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tried yt-dlp, with browser cookies. Tried the developer tools trick too (network serction). None has worked

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[–] tomatolung@sopuli.xyz 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

[–] infinull@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 month ago

I don't think yt-dlp can crack DRM... most sites don't bother using it.

[–] Scrath@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 1 month ago

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

[–] loaf@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Dumb question, but does the page source show where the video is contained?

[–] zaknenou@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 month ago

hmm, I tried view page source, on the opened page I found only one occurrence of word "video": <meta property="og:url" content="/video/751778"/>

[–] istdaslol@feddit.org 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I use this https://www.downloadhelper.net/. Not to download but to get the video URL and download using other tools.

[–] zaknenou@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] istdaslol@feddit.org 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] zaknenou@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I think the DRM did not allow access to the link

[–] incognito08@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] yetAnotherUser@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

What was the error you got when you ran yt-dlp?

[–] zaknenou@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 month ago

[generic] Extracting URL: https://www.aljazeera360.com/video/742807 [generic] 742807: Downloading webpage WARNING: [generic] Falling back on generic information extractor [generic] 742807: Extracting information ERROR: Unsupported URL: https://www.aljazeera360.com/video/742807

[–] Yuki@kutsuya.dev 4 points 1 month ago

Most of the time you can check your network tab in the dev console. If it's not there, throw the url at jdownloader.

[–] state_electrician@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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.

[–] Blisterexe@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 month ago

you can shift+right click on a page to force it, no extension needed

[–] zaknenou@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] state_electrician@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] zaknenou@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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
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[–] state_electrician@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

They 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.

[–] zaknenou@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 month ago

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

[–] petrescatraian@libranet.de 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] zaknenou@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] petrescatraian@libranet.de 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] zaknenou@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

sorry ~~'? It was actually a nice suggestion, I bookmarked the site, might steal their design hehe actually thank you

[–] petrescatraian@libranet.de 2 points 1 month ago

@zaknenou be sure to ;) 👉👉

[–] Ghost999@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 month ago

Try using Jdownloader2