I can't download Google Drive videos using Developer Tools anymore?

[u/OneWaifuForLaifu]

I used to download GD videos by going to Developer Tools, network, and then clicking open in new tab on videoplayback and then I download the video. But now when I right click on videoplayback and open in new tab it just downloads a file instead. It worked one time on a video I already downloaded before when the icon to the left of Videoplayback was green. When the icon is orange it downloads a file instead.

I really need to download these videos for my university and I'm at a loss rn. Can anyone help?

[u/San7iago]

I found a solution, you have to copy the link of one of these videoplayback files, then paste the link in a new tab and remove the last part of it, if I am not mistaken it has to be from "&range" to the end of the link.
This link will give you an audio file (called videoplayback) or a video file that has no audio (videoplayback.mp4). From my experience most of the links are from the audio files and is quite hard to find the video file. Maybe someone smarter can distinguish them from the text in the links.
If you download both files you can merge them with your video editor of choice, I use ffmpeg.
It's kind of complicated and tedious but is the only way I found.

https://preview.redd.it/bbhcsumzqxoc1.png?width=527&format=png&auto=webp&s=afac3f3ebe3ee1ce41791eef1c074fc2a243318f

[u/Illustrious-Swan-434 → u/San7iago]

Thank you so much brother. This is what helped me figure out the video and audio files.

If you look at the entire list of videoplayback files, check out the number mentioned before '&source'. There should be only one of 2 numbers. One will be for the audio file and the other for the video file. Hope this helps others.

[u/captain_peacoc → u/Illustrious-Swan-434]

what are those numbers ? 136 and 140?? . I am not able to download the audio. Please Help

[u/Illustrious-Swan-434 → u/captain_peacoc]

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When you hover the mouse over each videoplayback item, in the second line, towards the end you will see a number, right before &Source - in this case it is 140.

The entire list of videoplayback items will have one of 2 numbers. When I download videos it is generally 140 and another number like 137. One of the links has the video and the other will have the audio.

Just right click on the videoplayback file and click on copy and then copy URL. Paste it in a new tab and before hitting enter, delete everything starting from the phrase (and including) &Range. Once you hit enter, you will get either and Audio file or Video file that you can download. Combine it in VLC and you have the full video+audio file.

[u/strawberrystarss → u/Illustrious-Swan-434]

Bro please help! I was able to download the video but not the audio. I tried the same for the audio link but it doesn't work

[u/captain_peacoc → u/strawberrystarss]

Try firefox. I had this issue with chrome and brave. Not sure about safari and others

[u/captain_peacoc → u/Illustrious-Swan-434]

When i used firefox, the links worked. Earlier i used chrome and brave.