how to get video id from clicking youtube search page link in a webview

Gabriel H

I have a webview in which i present youtube search page. (https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=) i want to receive the video id of the clip the user pressed. so far i have tried the following without success:

1)use of shouldOverrideUrlLoading - isnt being called when pressing on the video clip in search

public WebViewClient getWebViewClient()
{
    return new WebViewClient() {
        @Override
        public boolean shouldOverrideUrlLoading(WebView view, String url) {
            Log.d("TAG","called overide url");
            if (url.startsWith(YOUTUBE_VIDEO_URL)) {
                setVideoIdFromLink(url);

                return true;
            }
            else
            {
                Log.d("GABI","url:"+url);
            }
            return false;
        }
        /*
        public void onLoadResource (WebView view, String url){

            if(url.startsWith(YOUTUBE_VIDEO_URL)){
                setVideoIdFromLink(url);
            }
        }*/
    };
}

2)setting an onTouchListener - method always return type 0 extras null

private OnTouchListener linkClickTouch()
{
    return new OnTouchListener() {
        @Override
        public boolean onTouch(View v, MotionEvent event) {
             switch (event.getAction()) {
                case MotionEvent.ACTION_DOWN: {
                    startClickTime = Calendar.getInstance().getTimeInMillis();
                    break;
                }
                case MotionEvent.ACTION_UP: {
                    long clickDuration = Calendar.getInstance().getTimeInMillis() - startClickTime;
                    if(clickDuration < MAX_CLICK_DURATION) {
                        v.performClick();
                    }
                }
            }
            return true;
        }
        };
    }

the click action:

private OnClickListener linkClick()
    {

        return new OnClickListener()
        {
            public void onClick(View v) {


                final WebView webview = (WebView) v;
                final WebView.HitTestResult result = webview.getHitTestResult();
                Log.d("TAG", "result:"+result.getType()+"\nextras:"+
                result.getExtra());


                if (result.getType() == WebView.HitTestResult.SRC_ANCHOR_TYPE) {

                }

                if (result.getType() == WebView.HitTestResult.SRC_IMAGE_ANCHOR_TYPE) {

                }

                if (result.getType() == WebView.HitTestResult.IMAGE_TYPE) {

                }


            }
        };
    }

i know i can probably use the youtube API but i want to accomplish that without building a search activity wich will display results only to find the id, when a decent search page already exists.

Gabriel H

after many trial and error: shouldOverrideUrlLoading or onPageStarted never gets called.

you should use -

public void onLoadResource (WebView view, String url)
{
     if(url.startsWith("https://m.youtube.com/watch?"))
     {

         setVideoIdFromLink(url);
         view.stopLoading();
     }
}

public String setVideoIdFromLink(String url)
{
    //get the video id from the link
    String[] args=url.split("v=");
    String videoId=args[args.length-1];

    return videoId;
}

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