How to download videos from sites which only allow streaming?
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There is stuff from several sites that I'd like to share, but each time fewer sites make download available. You can only stream.
Some years ago I remember I could get the video link inside the source code page and/or the inspection tab. However, the websites' structure has become more complicated now and they're better at hiding the media, so I can't find the videos anymore. How do you get the videos?
Even so, you guys upload here videos from sites whose download option has been disabled. How do you do this?
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I'm no expert at this, but I sometimes find myself in the same situation. Here's what I do: (I use Firefox on a Windows 10/64 machine; there may be similar approaches for other browsers, Win11, and/or Mac.)
1: I have a Firefox extension called "Flash and Video Download" that will often recognise a video on a page, and one click starts a download.
2. If that fails, I go to the Firefox menu Tools -> Page Info -> Media and scroll down the items listed and see if one is a video, and then click the button "save as." This often works, but if the address for the video has the world blob in it, the media is hidden in such a way that this won't work.
3. As a last resort, I use an app called "Cool Screen Recorder" that allows one to record the audio and video that's being shown on a monitor. It's from the Microsoft Store so it's not harmful. I won't do a tutorial here on how to use it, but it's fairly intuitive, and a little experimentation will be helpful. The file from torrent https://www.gaytor.rent/details.php?id=41f759ae97e2f4ed3f627acd8bc2072fc6ac2da9d31ee249 was created this way, and the results aren't bad.Good luck!
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@fredfranco Your computer needs to download the file for you to watch, so it's always possible to get it.
Yeah the basic way is right clicking on the page, going to Inspect Element, finding the video and downloading. Usually when you can do that you can use extensions as well.
But yeah, lots of websites can block that. The workaround I found is you play the video, then you click Inspect Element, go to Sources, then you browse there until you find the video, and you copy that link. Then you go to VLC, Convert/Save, Network, then you paste the link there and it'll save it. It'll be pretty hard the first time on any website because the video might be hard to find, but still it should work. I also found that it's better to open the sources page, and then play the video, because then the part where the video is will load and appear there, so you can have a better idea of where it is.