How to download wistia video?

You may see on a web page a video  that is hosted by wistia.com. I mean the web page is not one of wistia.com pages but the video is indeed served by wistia by embedded code. How to download it?

First, get the wistia id of the video. You can press F12 or right-click  to analyze the element of the video frame. The video id is in the parameter like wvideo=xxxxxxxxxx. xxxxxxxxxx is the wistia id of the video.

Second, visit the url: https://fast.wistia.net/embed/iframe/xxxxxxxxxx in your browser. Here, xxxxxxxxxx is the video id obtained in previous step.

Third, press Ctrl+U to see the source code of the visited web page and search “bin”, and you will get a url like https://embed-ssl.wistia.com/deliveries/yyyyy.bin

Fourth, visit that url  (https://embed-ssl.wistia.com/deliveries/yyyyy.bin) in a new tab of your browser and click the browser menu item “File/Save Page As…” to save the file. Although the url ends with .bin, when you save the page, you will see the file becomes yyyyy.mp4, which is the video to download.

 

 

 

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