How to download .m3u8 video with query string and EXT-X-KEY?

[j3321202]

The m3u8 file location is

https://hls2.videos.sproutvideo.com/4c6...../b24db8.../video/720.m3u8?Policy=eyJTd....._&Signature=S7pry.....__&Key-Pair-Id=APKAIB5DGCGAQJ4GGIUQ

The 720.key is in

https://hls2.videos.sproutvideo.com/4c6...../b24db8.../video/720.key?Policy=eyJTd....._&Signature=S7pry.....__&Key-Pair-Id=APKAIB5DGCGAQJ4GGIUQ

if I'm using ffmpeg -i "https://hls2.videos.sproutvideo.com/4c6...../b24db8.../video/720.m3u8?Policy=eyJTd....._&Signature=S7pry.....__ &Key-Pair-Id=APKA..... -c copy 01.ts to download the playlist. It will get a HTTP error 403 Forbidden for its key and ts file

[https @ 000000000364d8c0] HTTP error 403 Forbidden
Unable to open key file https://hls2.videos.sproutvideo.com/4c6...../b24db8.../video/720.key
[hls,applehttp @ 00000000005ec180] Opening 'crypto+https://hls2.videos.sproutvideo.com/4c6...../b24db8.../video/720_00000.ts' for rea
ding
[https @ 000000000364cc80] HTTP error 403 Forbidden
[crypto @ 0000000003695dc0] Unable to open resource: https://hls2.videos.sproutvideo.com/4c6...../b24db8.../video/720_00000.ts
[hls,applehttp @ 00000000005ec180] Failed to open segment 0 of playlist 0
[hls,applehttp @ 00000000005ec180] Opening 'crypto+https://hls2.videos.sproutvideo.com/4c6...../b24db8.../video/720_00001.ts' for rea
ding

And then I've figured it out the resouces can only be accessed by some specified query string. In this case, it would be ?Policy=eyJTd....._&Signature=S7pry.....__&Key-Pair-Id=APKAIB5DGCGAQJ4GGIUQ

My question is how to put a one-time query string to each ts and key files, so that ffmpeg are able to download it.

The 720.m3u8 file content:

#EXTM3U
#EXT-X-VERSION:3
#EXT-X-TARGETDURATION:10
#EXT-X-MEDIA-SEQUENCE:0
#EXT-X-KEY:METHOD=AES-128,URI="720.key",IV=0x2f1fb3a9fd334f2babb6cc77f77 53129
#EXTINF:10.000000,
720_00000.ts
#EXTINF:10.000000,
720_00001.ts
#EXTINF:10.000000,
720_00002.ts
#EXTINF:10.000000,
720_00003.ts
#EXTINF:8.733333,
720_00004.ts
#EXT-X-ENDLIST

[ponens]

Read the sproutvideo threads, here and here.

Or, don't mask the url to your video as you have done in your post, if you want specific help with that video.

[j3321202]

Read the sproutvideo threads, here and here.

Or, don't mask the url to your video as you have done in your post, if you want specific help with that video.

streamlink is not working

I've captured the iframe to jsfiddle: https://jsfiddle.net/uzoh0stg/, you can try it out...

Also, I cannot visit the site by TubeDigger, I don't know why...

[ponens]

Play the embed url from the iframe in chrome browser with ios user agent setting.

Watch network traffic for "mp?" url.

Then use streamlink with user agent header.

streamlink.exe --http-header "User-Agent=Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/67.0.3396.87 Safari/537.36" "hlsvariant://https://videos.sproutvideo.com/mp?url=https%3A%2F%2Fhls2.videos.sproutvideo.com%2F4c6ae9f9a46c5272b1cc754718064aa7%2Fb24db851c76caf337fd636f339bd6301%2Fvideo%2Findex.m3u8&expires=1529196515&signature=y%2BVn0W%2B%2BSVh23vY3iXX0J6WOc9A%3D" best -o output.ts

[j3321202]

Play the embed url from the iframe in chrome browser with ios user agent setting.

Watch network traffic for "mp?" url.

Then use streamlink with user agent header.

streamlink.exe --http-header "User-Agent=Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/67.0.3396.87 Safari/537.36" "hlsvariant://https://videos.sproutvideo.com/mp?url=https%3A%2F%2Fhls2.videos.sproutvideo.com%2F4c6ae9f9a46c5272b1cc754718064aa7%2Fb24db851c76caf337fd636f339bd6301%2Fvideo%2Findex.m3u8&expires=1529196515&signature=y%2BVn0W%2B%2BSVh23vY3iXX0J6WOc9A%3D" best -o output.ts

It works, that's so clever thank you . I wondering why do we need to change the User-Agent to IOS, since I can still get the mp? without changing it.

[essam_yehia]

many thanks for this info and sharing your experience.

could you please help me getting "mp?" URL from the following embedded link, as I tried many times but couldn't get it:

https://videos.sproutvideo.com/embed/189adeb61f1ce7c490/38ee36fedc55623d

[jimdagys]

could you please help me getting "mp?" URL from the following embedded link, as I tried many times but couldn't get it:

Two questions:
1) Why when I click on above link using Chrome or Firefox, (see below screenshots), I get unauthorized error, but when I open new browser and paste in link, I can watch video?
2) If poster wanted to post above link so that it was clickable to watch the video (instead of getting error), how would he do it?

I used Tubedigger and downloaded video. Sorry I didn't answer your mp question.
Link to video:
https://files.videohelp.com/u/61125/ck.mp4

[jagabo]

1) Why when I click on above link using Chrome or Firefox, (see below screenshots), I get unauthorized error, but when I open new browser and paste in link, I can watch video?

The HTTP referer field. When you click on the link here the referer is videohelp.com... If you paste the link into a new browser there is no referer.

[jimdagys]

Thank you for answering question #1.
I have two more questions:
3) Is this limitation (not being able to click on the link) imposed by the sprouts video website?
4) Might there be a converse case where ONLY the link can be clickable from a certain website (and copy/paste into new browser would not work, and click link from another website would also not work)? If so, how would a person post such a video link for others to watch video?

Waiting for answer to question #2. I think that is an important question, since the average computer user would not know to copy/paste url into new browser. When they click on the link and get error, they would just give up. It would be useful to be able to post a link that is clickable in all cases.

[jagabo]

2) If poster wanted to post above link so that it was clickable to watch the video (instead of getting error), how would he do it?

I don't think you can do it here. But if you have control of a web site you can do it.

https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/27906/playing-with-referrer-header#27916

3) Is this limitation (not being able to click on the link) imposed by the sprouts video website?

Yes.

4) Might there be a converse case where ONLY the link can be clickable from a certain website (and copy/paste into new browser would not work, and click link from another website would also not work)?

Yes. We already covered this:

https://forum.videohelp.com/threads/389365-Getting-video-link-from-URL-to-feed-livestr...er#post2522541

If so, how would a person post such a video link for others to watch video?

Again, you would have to have control of the web site. I don't think videohelp has any mechanism that would let you specify the referer field when you post a link.

[stasha]

Play the embed url from the iframe in chrome browser with ios user agent setting.

Watch network traffic for "mp?" url.

Then use streamlink with user agent header.

streamlink.exe --http-header "User-Agent=Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/67.0.3396.87 Safari/537.36" "hlsvariant://https://videos.sproutvideo.com/mp?url=https%3A%2F%2Fhls2.videos.sproutvideo.com%2F4c6ae9f9a46c5272b1cc754718064aa7%2Fb24db851c76caf337fd636f339bd6301%2Fvideo%2Findex.m3u8&expires=1529196515&signature=y%2BVn0W%2B%2BSVh23vY3iXX0J6WOc9A%3D" best -o output.ts

hi ponens and everybody,

i used to do exactly what you suggesting and be able to download videos from sproutvideo. however, not any longer! today i switch chrome to iphone or ipad user agent, look for "mp?" and guess what? ... don't find it! not only that, the video won't play with that agent, indefinitely clocking! any ideas on this please?
any other way to download from sproutvideo?

thank you in advanvce!

[ghemos]

Yes, yes, yes: the problem is that the link with /mp? is no longer there. Something was modified by sprout recently. So: a new workaround? Need help! Thanks.

[jimdagys]

Give the url to the sproutvideo you are trying to download. I'll see if Tubedigger will download it.

[ghemos]

Tubedigger will download it. I`ve tested. Yet, would be nice a new workaround, for a free solution. The one with /mp? was working just great (for 1-2 years for me).

[LZAA]

Need link.

[stasha]

Any news on free options to sproutvideo downloads? There were so many folks here to advise, and now its 6 months silence

[marlonfpessoa]

Any solution? here's the video link I'd like to download.

https://videos.sproutvideo.com/embed/e89adfb21f10e3c560/f201eb1fecb9b088?signature=TPL...686906&type=hd


help!

[LZAA]

Need URL.

[marlonfpessoa]

Didn't read my post?

[blimey]

Didn't read my post?

The URL of the webpage that contains, or allows the acquisition of, the embed url.

[taleporos]

I am dealing with almost the same problem. I am using a streaming application that works only on windows. I've managed to find the log file ( https://pastebin.com/XBrHEHL8 ) in order to get the streaming link: http://212.205.188.205:80/88888888/16/20190614/268481879/5.m3u8

I run the

streamlink http://212.205.188.205:80/88888888/16/20190614/268481879/5.m3u8 best

command but i got the following

[stream.hls][error] Failed to create decryptor: Unable to open URL: https://ipca.ott.otenet.gr/CAB/keyfile?s=1096&r=OTE0000014487OTT&t=VOD&p=0&Kd=6E6ACC86...2DF403435AD960 (HTTPSConnectionPool(host='ipca.ott.otenet.gr', port=443): Max retries exceeded with url: /CAB/keyfile?s=1096&r=OTE0000014487OTT&t=VOD&p=0&Kd=6E6ACC8659C593E6192C45C209911172&Kc=50D4944C8E8A11E9A52DF403435AD960 (Caused by SSLError(SSLError(1, '[SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed (_ssl.c:645)'),)))
[cli][error] Try 1/1: Could not open stream <HLSStream('http://212.205.188.205:80/88888888/16/20190614/268481879/5.m3u8')> (No data returned from stream)
error: Could not open stream <HLSStream('http://212.205.188.205:80/88888888/16/20190614/268481879/5.m3u8')>, tried 1 times, exiting

In order to run the application, I have to login via Chrome (using HULA VPN) and find the link from the applications website. The link forwards me to the application for the streaming. Any clues how to get properly the key?

[LZAA]

Need link.

[taleporos]

Need link.

of? http://212.205.188.205:80/88888888/16/20190614/268481879/5.m3u8

The website's link isn't useful you cannot see anything without the username/password. It doesn't even stream via the website, if you press the play button it opens the application itself

[LZAA]

Need link & accces.