this streaming radio

so I can use that in mocp (music on console player). URLsnooper is there for windows, but I can't find an alternative for Linux.

Answer 1

This playlist is readable with any old text-editor, which will reveal the URL?

[playlist]
numberofentries=1
File1=http://91.121.91.110:4000
Title1=(#1 - 26/150) M2 CALIENTE : ONLY LATIN MUSIC - Live From Paris France - www.m2radio.fr
Length1=-1
Version=2

So unless you mean something else entirely, the url you are looking for is http://91.121.91.110:4000 ?

In that case the utility is anything that can read txt files (Vim, gedit, less, more, cat etc :) )

For clarity, this is what I did:

1. go to that url in my browser, and save it as a file
   
   • alternatively you could use "wget" in the commandline to download it.
   • the object of this step is to get that file (called tinein-station.pls) on your computer
2. Open the file with any program that you would use to read .txt files. This can be LibreOffice, MS-Word, Gedit, anything you wish.
   
   • you could even rename the file as playlist.txt and let nautilus figure out what to use :)
3. You see above contents, and there is the hidde url (3rd line)

This is the failsave commandline version:

1. open a terminal (ctrl-alt T, or find it in the menu)

2. type wget http://yp.shoutcast.com/sbin/tunein-station.pls?id=1280625

   • you will see something ending like

     2012-11-12 16:18:47 (13.5 MB/s) - `tunein-station.pls?id=1280625' saved [176/176]
     

3. type cat tunein-station.pls\?id\=1280625
   • you will see the contents as described above :)