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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

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