- right-click on the playing video, select Copy link
- find Wistia video ID in the copied link e.g.
wvideo=tra6gsm6rl- alternative: look for e.g.
hashedId=tra6gsm6rlin the page source
- alternative: look for e.g.
- load
http://fast.wistia.net/embed/iframe/+ video ID in your browser - 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"
- alternative: look for
- download the video from the URL with
.mp4extension instead of.bin
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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.