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Downloading Read-Only Microsoft Teams and Stream Videos and Recordings with FFMPEG

Getting the URL

  • Go to URL which has the video, open dev tools (usually F12) / inspect (Right Click > Inspect) in the browser and go to the Network tab.

  • Then reload the page.

  • In the network tab, search the following command using the search area. videomanifest?provider

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  • Click on the highlighted area and you can see the right panel is viewing some contents. image

  • You can find the URL under Request URL, this is the URL that we need to download the Teams / Stream video content. Copy this URL.

Downloading the video

  • Make sure you are in the right directory and use to download the video:

ffmpeg -i "URL_TO_DOWNLOAD" -codec copy VIDEO_FILE.mp4

  • If you get "Invalid data found when processing input" try removing url parameters starting with altManifestMetadata all the way to the end of the url
  • Use ffmpeg -h to get help with all ffmpeg options.
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