tried yt-dlp, with browser cookies. Tried the developer tools trick too (network serction). None has worked
Try How do I pass cookie to yt-dlp.
As install YT-dlp on your command line, (including ffmpeg). Log in to your site, and use this section to pass the cookie to your YT-dlp command with your video link.
I don’t think yt-dlp can crack DRM… most sites don’t bother using it.
I use this https://www.downloadhelper.net. Not to download but to get the video URL and download using other tools.
it gives and error because it wants to download using their desktop addon, but via the dots you can select to copy the URL. In the Addon settings you can change copy URL to the default. the URL you get will work with yt-dlp
I always try yt-dlp first with the website URL. If that doesn’t work I either try the URL shown in the network tab in the debug menu or try to find a video source URL by inspecting the video html container.
Once I’ve found a URL using one of those methods I again throw it at yt-dlp
Can you watch the video on the page? If so I would use OBS Studio to screen record it. If not, no idea, good luck!
Video DownloadHelper?
Try using Jdownloader2
@zaknenou try cobalt.tools
Dumb question, but does the page source show where the video is contained?
hmm, I tried view page source, on the opened page I found only one occurrence of word “video”: ``
If the page uses the built-in player, right click and save as should work. If right click is disabled, get an extension to force enable it.
you can shift+right click on a page to force it, no extension needed
option isn’t there
Can you give us the URL?
didn’t want to publish specific link cuz I thought it would break community’s rules
here: https://www.aljazeera360.com/video/751778?t=0
you will need to sign inThey seem to use MPEG-DASH, which shows as a series of MP4 files each returning 206 Partial Content. I tried https://github.com/emarsden/dash-mpd-cli to download it using the MPD XML file, which you can find by filtering for “master” in your browsers network log. But that didn’t work. Still, you might want to spend more time on it than I have at the moment.
hmm, from searching yesterday, I found it mentioned in stackexchange or r/youtubdl that I’m supposed to “decrypt” them, not sure what it means. Maybe someday I’ll search more, rn I’m on limited data plan
