So my eldest son really, REALLY, wanted me to get the Transformers Combiner Wars Trilogy onto the Apple TV so he could watch it at home. I knew that it was available for streaming on Rooster Teeth. So here was the challenge, would I be able to get a copy of the video using only my iPad? Answer: Ahhhhh yeah.
First things first, after going to the page I needed to get the URL of the video stream. Safari for iOS won't do that for me, but I was able to use MIHTool as a developer browser for iOS to pull down the rendered HTML source.
I pulled the HTML source over to Writemator so I could full text search through for the stream to find the m3u8 URL in the source. I fired up iSH and installed youtube-dl. Sure enough, I got pull down the source from youtube-dl.
After it downloaded, I was able to use the Files app with FileBrowser to toss it over onto the Drobo via SMB and finally using Screens back to my macOS server I added the file into iTunes.
BAM!
