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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Needed a local copy of a video posted to social media, and realized today I already had the tools to obtain it.

Requirements

Open the page containing the video. Do not start playing the video yet
Open the browser's dev tools and click to the Network tab
(Optional) Set the filter to "Media"
Start playing the video
Look in the network tab for the first network request that references an .m3u8 file.
Copy that URL
Run ffmpeg -protocol_whitelist file,http,https,tcp,tls,crypto -i "https://url-you-copied/file.m3u8" -c copy output_filiename.mp4

That's it.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yeah, I saw the steps for VLC and they're similar. I tend to prefer CLI, so that's what I did / wrote up.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Yeah I feel more comfortably just typing the commands instead of trying to find my way through a gui