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

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.