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Download Wistia videos - Please do not misuse it!
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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
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berroz1 commented Jun 22, 2025

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

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