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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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szepeviktor commented May 28, 2020 •
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wget -qO- "http://fast.wistia.net/embed/iframe/VIDEO-ID" \
  | sed -n -e 's#^\s*W\.iframeInit(\(.\+\), {[^}]*});\s*$#\1#p' \
  | jq -r '."assets"[0]."url" | sub("\\.bin$"; ".mp4")'

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curl -s "https://fast.wistia.net/embed/iframe/VIDEO_ID?videoFoam=true" /
| grep iframeInit /
| sed -e 's/W.iframeInit(\(.*\), {"deliveryCdn":null});/\1/' /
| jq -r '.assets[0].url' /
| xargs curl -O

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Thank you.

Maybe videoFoam=true causes no change in the HTML output.

@joepietrzak
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goated

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Thank you!

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