Do you know of any similar tool to yt-dlp that allows for download of CNN website videos?

[Useful_Mistake]

I know back when yt-dll worked, that was possible on it, but it seems to not work on yt-dlp. Any help would be apprieciated.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

The "Video Download Helper" extension available on most browsers can detect a stream playing(you need to push play so it is going) and then download it.

 

[and 15 others]

Why do you want to download propaganda and clickbait?

 

[Useful_Mistake]

Why do you want to download propaganda and clickbait?

Archive purposes, mostly for the Ukraine thread

 

[XYZpdq]

The "Video Download Helper" extension available on most browsers can detect a stream playing(you need to push play so it is going) and then download it.

yeah on the odd occasion yt-dlp hasn't worked I find VDH can occasionally clear weird browser hurdles

 

[Aidan]

You can use yt-dlp but I don't know of a very convenient way of doing it and you'll need to manually specify the naming using the -o option.
I'll post how to do it using Brave but the same works in Firefox, the interface is just slightly different.

Article: https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/05/politics/ukraine-russia-zelensky-us-lawmakers/index.html

1. Inspect the web page using the browser inspect tool (right click, select inspect)
2. Click the "network" tab.
   
   
3. Play the media in question by clicking it in the preview (on the the left in the image)
4. You'll see a lot of http stuff pop up, find the media URL by clicking any of the stream requests. Here they are named "stream.m3u8" but sites vary.
   
   
5. You'll see the URL which is usually enough to know if you're on the right track. "CDN" (as in warnermediacdn) is a Content Delivery Network aka where they host their clips and other media. It's almost always a URL with CDN in it no matter where you go.
   Copy this URL and use yt-dlp to name it.
6. yt-dlp -o "Ukraine releases video of Russian helicopter being shot down.mp4" https://clips-media-ctl.warnermediacdn.com/cnn/clips/2022-03/678232-22a913ed73f544668752ea8c33b94848/ts/media-4/stream.m3u8

This should be trivial to script but I can't help with that right now. If I get around to it I'll try to remember to post an update in here.

 

[Useful_Mistake]

You can use yt-dlp but I don't know of a very convenient way of doing it and you'll need to manually specify the naming using the -o option.
I'll post how to do it using Brave but the same works in Firefox, the interface is just slightly different.

Article: https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/05/politics/ukraine-russia-zelensky-us-lawmakers/index.html

1. Inspect the web page using the browser inspect tool (right click, select inspect)
2. Click the "network" tab.
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3. Play the media in question by clicking it in the preview (on the the left in the image)
4. You'll see a lot of http stuff pop up, find the media URL by clicking any of the stream requests. Here they are named "stream.m3u8" but sites vary.
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5. You'll see the URL which is usually enough to know if you're on the right track. "CDN" (as in warnermediacdn) is a Content Delivery Network aka where they host their clips and other media. It's almost always a URL with CDN in it no matter where you go.
   Copy this URL and use yt-dlp to name it.
6. yt-dlp -o "Ukraine releases video of Russian helicopter being shot down.mp4" https://clips-media-ctl.warnermediacdn.com/cnn/clips/2022-03/678232-22a913ed73f544668752ea8c33b94848/ts/media-4/stream.m3u8

This should be trivial to script but I can't help with that right now. If I get around to it I'll try to remember to post an update in here.
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Thanks!