Install ffmpeg and Python 3:
- Debian/Ubuntu:
sudo apt install -y ffmpeg python3
- Mac OS X:
brew install ffmpeg python
Install Python tqdm module: sudo python3 -m pip install --upgrade tqdm
For each video you want to download:
- Open the page containing the embedded video.
- Open development console (Chrome: F12).
- Go to the Network tab.
- Right click on the
master.json
request, select Copy โ Copy link address. An example of how such a URL could look like:https://178skyfiregce-a.akamaihd.net/exp=1474107106~acl=%2F142089577%2F%2A~hmac=0d9becc441fc5385462d53bf59cf019c0184690862f49b414e9a2f1c5bafbe0d/142089577/video/426274424,426274425,426274423,426274422/master.json?base64_init=1
.
Create a TSV file (can be done e. g. by copy-pasting from Google Sheets), where the first column is output file name (ending with .mp4
) and the second is this URL to master.json
.
Then run the script, providing the name of this file with names and URLs:
./vimeo-autio-and-video.py -i names_urls.txt
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