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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)

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago

VideoDownloadHelper (Firefox addon) is usually quite powerful

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Yep. You might not even need an extension if it's just a html5 video.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Drm12 3 points 1 year ago

Its grabber tool

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

yt-dlp works often enough. You can specify cookies for login information as command line options, first have to login in the browser though and look for the info in the console.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I’ve had success with jdownloader or some firefox addon that grabs media in the past.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

jdownloader? works on a lot of sites. you can also use it to send credentials if that is required.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I usually try this method when there isn't something easier: https://superuser.com/a/990986

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Do you have tricks for mobile browsers?