youtube-dl -o output-filename.mp4 --referer "https://zoom.us/" --add-header "Cookie: <Header cookie>" "<General Request URL>"
When you visit the Zoom recording that you want to download.
- Go to the url of the recording you want to download and open the browsers developer tools by pressing
Ctrl + Shift + I
orF12
. - Click on the Network tab on the developer tools
- Refresh the page
Ctrl+R
orF5
. - Search for
.mp4
in the search box of the developer tools. - Find and copy the
cookie
information Request Headers section
Note: You will need to copy the text Cookie:
along with the content
Copy the request url from the dev tools from the same video request we were looking at in the previous step. This time from the Request URL
field in the General section
Source: https://michaelabrahamsen.com/posts/how-to-download-zoom-recordings/