# Play "source:blob" live online video with Processing

**URL:** https://discourse.processing.org/t/play-source-blob-live-online-video-with-processing/36424
**Category:** Libraries
**Created:** [April 18, 2022, 7:23pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/play-source-blob-live-online-video-with-processing/36424 "2022-04-18T19:23:38Z")
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#### Post date: [April 18, 2022, 7:23pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/play-source-blob-live-online-video-with-processing/36424/1 "2022-04-18T19:23:38Z")

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Hi! I’m trying to play live traffic webcam online video in order to analize it in real time with processing and opencv.  
The main problem I found is getting access to the video itself, while street web sources go changing each minutes and are managed through a blob node in the DOM.  
I found this three years old thread very clarifying, but only until a certain point: https://discourse.processing.org/t/importing-live-internet-video-in-processing/8218/18  
The .m3u8 video that is used by this page is only available from the “network” tab and I don’t realize how to inspect it with processing.  
In other pages, where the source is not .m3u8 but .mp4 the problem remains there: the video itself is not in the DOM, so loadStrings(“url”) doesn’t seem to work.  
Maybe I’m getting confused in some basic point and I can get the url of the video through loadstrings() and a regex search, but while the real video source is not there, I cannot imagine how to do it.  
Any simple clue would be very greatly welcome. Thanks a lot.