Download Wistia videos - Please do not misuse it!

Wistia-download-videos.md

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

Awesome @willberthun

I think they might have tighten their service, as no available method seem to work anymore

Awesome @willberthun

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I think they might have tighten their service, as no available method seem to work anymore

Try the wistia video downloader. it always work fine and fast. few ads will appear just to keep me motivated and pay the server costs

Planning on creating an issue-free Chrome extension sooner as well. Gday!

That one fails too, at least with my URLs

That one fails too, at least with my URLs

The tool is made to extract the video ID, even after pasting the whole source code (it does the video ID filtering itself with some regex)

Is it a private video? Providing the video ID here may help. if the video is not sensitive

Yep it's private, but I remember this tool worked with these videos anyway. Can't paste it here, but I can provide the ID privately if you wish to give it a try.

I think they might have tighten their service, as no available method seem to work anymore

This Chrome extension is still working to download Wistia vids as far as I'm concerned...
https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/fhmlmcbfjnegdoafmfcfmhpahfegdjlp

Has anyone tried the extension or wistiavideodownloader.com with a private url? I'd love to share my links to try but don't really want to share them publicly. One way I can think of is making a private repo and sharing access there, I don't think this platform has PMs.

Has anyone tried the extension or wistiavideodownloader.com with a private url? I'd love to share my links to try but don't really want to share them publicly. One way I can think of is making a private repo and sharing access there, I don't think this platform has PMs.

What do you mean by private URL? a URL that requires login to view the video?

Has anyone tried the extension or wistiavideodownloader.com with a private url? I'd love to share my links to try but don't really want to share them publicly. One way I can think of is making a private repo and sharing access there, I don't think this platform has PMs.

I logged into my paid training portal on Edge and found the wistia hashed_Id code, went to Chrome and used the video downloader and pasted in the hashed code without having logged in previously. So, technically, the wistia codes are all "public" but good luck getting the hashed Ids without accessing the paid training at least once.

I'm all for keeping a local copy of something I paid for. In this case, the videos are hosted on Wistia while the course provider is Thinkific. I'm 100% sure something changed between a couple of months ago and now, as the *.bin files previously accessible by looking into the jsop now return 403, even from within the same authenticated browser session. I'm not a frontend dev, but if I have to guess an authentication code/token is now sent when the website requests that resource.