Rumble not working ?

[cowpoke]

Hello, new here

Ran the youtube-dl, worked on youtube.
Tried for Rumble, didn't work....

I thought I had read on the site that it would work for other sites as well, Rumble etc. ??

Is this true?

Thanks

[jagabo]

Use a browser's Developer Tools (F12, Network tab) to get a link to the mp4 file. You can download via that link. For example, this page:

https://rumble.com/vg5zgv-baby-laughs-hysterically-over-cat.html

leads to this mp4 file:

https://i.rmbl.ws/s8/2/p/l/L/N/plLNb.caa.1.mp4?u=3&b=0

right click on the link and save the video. Or play the video in a browser, right click on it, and Save As... Or you can use youtube-dl to download via that link:

youtube-dl https://i.rmbl.ws/s8/2/p/l/L/N/plLNb.caa.1.mp4?u=3&b=0

[cowpoke]

Jagabo

I did try that, got to network... popped up a screen on the bottom of the video.
some sort of tool/options setup screen... but did not see the change in the link address ??

Using Firrefox

[jagabo]

It only shows you the links as they are being opened by the browser. Where it says Filter URLs -- enter mp4. Then reload the page and play the video. You will see the mp4 link(s) in Developer Tools.

[cowpoke]

jagabo

this is what I saw, looks like 3 mp4 files....
I did get it to work and DL, just wondering what the 3 different files were ?

[jagabo]

They're probably all the same. Sometimes it will be different resolutions. Servers often start with a low resolution version then switch to higher resolution if it finds you have sufficient internet bandwidth. Try the last one first.

[cowpoke]

Thanks for the info.

p.s.
All of this is just a long way to DL the audio...
once I get the vid I have a program that strips out the audio/mp3

But I'm always looking for other/better ways to do that if you know of any ?

[jagabo]

Since these files are easily accessible by the link you can use ffmpeg:

ffmpeg -i "https://i.rmbl.ws/s8/2/p/l/L/N/plLNb.caa.1.mp4?u=3&b=0" -c copy output.aac

That will get you an aac file called output.aac.