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  1. Go to the video’s URL
  2. Right-Click on the video and select “Copy link and thumbnail”
  3. Open a notepad and paste the link you just copied.
  4. Search for a link that contains ?wvideo=<id>, where the appended <id> is the video identifier code.
  5. Copy that the video identifier code in notepad, and append it to this link: http://fast.wistia.net/embed/iframe/<id>
  6. Open up a new browser tab using the newly created link, and the video will load full-screen.
  7. Use the developers tools to open up and view the source-code of the new video in another tab.
  8. Search for the first link/URL that ends in “.bin”
  9. Copy and paste that link into a new tab, and then replace the “.bin” with “.mp4”, and hit enter.
  10. The video should now be able to download the video.
  11. Right-click on the video and “Save your video” to download it.
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