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How to download video with blob url.

2 min readJan 16, 2019

sometimes you want download videos with URL like this
blob:http://xxx.xxx/5047eabf-77e0-41f9-9d05-b6932669d712
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what is blob?

step1.use google chrome open url.

step2. open developer tools

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step3.
click Refresh button and click Network.
now you can not found any one video stream’s Size was stable increase.

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step4.
input m3 in Filter.
you can found m3u8 or m3u4, it’s file.
just double click the file , in my picture was his_720_m3u8.

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step5.
copy the URL:

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step6.
open VLC player and click Open Network.
downloadVLC

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step7.
input URL and check Stream output then click Settings…

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step8.click Browse to setting file name with .mp4, finally click OK to go back VLC player.

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step9.
you can see the time scroll bar was running.
now just waiting download whole file.

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Jameskrauser Lee
Jameskrauser Lee

Written by Jameskrauser Lee

For the last few years. i was involved mostly in the development of Automatic Fare collection system for the Chennai Metro. Familiar with C++ and iOS.