Hi fellow people! I want to download & save a huge set of small videos (20min each) for a swimming course I paid for and they don’t let me download , and this is driving me crazy.
The videos can be accessed via browser only, and I tried tubedowoader with no success (gives an error “empty keys” while attempting to download).
What should I try?
(Android is first choice, then Linux ofc)
jdownloader? works on a lot of sites. you can also use it to send credentials if that is required.
I would find the media stream requests in inspector and build a yt-dlp command adding same headers you find there. I was able to download some coursers like this.
If none of the options others commented works, you could always resort to writing a script that screen records the videos by automating mouse clicks.
It depends on how the video is embedded and which format it is.
- You can try to open Page Info (CTRL+I) > Media tab and see if you can find the video there (Firefox).
- Sometimes you can right click and open frame in new window, which then allows you to save it (you may need to enable dom. event. contextmenu in about:config if they block right click)
- Get the VideoDownloadHelper addin (Firefox)
try 1dm app on playstore. it has a browser where you can tap a button and see the videos in the page that can be downoaded.
