yt-dlp download request being redirected

[Axel Slingerland]

Is there a way to prevent a website from redirecting to a different video to download than the one you requested?

[LZAA]

Url?

[Axel Slingerland]

This episode https://www.cwtv.com/shows/the-flash/negative-part-two works.
https://www.cwtv.com/shows/the-flash/negative-part-one, or any other earlier episode in the series, redirects to https://www.cwtv.com/shows/the-flash/negative-part-two

Edit: No matter what other episode I try to download, I get something similar to this. Sorry it's so big, I have low vision and have to increase the font quite a bit to read it, so I had to cut and paste two parts together...


[Attachment 65692 - Click to enlarge]

Thanks for your assistance!

[jack_666]

I must be doing something wrong because I get the video that I requested.

yt-dlp --no-part --restrict-filenames --user-agent "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/103.0.0.0 Safari/537.36" --referer "https://player.theplatform.com/" --output "The Flash Video - Negative, Part One _ Stream Free.%(ext)s" "https://11ca87fb964b4c7492913ba4fc831636.dlvr1.net/nosec/The_CW/760/821/142530629776/1655837516221-TheFlash-819-NegativePartOne-T2714819-CW.m3u8"

[[ss]vegeta]

I must be doing something wrong because I get the video that I requested.

lol

@Axel, feed yt-dlp the m3u8 link, not the url of the video.

[Axel Slingerland]

lol

Yeah... I seem to get a lot of sarcastic posts like that. But I'm used to it and do my best to ignore people like that. I have better things to do with my time than waste it on people with an attitude.

@Axel, feed yt-dlp the m3u8 link, not the url of the video.

As you may recall my saying that I have low vision. There are things on my computer screen that I can make bigger, and more that I can't. That is one of the things I can't. A reality I face every day is that if I can't see something, I can't work with it. Unfortunately, I'm finally getting used to that.

However, that redirect is something new since last week. I've been downloading these videos the same way I previously described for the past two years. If there is no way to prevent the redirection, I guess that's the end of that, and it will be one episode at a time from now on. If I remember to download them every week... If not, oh well. C'est la vie!

[[ss]vegeta]

There are things on my computer screen that I can make bigger, and more that I can't. That is one of the things I can't.

You can zoom in developer tools. Looks pretty big to me

[Attachment 65696 - Click to enlarge]
Also, I can download for you and send you a link. Just drop me a private message whenever you need it.
Or we can just paste you the m3u8 here, you can copy paste it fine?

[Axel Slingerland]

Thanks! But I do have to say... You call that big?

I have to set the zoom like this:


[Attachment 65710 - Click to enlarge]

And even that is a bit blurry. But if I zoom in any more, the name field disappears...

[[ss]vegeta]

The Windows built-in magnifier doesn't work for you?

[LZAA]

youtube-dl --hls-prefer-native "https://www.cwtv.com/shows/the-flash/negative-part-one/?play=f97687d0-3f4e-40be-89ac-d6030f0fbc41"
[CWTV] f97687d0-3f4e-40be-89ac-d6030f0fbc41: Downloading JSON metadata
[ThePlatform] f97687d0-3f4e-40be-89ac-d6030f0fbc41: Downloading SMIL data
[ThePlatform] f97687d0-3f4e-40be-89ac-d6030f0fbc41: Downloading m3u8 information
[ThePlatform] f97687d0-3f4e-40be-89ac-d6030f0fbc41: Downloading m3u8 information
[ThePlatform] f97687d0-3f4e-40be-89ac-d6030f0fbc41: Downloading JSON metadata
[hlsnative] Downloading m3u8 manifest
[hlsnative] Total fragments: 413
[download] Destination: Negative, Part One-f97687d0-3f4e-40be-89ac-d6030f0fbc41.mp4
[download] 0.7% of ~2.31GiB at 1.94MiB/s ETA 24:46 ...

[Axel Slingerland]

The Windows built-in magnifier doesn't work for you?

It works, but Zoom and a customized layout works much better.