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this post was submitted on 13 Nov 2023
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This works for so many sites. Sometimes it is worth checking the formats the ste streams, because many of us don't really need that 4K clip of a video with lossless 7.1 surround sound audio.
It also works for podcasts.
Of you are on a site that has a stream that cannot be grabbed by yt-dlp you can look for other, sometimes sketchy, tools that can get the job done.
If you like to pull your hair out a bit, you can inspect the page (not look at the source, but use the web inspector) and find a link to the streams. Occasionally you may need to download the audio and the video separately and put them together after downloading.
I need to do this regularly for colleagues.
In my experience nowadays video is often streamed with something like hls and pieced together with a javascript player. If that's the case inspecting the source won't help you much as its hundreds of 4s snippets or something like that. It could be worth a try but often times you really need a tool to do it.