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Download Wistia videos - Please do not misuse it!

Download Wistia videos

  1. right-click on the playing video, select Copy link
  2. find Wistia video ID in the copied link e.g. wvideo=tra6gsm6rl
    • alternative: look for e.g. hashedId=tra6gsm6rl in the page source
  3. load http://fast.wistia.net/embed/iframe/ + video ID in your browser
  4. look for "type":"original" in the page source and copy the URL from the next line e.g. "url":"http://embed.wistia.com/deliveries/129720d1762175bcd8e06dcab926ec76ad38ff00.bin"
    • alternative: look for "type":"hd_mp4_video"
  5. download the video from the URL with .mp4 extension instead of .bin
@chmichael
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Thanks!

@imrans999
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imrans999 commented Feb 26, 2025

The old Wistia Video Downloader chrome extension that was taken down still works if you load it as an unpacked extension: https://fastupload.io/1153d3c99d9d7468

Double-checked the code and there's nothing malicious about it.

This link is redirecting me to some spam website, wanting me to purchase norton av.

Managed to eventually download and install. After 10 mins or so, chrome removes the extension again saying it contains malware

@miquelpedro
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This is great! Anyone have something similar for Vimeo videos? Thanks!

@Concept211
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Concept211 commented Mar 5, 2025

The old Wistia Video Downloader chrome extension that was taken down still works if you load it as an unpacked extension: https://fastupload.io/1153d3c99d9d7468
Double-checked the code and there's nothing malicious about it.

This link is redirecting me to some spam website, wanting me to purchase norton av.

Managed to eventually download and install. After 10 mins or so, chrome removes the extension again saying it contains malware

Same thing started happening to me. I'm not sure what part of the code is triggering Chrome to think that it has malware but I ended up just temporarily disabling the "Safe Browsing" protection temporarily while I used the extension. Once I was done with it, I disabled the extension and re-enabled "Safe Browsing".

You can find the setting here:
chrome://settings/security

@wdmtech
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wdmtech commented Mar 25, 2025

Still works :-) Thank you!

@erlonbie
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erlonbie commented Apr 8, 2025

Thanks, it works really nice!

@egoldy
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egoldy commented Apr 9, 2025

I created a little website based on this that gets all asset urls, which fit my use case better. Maybe its helpful for some as well: https://jannispaul.github.io/wisita-url-fetcher/

Thanks for creating and sharing this my friend, I was panicking when the wistia extension disappeared but this works great.

Thanks...

@berroz1
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berroz1 commented May 4, 2025

HI guys!
I created a Chrome extension that does just that in a click of a button: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/fhmlmcbfjnegdoafmfcfmhpahfegdjlp?authuser=1&hl=en

I'd really appreciate it if you can give me your feedback after trying it. Any bugs, anything I can improve on it?

@imrans999
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HI guys! I created a Chrome extension that does just that in a click of a button: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/fhmlmcbfjnegdoafmfcfmhpahfegdjlp?authuser=1&hl=en

I'd really appreciate it if you can give me your feedback after trying it. Any bugs, anything I can improve on it?

Perfect thank you. Working Well and file sizes are good also

@berroz1
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berroz1 commented May 24, 2025

HI guys! I created a Chrome extension that does just that in a click of a button: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/fhmlmcbfjnegdoafmfcfmhpahfegdjlp?authuser=1&hl=en
I'd really appreciate it if you can give me your feedback after trying it. Any bugs, anything I can improve on it?

Perfect thank you. Working Well and file sizes are good also

I'm happy to hear that!

It would be great if you can leave me a review on the Google webstore, it will really help me and encourage me to offer more :)

Thanks!

@captainhook
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HI guys! I created a Chrome extension that does just that in a click of a button: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/fhmlmcbfjnegdoafmfcfmhpahfegdjlp?authuser=1&hl=en

I'd really appreciate it if you can give me your feedback after trying it. Any bugs, anything I can improve on it?

Brilliant. Are you going to put the code on Github so others can possibly contribute?

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