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download videos (feddit.it)

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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[-] Hexagon@feddit.it 15 points 1 year ago

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

[-] Black_Gulaman@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago

Do you have tricks for mobile browsers?

[-] Hexagon@feddit.it 2 points 1 year ago

Not really, I prefer to do this kind of stuff on a desktop. Also, I don't think mobile browsers have good developer tools to use for this purpose

[-] Black_Gulaman@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago

Ah tough luck. I might have to wait for FF to go through with their addons update in mobile browser.

[-] Fleppensteijn@feddit.nl 10 points 1 year ago

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)
[-] heartlessevil@lemmy.one 3 points 1 year ago

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

[-] TimeMuncher2@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago

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@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 year ago

Its grabber tool

[-] Azzu@lemm.ee 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.

[-] aqua@slrpnk.net 5 points 1 year ago

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

[-] Fredsshilksirt@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

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

[-] wviana@lemmy.eco.br 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.

[-] HeavyRust@lemm.ee 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.

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