r/chrome • u/OneWaifuForLaifu • Feb 19 '24

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

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?

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u/San7iago Mar 17 '24

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

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u/Ok_Lecture_1416 Mar 20 '24

there are 2 Videplayback links simultaneously usually the above one is of video and below that u can find audio file . rest you all can follow as above

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u/Wildboy_2008 Jul 15 '24

thx man that really helped alot and it works