# Stream and Play just by url

**URL:** <https://community.wowza.com/t/stream-and-play-just-by-url/47600>\
**Category:** Wowza Streaming Engine\
**Tags:** server-administration\
**Created:** [October 14, 2016, 6:45am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/stream-and-play-just-by-url/47600 "2016-10-14T06:45:11Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Amir\_Hosein](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7feea3/32.png) [@Amir\_Hosein](https://community.wowza.com/u/Amir_Hosein)\
**Post date:** [October 14, 2016, 6:45am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/stream-and-play-just-by-url/47600/1 "2016-10-14T06:45:11Z")

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Hi everybody

In some platforms, I saw they stream and play just by custom url instead of regular wowza urls.

For example in Periscope you can see a url like this for player:

[https://periscope.tv/w/TOKEN](https://periscope.tv/w/TOKEN)

Instead of this:

[https://periscope.tv:1935/live/streamname/playlist.m3u8](https://periscope.tv:1935/live/streamname/playlist.m3u8)

And in Youtube you can see a url like this for streaming:

rtmp://a.rtmp.youtube.com/live

Instead of this:

rtmp://youtube.com:1835/live/streamname

How can I run this way of streaming?

Thanks

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**Author:** ![Jermaine\_Hemby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/82dd89/32.png) [@Jermaine\_Hemby](https://community.wowza.com/u/Jermaine_Hemby)\
**Post date:** [November 19, 2016, 9:45am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/stream-and-play-just-by-url/47600/2 "2016-11-19T09:45:49Z")

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Hello!

Thanks for contacting Wowza Forums!

Here is a article that can help with this [HERE](https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-get-the-streamnamealias-addon)

Regards,

Jermaine