For those who cam here looking for ways to download blob videos, this page works for you. In this guide, you will find everything you need to know about blob videos and how to download blob videos.
Previously, users could download embedded videos from streaming sites through "Inspect Element," but things got changed since many sites determined to take measures to prevent such illegal downloads. And their effort to stop this is to adapt the blob URL. Speaking of blob URL, you may wonder: what is a blob URL?
Briefly speaking, the blob URL is a collection of binary data that stores multimedia objects like images, videos, audio, and more. Unlike standard links that source to data on the server, blob URLs source to data that your browser currently has in memory. Hence such a kind of URL is not available on other pages, browsers, or computers. That's why you see "404," or "Your files were not found" or other errors when you try to open such a URL on a new browser.
Knowing what blob ULR is can be helpful to know how to download the video from the blob URL. And below, we will show you a couple of easy ways to download blob videos.
Disclaimer: Remember not to download any copyrighted videos without the content owner's permission, or you may face some copyright problems.
On some sites, you can directly download blob videos without using any extra tool. And the process is similar to downloading videos via "Inspect Element." You just need to find the .mp4 link and then download it on a new page. Here are detailed steps.
Step 1. Open your desired blob video on a browser.
Step 2. Right-click on this page and select "Inspect."
Step 3. Under the "Element" section, press "Ctrl+F" to search for the video link with the mp4 extension.
Step 4. Copy and paste the link tap a new tab.
Step 5. Click the three-dots icon to save videos on your computer.
If you failed to download blob videos with the above method, you could also try opening a blob video > Right-click the page to select "Inspect" > Choose "Network" > Download videos in .m3u8 or .ts format.
If you're lucky enough, you can download your desired videos using either of the methods mentioned above. But in most cases, you may fail because blob videos on different websites have different codes, and these codes keep updating. Hence you're very likely to waste your time doing a thing that is bound to fail. We guess no one wants to do that, so we find an easier and safer solution to download blob videos below.
Whether you know it or not, each blob video has both a blob and an ordinary URL. Though you can't download blob video using its blob URL, you can save videos with this video downloader - EaseUS Video Downloader. With this program, you can download blob videos from YouTube, Vimeo, Facebook, Dailymotion, and other popular video-streaming websites.
Compared with Method 1, this method offers a higher download success rate and more download options, such as:
To download blob videos:
Step 1. Copy the URL of the YouTube video you want to download.
Step 2. Preset the format and quality preferences on its Home page.
Step 3. Click "Paste Link" and it starts analyze the link and start to download the video.
Step 4. Once the download is complete, check the downloaded video below its "Finished" tab.
Disclaimer: The information provided in this guide is for personal fair use. EaseUS is in no way collaborated or affiliated with YouTube and will never approve any copyright infringement action. The use of the downloaded information is solely at your own risk.
These are all solutions to download blob videos on your computer. We hope these solutions can help you successfully download videos from YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, and other websites. Of these solutions, using a professional downloader is your best solution because it saves you a lot of time to test and try which blob videos can be downloaded directly through "Inspect Element."
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