# Identification of stream name for hls and rtmp live streaming

**URL:** <https://community.wowza.com/t/identification-of-stream-name-for-hls-and-rtmp-live-streaming/45085>\
**Category:** Wowza Developer Dojo\
**Tags:** wowza-streaming-server-java-api\
**Created:** [May 16, 2015, 6:22pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/identification-of-stream-name-for-hls-and-rtmp-live-streaming/45085 "2015-05-16T18:22:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![Mohit\_Shakya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Mohit\_Shakya](https://community.wowza.com/u/Mohit_Shakya)\
**Post date:** [May 16, 2015, 6:22pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/identification-of-stream-name-for-hls-and-rtmp-live-streaming/45085/1 "2015-05-16T18:22:01Z")

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Hi,

I am working on wowza module to get various information about live streaming. but i am not able to find the stream name in case of live streaming for hls and rtmp, the streamType in wowza api for this stream is ‘live’. could you help me on this?

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**Author:** ![Roger\_Littin1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c89c15/32.png) [@Roger\_Littin1](https://community.wowza.com/u/Roger_Littin1)\
**Post date:** [May 19, 2015, 1:53pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/identification-of-stream-name-for-hls-and-rtmp-live-streaming/45085/2 "2015-05-19T13:53:22Z")

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Use **stream.getName();** to get the stream name. The name may not be available when the stream is first created.

Roger.