I found blob:https://www.facebook.com/c7e5a634-2343-4464-a03e-4a1987301ca1 video source on Facebook's private group and I really can't download the video by entering the url nor am I able to decode. Is there any way to decode this?
<video height="274" width="476" preload="auto" style="" class="_ox1 _21y0 _1_d1" data-video-width="476" data-video-height="274" data-original-aspect-ratio="1.7387058423913" id="u_0_27" src="blob:https://www.facebook.com/dc89feae-5b46-4103-8ee9-da7d7630ca94"></video>
This method will get the video and its audio AS SEPARATE FILES. The downloaded video will have no sound, but you will be able to download its audio file and connect it to the video in some video editing program if you need to.
In Google Chrome, go to Facebook.
Open the Chrome Developer Tools (F12).
Go to the Network tab in the Developer Tools (it's at the top of the Developer Tools window)
Play the video you would like to download on Facebook. Let it play for a few seconds and look at the Network tab during that. Long strings of numbers will appear every couple of seconds.
Right click one of those strings, then go Copy>Copy link address
Paste (CTRL+V) the link you copied somewhere (eg Notepad) and remove "&bytestart=3684046&byteend=3862768" from the end.
So I have a link like:
https://scontent-waw1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t66.18014-6/46772657_738781116188283_6399514850013601801_n.mp4?_nc_cat=107&efg=4yJ7ZW5jb2RlX3RhZyI6ImRhc2hfb2VwX2hxMl9mcmFnXzJfdmlkZW8ifQ%3D%3D&_nc_ht=scontent-waw1-xx&oh=91a5abdd5608768a05fd884773a45802&oe=5C29B042
&bytestart=3684046&byteend=3862768
After you cut the bold part out, the link that points to the full .mp4 or .webm of the video is:
https://scontent-waw1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t66.18014-6/46772657_738781116188283_6399514850013601801_n.mp4?_nc_cat=107&efg=4yJ7ZW5jb2RlX3RhZyI6ImRhc2hfb2VwX2hxMl9mcmFnXzJfdmlkZW8ifQ%3D%3D&_nc_ht=scontent-waw1-xx&oh=91a5abdd5608768a05fd884773a45802&oe=5C29B042
Open the modified link, right click the video inside and select "Save video as..."
Sometimes, when you open the link you may get just the audio of the video instead of the video itself.
That's because Facebook downloads the audio and video separately. Just try repeating steps 5-7 with a different string of numbers till you get it right. Instructions to reduce the chance of accidentally picking an audio link are below.
If you need to download many videos and don't want to guess whether your link points to audio or video, type larger-than: 50k (or more) in the Filter field in the Network tab. You can also click the XHR button in Filters so it doesn't show non-video files like FB images.
You can download an FB video in a chrome browser with no plugins / other software required. (As long as you are logged into FB and have permission to view the video).
open up the video and r.click for Get Video URL (copy it) -if you have the option "Copy URL at current time", use that option instead of "Show video URL"
paste that address into another tab and replace the www with m e.g. https://m.facebook.com/MusicIsMagico/videos/2645908645633407/?t=0
play the video, while it's playing open the dev tools and go to the elements tab
search for mp4 till you find a source address that's inside the
video tags - which will be inside a div that also contains another address with forward slashes and .mp4 in it.
e.g.
https://video.fmel5-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t42.9040-2/10000000_1804934796220974_2070197824632389632_n.mp4?_nc_cat=1&efg=eyJ2ZW5jb2RlX3RhZyI6InN2ZV9zZCJ9&oh=785f223b80388c820f79b9a49c1dfc39&oe=5B73B10B
copy this source address. When you copy the address, chrome (if that's what you are using) does the html replacement for the ampersand characters. You will need to put them back. So replace the "& a m p ;" (< had to space that so it doesn't get converted here) separators in the address with just & - use notepad find and replace or something ) and paste in another tab. Drop any parts of the URL that have frame sizing etc.. so you address should look like this:
https://video.fmel5-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t42.9040-2/10000000_1804934796220974_2070197824632389632_n.mp4?_nc_cat=1&efg=eyJ2ZW5jb2RlX3RhZyI6InN2ZV9zZCJ9&oh=5f241d3c08d5c819b0c3810d0e21d73b&oe=5B73BF1B
this will load
your browsers default html video player which has a download button
this will all only work if you are logged into FB and have permission to view the video (doesnt' work incognito)
Getting the right URL can take a bit of playing around but it works when you've got it right
Another alternative that worked in Firefox in Feb 2021:
Open the post's permalink
Change the page's URL - replace www with m and load that
Now use Inspector to navigate down to the div containing the video object - and the video URL will be a direct link
Copy-paste that URL into your browser, or create an anchor link to that URL and load your link and right-click to save destination.
It downloads as mp4 including video and audio.
Update, 2 Jul 2021
When I followed my own steps today, pasting the mp4 URL returned a page giving the following error:
Bad URL timestamp
However, I still found a work-around.
Side note: One of the containing divs has ID mobile_injected_video_feed_pagelet.
Facebook now injects the video element when you hit the play button.
That VIDEO element contains the URL you need. The URL does contain "MP4" in the path.
What I did was:
Open Inspector
Hit "Play" on the video
While the video is playing, find the VIDEO element and copy the URL from the VIDEO element
Paste that into a new tab
The new tab would show a smaller thumbnail of the video
Right-click the thumbnail and save the media to your PC
You must hit play for the VIDEO element to appear in the page source.
I'm using Firefox but any browser with an inspector should work.
Add this extension to your chrome browser to download FB videos:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/video-downloader-plus/njgehaondchbmjmajphnhlojfnbfokng
Once installed, go play the video and click the fb downloader icon (Downward Arrow icon) and choose your desired resolution.
I use Blob Video Downloader extension. It takes a few mins but it opens a new tab with a button to download video. I try it with a 1min video 720p.
For video that is in this blob format
or other formats served by Facebook with the intent to hide the ability to download, you can try loading the page without Javascript. They will serve you a version that is compatible, which means directlink
Tested working 11-2020
I assemble here the necessary steps from the different answers :
Facebook downloads the audio and the video separately, so get the
audio link from the google chrome inspector, by right click on the
video and choosing inspect ,going to Inspector, Network Tab, and
checking the links, use filter:larger-than:50k in the filter area to
select bigger files (change 50k according to the length of your
video), look in the results for mp4 or wav links, remove
&bytestart=number_here &byteend =number_here from the end of the
link, open it and download the audio
Get the video link from the google chrome inspector, using same
steps above, open the link and download the video
Now in order to mix the audio and the video, we need to use ffmeg :
Download ffmpeg build for your OS from its website, use this link
Extract the downloaded zip file
Open your command line tool and cd to :
\Downloads\ffmpeg-2021-04-28-git-1ab74bc193-full_build\ffmpeg-2021-04-28-git-1ab74bc193-full_build\bin
(change according to which version you downloaded)
Assume the input files are in the current folder, the output will be
generated in the current folder too
Mix the audio and the video with ffmpeg using command :
.\ffmpeg.exe -i video.ext -i audio.ext -c:v copy -c:a aac output.mp4
I am trying to download an online streaming video and tried a lots of websites like keepvid.com, savevid.com, clipconverter.cc file2hd.com and lots more. I tried few players too like osflv FlowPlayer Gnash OS Player etc I tried some chrome and firefox extensions like Video Download helper etc but I am unable to download.
I found few options where the live stream gets recorded and then it is downloaded but due to poor internet connection, the recorded stream quality is not good. Can someone suggest what can i use to download this video? The link asks to login, just cancel the popup without logging in, you will still get access to the video in the link below.
http://www.topperlearning.com/study/icse/class-6/physics/video-lessons/measurement/2008/b110c5s4e5ch2718
it is some kind of CDN or cloud or some protocol like that. I found this in my research but I am not sure.
EDIT
Ok I got a way to download it but its kind of tedious. This is what I have tried.
Open Firefox
Type the above url and press enter (dont play the video) From the
Top-Right menu, click on Developer and then click Network
Ctrl+Shift+Q is the shortcut for above
Now play the video
In the box below, you will see some activity
Now look at the "Type" column. You will see few rows where the type
is "mp2t" These are the videos that gets segregated in bits and
pieces.
If you right click the row and click on open in new tab, it gives
you an option to download
To see all the videos together, you can select "Media" from the bottom bar.
Now the issue is : How to install all the bits together and how to assemble them in one full video.
You know that kind of question isn't really for this site...
Anyhow - all the services you have tried are specifically designed to work with a stream that's already going on in the web as it were, the best way to do this would be to connect the stream to a program on your machine, rather than a browser.
I'd use VLC, connect the stream with the direct URL i.e http://someaddress/thestream.media_extension, VLC allows you to record playback to a file, so simply leave it to playback and record it.
I am working with a group at developing an app that will essentially be a 'radio' app. One view that will just play whatever audio is streaming at the time, and another view or two of archives to listen to past programs. What I am working on right now is how to assemble the view to play. The site in question is on-this-rock.org and the source for playing is here
Any suggestions for how I can best go about building the player to stream in the audio, without needing the rest of the site graphics?
Thanks
The stream URL is actually:
http://s4.voscast.com:8080/
This is just a SHOUTcast stream. You can build your radio player to connect directly to it. No need for the HTML/Flash on the website itself.
You can find this easily by looking at your browser tool's network tab, or by using a tool such as Fiddler or Wireshark.
I am trying to develop an iPhone app which will be able to show live stream video on iPhone.The link is in format 'http://192.168.111.18:8002/testlink'.
I went through all the apple documentation and have downloaded mediastreamsegmenter and also it has been installed properly as I can see its details using 'man mediastreamsegmenter' command.I couldn't understand it after that.Please guide me regarding this.
You should use a link with suffix ".m3u8", which contains the TS segments of the live video stream. When you click on the "m3u8" link, then the video player will be launched to request for those TS segments, otherwise, the browser won't know it is a live video link.
https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/NetworkingInternet/Conceptual/StreamingMediaGuide/Introduction/Introduction.html
Why is it that if I pick a video from the library in my application I'm given this horribly pixelated/compressed video but if I take the video with the camera in my application I'm given a nice video file, this is on the iphone 4.
Sample of video taken w/in the app:
http://photos.smugmug.com/photos/912709066_Kcc8p-1280.mp4
Sample of video picked from the library:
http://photos.smugmug.com/photos/912709325_hw7Bv-1280.mp4
Both are 720p. Setting videoQuality to 'UIImagePickerControllerQualityTypeHigh' doesn't help, which makes sense really since that appears to be just for setting the recording resolution when using the camera.
Sam
i had the same assumption as Shizam till i saw an FTP app upload a video just fine on an iPhone 4. its not the quality of the imported video thats the problem. if you download the app's sandbox and look at the imported video you will see its fine.
go to Window/Organizer and select your device. there will be a list of Applications in the bottom right. select the app in question and click the expansion triangle. you will see "Application Data" click on the little black downward arrow and tell it when to save the data. then go look at the video in the tmp folder. you will see its fine.
the problem comes when you try to send it out via HTTP. for what ever reason Apple decided to add an extra crappy video compression to videos sent over HTTP. if you FTP the file to the server the video quality is actually very good similar to what you get when you email the video to yourself. Apple gives you a working example of how to FTP to and from a server.
See my post here. You can improve the quality by changing some settings.
Avoid Video Compression when Selecting Movie with UIImagePickerController?