Downloading videos can be a pain, especially when the website you're using doesn’t want to make it easy. To prevent people from downloading their videos, some websites even use a

For some reason I got my back up about not being able to download a streaming video from a site.

I didn’t need the video, but this guide was useful for grabbing via VLC

  • @syzizeky
    1•11 months ago

    Thanks!

    I don’t seem to be able to find the m3u8 in network tab with Firefox, so not sure if thats my fault or if youtube changed something. I’ll think to search for the m3u8 in the network tab next time I encounter a blob elsewhere, though.

    I often have trouble trying to get VLC to work with videos on youtube directly, and it didn’t seem to like the blob link from youtube as described by this article, I assume youtube changed something and VLC hasn’t been updated to keep pace.

    (Article is from 2021)

    So strictly speaking, blobs themselves still cannot be downloaded but it is often possible to find the stream link which will work when a blob is being used.