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

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

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

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

Still works :-) Thank you!

Thanks, it works really nice!

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...

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?

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

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!

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?

Has anybody encountered different code for the video like thumbnail_120728 (https://study.com/academy/lesson/what-is-word-processing-software-definition-types-examples.html)? On this site there are different video IDs.

I had to extract 365 links and download them with a proper naming - best way I found for myself:

1. Use/Open Ditto to save everything copied to the clipboard
2. Rightclick on every video and copy the link (takes some time for 365 videos, you just need some quick fingers)
3. Copy all the links from Ditto into notepad (because of the link format) and afterwards into Excel
4. Extract the ID with an easy formula into this format "http://fast.wistia.net/embed/iframe/ + video ID"
5. Copy all 365 links into JDownloader and enjoy

This way the naming of the original source will also be taken, in my case everything was named like 01-01, 01-02 ... 80-01, 80-02 ... and it took it from the original source. As I'm working with Excel everyday, it was also the quickest way for me.
If someone wants to use this way, the Excel formula (if the link is in A1):
=CONCATENATE("http://fast.wistia.net/embed/iframe/", MID(A1, FIND("wvideo", A1) + 7, FIND("""", A1) - 2))

With the tool for Google Chrome it just gets saved with the name "video", the other tools can just handle one at a time and also don't take the original name like JDownloader. But I also see, that you could rename the videos afterwards, if you're doing it chronologically, as their names will be (1), (2), ...
Hope you can still improve the tool regarding the names, would be pretty nice!

I had to extract 365 links and download them with a proper naming - best way I found for myself:

1. Use/Open Ditto to save everything copied to the clipboard
2. Rightclick on every video and copy the link (takes some time for 365 videos, you just need some quick fingers)
3. Copy all the links from Ditto into notepad (because of the link format) and afterwards into Excel
4. Extract the ID with an easy formula into this format "http://fast.wistia.net/embed/iframe/ + video ID"
5. Copy all 365 links into JDownloader and enjoy

This way the naming of the original source will also be taken, in my case everything was named like 01-01, 01-02 ... 80-01, 80-02 ... and it took it from the original source. As I'm working with Excel everyday, it was also the quickest way for me. If someone wants to use this way, the Excel formula (if the link is in A1): =CONCATENATE("http://fast.wistia.net/embed/iframe/", MID(A1, FIND("wvideo", A1) + 7, FIND("""", A1) - 2))

With the tool for Google Chrome it just gets saved with the name "video", the other tools can just handle one at a time and also don't take the original name like JDownloader. But I also see, that you could rename the videos afterwards, if you're doing it chronologically, as their names will be (1), (2), ... Hope you can still improve the tool regarding the names, would be pretty nice!

Have you thought of using this Chrome extension? Maybe it'll save you all that headache:
https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/fhmlmcbfjnegdoafmfcfmhpahfegdjlp?authuser=1&hl=en