Download help for a .m3u8 link

[Luffy003]

URL : https://frontendmasters.com/courses/algorithms/introduction/
This is an Open and free course.... to watch and persue but if i wanna download i get this .m3u8 link in nettworks tab

URL: https://stream.frontendmasters.com/2022/09/12/aPVwjxMZsP/MkEeIchlVZ/index_1440p_Q10_9mbps.m3u8

but if i try to download using N_m3u8DL-RE i get this error !! how to fix it :

[N_m3u8DL-RE -M format=mp4 --check-segments-count false https://stream.frontendmasters.com/2022/09/12/aPVwjxMZsP/MkEeIchlVZ/index_1440p_Q10_9mbps.m3u8
15:47:18.065 INFO : N_m3u8DL-RE (Beta version) 20230628
15:47:18.073 INFO : Loading URL: https://stream.frontendmasters.com/2022/09/12/aPVwjxMZsP/MkEeIchlVZ/index_1440p_Q10_9mbps.m3u8
15:47:18.201 ERROR: One or more errors occurred. (Response status code does not indicate success: 403 (Forbidden).)]

If anyone can help ?? please tell me what am i doing wrong here

[CrymanChen]

Did you try to add the referer to the program itself?

--referer <YOUR REFERER>

or

-H "Referer: <YOUR REFERER>"

Sometimes you need to add the Origin or Host domain to make it work.

[Silv3r]

URL : https://frontendmasters.com/courses/algorithms/introduction/
This is an Open and free course.... to watch and persue but if i wanna download i get this .m3u8 link in nettworks tab

URL: https://stream.frontendmasters.com/2022/09/12/aPVwjxMZsP/MkEeIchlVZ/index_1440p_Q10_9mbps.m3u8

but if i try to download using N_m3u8DL-RE i get this error !! how to fix it :

[N_m3u8DL-RE -M format=mp4 --check-segments-count false https://stream.frontendmasters.com/2022/09/12/aPVwjxMZsP/MkEeIchlVZ/index_1440p_Q10_9mbps.m3u8
15:47:18.065 INFO : N_m3u8DL-RE (Beta version) 20230628
15:47:18.073 INFO : Loading URL: https://stream.frontendmasters.com/2022/09/12/aPVwjxMZsP/MkEeIchlVZ/index_1440p_Q10_9mbps.m3u8
15:47:18.201 ERROR: One or more errors occurred. (Response status code does not indicate success: 403 (Forbidden).)]

If anyone can help ?? please tell me what am i doing wrong here

Missing Key-Pair-Id query parameter or cookie value

[aqzs]

URL : https://frontendmasters.com/courses/algorithms/introduction/
This is an Open and free course.... to watch and persue but if i wanna download i get this .m3u8 link in nettworks tab

URL: https://stream.frontendmasters.com/2022/09/12/aPVwjxMZsP/MkEeIchlVZ/index_1440p_Q10_9mbps.m3u8

but if i try to download using N_m3u8DL-RE i get this error !! how to fix it :

[N_m3u8DL-RE -M format=mp4 --check-segments-count false https://stream.frontendmasters.com/2022/09/12/aPVwjxMZsP/MkEeIchlVZ/index_1440p_Q10_9mbps.m3u8
15:47:18.065 INFO : N_m3u8DL-RE (Beta version) 20230628
15:47:18.073 INFO : Loading URL: https://stream.frontendmasters.com/2022/09/12/aPVwjxMZsP/MkEeIchlVZ/index_1440p_Q10_9mbps.m3u8
15:47:18.201 ERROR: One or more errors occurred. (Response status code does not indicate success: 403 (Forbidden).)]

If anyone can help ?? please tell me what am i doing wrong here

You can take the index.m3u8 link, no header or something needed.

N_m3u8DL-RE "https://static.frontendmasters.com/assets/videos/promo/lVkPBqUpNw/hls/index.m3u8"
13:45:19.417 INFO : N_m3u8DL-RE (Beta version) 20230628
13:45:19.427 INFO : Loading URL: https://static.frontendmasters.com/assets/videos/promo/lVkPBqUpNw/hls/index.m3u8
13:45:19.593 INFO : Content Matched: HTTP Live Streaming
13:45:19.593 INFO : Parsing streams...
13:45:19.593 WARN : Master List detected, try parse all streams
13:45:19.601 WARN : Writing meta json
13:45:19.601 INFO : Extracted, there are 5 streams, with 5 basic streams, 0 audio streams, 0 subtitle streams
13:45:19.601 INFO : Vid 3840x2160 | 1911 Kbps | 29.97 | avc1.4d4033,mp4a.40.2
13:45:19.601 INFO : Vid 2560x1440 | 1046 Kbps | 29.97 | avc1.4d4032,mp4a.40.2
13:45:19.601 INFO : Vid 1920x1080 | 756 Kbps | 29.97 | avc1.4d4028,mp4a.40.2
13:45:19.601 INFO : Vid 1280x720 | 368 Kbps | 29.97 | avc1.4d401f,mp4a.40.2
13:45:19.602 INFO : Vid 640x360 | 237 Kbps | 29.97 | avc1.77.30,mp4a.40.2
13:45:23.423 INFO : Parsing streams...
13:45:23.474 INFO : Selected streams:
13:45:23.474 INFO : Vid 3840x2160 | 1911 Kbps | 29.97 | avc1.4d4033,mp4a.40.2 | 
335 Segments | ~16m44s
13:45:23.474 WARN : Writing meta json
13:45:23.475 INFO : Save Name: index_2024-05-29_13-45-19
13:45:23.477 INFO : Start downloading...Vid 3840x2160 | 1911 Kbps | 29.97 | 
avc1.4d4033,mp4a.40.2
13:45:24.906 WARN : Reading [url=https://www.videohelp.com/software/MediaInfo]media info[/url]...                                       
13:45:25.027 INFO : [0x1e1]: Video, h264 (Main) ([27][0][0][0]), 3840x2160,     
29.97 fps2160 | 1911 Kbps | 29.97 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━   0% - 0.00Bps(1) 00:07:56 ⣻
13:45:25.028 INFO : [0x1e2]: Audio, aac (LC) ([15][0][0][0]), 96 kb/s           
                                                                                                                     
Vid 3840x2160 | 1911 Kbps | 29.97 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━  83% 199.12MB/241.69MB 3.96MBps 00:00:08 ⣾

If you get :

Error opening input files: Too many open files

Merge by hand, go to the folder and :

for f in *.ts; do echo "file '$f'" >> file_list.txt; done

ffmpeg -f concat -safe 0 -i file_list.txt -c copy output.mkv

https://www.swisstransfer.com/d/fa4f68dd-61ad-4655-a6cc-273fcdca357a

[LZAA]

Url?

[Luffy003]

Did you try to add the referer to the program itself?

--referer <YOUR REFERER>

or

-H "Referer: <YOUR REFERER>"

Sometimes you need to add the Origin or Host domain to make it work.

No i id not try the referer .. also i am not aware about it .. maybe if u can guide what and how to ad .. or some source to dig up i will try this for sure

[Luffy003]

URL : https://frontendmasters.com/courses/algorithms/introduction/
This is an Open and free course.... to watch and persue but if i wanna download i get this .m3u8 link in nettworks tab

URL: https://stream.frontendmasters.com/2022/09/12/aPVwjxMZsP/MkEeIchlVZ/index_1440p_Q10_9mbps.m3u8

but if i try to download using N_m3u8DL-RE i get this error !! how to fix it :

[N_m3u8DL-RE -M format=mp4 --check-segments-count false https://stream.frontendmasters.com/2022/09/12/aPVwjxMZsP/MkEeIchlVZ/index_1440p_Q10_9mbps.m3u8
15:47:18.065 INFO : N_m3u8DL-RE (Beta version) 20230628
15:47:18.073 INFO : Loading URL: https://stream.frontendmasters.com/2022/09/12/aPVwjxMZsP/MkEeIchlVZ/index_1440p_Q10_9mbps.m3u8
15:47:18.201 ERROR: One or more errors occurred. (Response status code does not indicate success: 403 (Forbidden).)]

If anyone can help ?? please tell me what am i doing wrong here

Missing Key-Pair-Id query parameter or cookie value

Ya when i tried searching to make it work i came across both these terms but unaware from where to extract from the networks tab ... its been refent that i use the N3 also very new to dwonloading so there are quite a lot of thingz i dont know

[Luffy003]

URL : https://frontendmasters.com/courses/algorithms/introduction/
This is an Open and free course.... to watch and persue but if i wanna download i get this .m3u8 link in nettworks tab

URL: https://stream.frontendmasters.com/2022/09/12/aPVwjxMZsP/MkEeIchlVZ/index_1440p_Q10_9mbps.m3u8

but if i try to download using N_m3u8DL-RE i get this error !! how to fix it :

[N_m3u8DL-RE -M format=mp4 --check-segments-count false https://stream.frontendmasters.com/2022/09/12/aPVwjxMZsP/MkEeIchlVZ/index_1440p_Q10_9mbps.m3u8
15:47:18.065 INFO : N_m3u8DL-RE (Beta version) 20230628
15:47:18.073 INFO : Loading URL: https://stream.frontendmasters.com/2022/09/12/aPVwjxMZsP/MkEeIchlVZ/index_1440p_Q10_9mbps.m3u8
15:47:18.201 ERROR: One or more errors occurred. (Response status code does not indicate success: 403 (Forbidden).)]

If anyone can help ?? please tell me what am i doing wrong here

You can take the index.m3u8 link, no header or something needed.

N_m3u8DL-RE "https://static.frontendmasters.com/assets/videos/promo/lVkPBqUpNw/hls/index.m3u8"
13:45:19.417 INFO : N_m3u8DL-RE (Beta version) 20230628
13:45:19.427 INFO : Loading URL: https://static.frontendmasters.com/assets/videos/promo/lVkPBqUpNw/hls/index.m3u8
13:45:19.593 INFO : Content Matched: HTTP Live Streaming
13:45:19.593 INFO : Parsing streams...
13:45:19.593 WARN : Master List detected, try parse all streams
13:45:19.601 WARN : Writing meta json
13:45:19.601 INFO : Extracted, there are 5 streams, with 5 basic streams, 0 audio streams, 0 subtitle streams
13:45:19.601 INFO : Vid 3840x2160 | 1911 Kbps | 29.97 | avc1.4d4033,mp4a.40.2
13:45:19.601 INFO : Vid 2560x1440 | 1046 Kbps | 29.97 | avc1.4d4032,mp4a.40.2
13:45:19.601 INFO : Vid 1920x1080 | 756 Kbps | 29.97 | avc1.4d4028,mp4a.40.2
13:45:19.601 INFO : Vid 1280x720 | 368 Kbps | 29.97 | avc1.4d401f,mp4a.40.2
13:45:19.602 INFO : Vid 640x360 | 237 Kbps | 29.97 | avc1.77.30,mp4a.40.2
13:45:23.423 INFO : Parsing streams...
13:45:23.474 INFO : Selected streams:
13:45:23.474 INFO : Vid 3840x2160 | 1911 Kbps | 29.97 | avc1.4d4033,mp4a.40.2 | 
335 Segments | ~16m44s
13:45:23.474 WARN : Writing meta json
13:45:23.475 INFO : Save Name: index_2024-05-29_13-45-19
13:45:23.477 INFO : Start downloading...Vid 3840x2160 | 1911 Kbps | 29.97 | 
avc1.4d4033,mp4a.40.2
13:45:24.906 WARN : Reading [url=https://www.videohelp.com/software/MediaInfo]media info[/url]...                                       
13:45:25.027 INFO : [0x1e1]: Video, h264 (Main) ([27][0][0][0]), 3840x2160,     
29.97 fps2160 | 1911 Kbps | 29.97 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━   0% - 0.00Bps(1) 00:07:56 ⣻
13:45:25.028 INFO : [0x1e2]: Audio, aac (LC) ([15][0][0][0]), 96 kb/s           
                                                                                                                     
Vid 3840x2160 | 1911 Kbps | 29.97 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━  83% 199.12MB/241.69MB 3.96MBps 00:00:08 ⣾

If you get :

Error opening input files: Too many open files

Merge by hand, go to the folder and :

for f in *.ts; do echo "file '$f'" >> file_list.txt; done

ffmpeg -f concat -safe 0 -i file_list.txt -c copy output.mkv

https://www.swisstransfer.com/d/fa4f68dd-61ad-4655-a6cc-273fcdca357a

OOH thanks for the help ... but where did u get the link u used ... to download the video i could not find it on the networks tab ???

The urls i can see are :

URL1: https://stream.frontendmasters.com/2022/09/12/aPVwjxMZsP/MkEeIchlVZ/index.m3u8?Expires...B4SBTOPQN6G6BQ

URL2:
https://stream.frontendmasters.com/2022/09/12/aPVwjxMZsP/MkEeIchlVZ/index_1440p_Q10_9mbps.m3u8

and its .ts one for 1440 video quality

[Luffy003]

Url?

https://frontendmasters.com/courses/algorithms/introduction/ this is the URL its basically a free to access course ... its me who is keen to learn to download videos

[aqzs]

OOH thanks for the help ... incase u also can help me with the thingz others said to include or use .. on where to get them and how and when to use if u know would be great thanks for the help again

Just grab index.m3u8 and run :

N_m3u8DL-RE "https://static.frontendmasters.com/assets/videos/promo/lVkPBqUpNw/hls/index.m3u8"

[Luffy003]

OOH thanks for the help ... incase u also can help me with the thingz others said to include or use .. on where to get them and how and when to use if u know would be great thanks for the help again

Just grab index.m3u8 and run :

N_m3u8DL-RE "https://static.frontendmasters.com/assets/videos/promo/lVkPBqUpNw/hls/index.m3u8"

Sorry to disturb but i am unable to fin the inex.m3u8 url which u used all the.m3u8 i have are these
[Attachment 79440 - Click to enlarge]

sorry to keep pinging but if u can guide where to get the index.m3u8 it would be great

[aqzs]

sorry to keep pinging but if u can guide where to get the index.m3u8 it would be great

The first one on the list named "index.m3u8?Expires=....."

[Luffy003]

sorry to keep pinging but if u can guide where to get the index.m3u8 it would be great

The first one on the list named "index.m3u8?Expires=....."

Original : [https://stream.frontendmasters.com/2022/09/12/aPVwjxMZsP/MkEeIchlVZ/index.m3u8?Expires...4SBTOPQN6G6BQ]

I used the link uptill .m3u8 : [https://stream.frontendmasters.com/2022/09/12/aPVwjxMZsP/MkEeIchlVZ/index.m3u8]
But its different from the one u used [https://static.frontendmasters.com/assets/videos/promo/lVkPBqUpNw/hls/index.m3u8]

Got this on running :
[N_m3u8DL-RE https://stream.frontendmasters.com/2022/09/12/aPVwjxMZsP/MkEeIchlVZ/index.m3u8
21:50:27.781 INFO : N_m3u8DL-RE (Beta version) 20230628
21:50:27.790 INFO : Loading URL: https://stream.frontendmasters.com/2022/09/12/aPVwjxMZsP/MkEeIchlVZ/index.m3u8
21:50:27.906 ERROR: One or more errors occurred. (Response status code does not indicate success: 403 (Forbidden).)]

[aqzs]

Could you please run the command I tell you from the begging :

N_m3u8DL-RE "https://static.frontendmasters.com/assets/videos/promo/lVkPBqUpNw/hls/index.m3u8"

[Attachment 79441 - Click to enlarge]

[2nHxWW6GkN1l916N3ayz8HQoi]

Stream detector addon > index m3u8 link > copy as n_m3u8 / yt-dlp command > paste in cmd and run. You don't need to guess the right headers through trial and error. For most sites just doing that without caring at all about the command works. Especially if the m3u8 link uses tokens + it's faster.

[Luffy003]

Could you please run the command I tell you from the begging :

N_m3u8DL-RE "https://static.frontendmasters.com/assets/videos/promo/lVkPBqUpNw/hls/index.m3u8"

[Attachment 79441 - Click to enlarge]

Thanks for the Help it does run .. the one u provided .. its just that i couldnt find it on my networks tab .. so just asking how to retrieve the direct inex.m3u8 how did u do it ??

I already downloaded the video thanks to u

[aqzs]

Thanks for the Help it does run .. the one u provided .. its just that i couldnt find it on my networks tab .. so just asking how to retrieve the direct inex.m3u8 how did u do it ??

I already downloaded the video thanks to u

As pepe said you can install stream detector addon : for chrome/ium/for firefox.

You can get it by hand by opening network tab, then refreshing the page clicking play and searching for index :

[Attachment 79442 - Click to enlarge]

[Luffy003]

Thanks for the Help it does run .. the one u provided .. its just that i couldnt find it on my networks tab .. so just asking how to retrieve the direct inex.m3u8 how did u do it ??

I already downloaded the video thanks to u

As pepe said you can install stream detector addon : for chrome/ium/for firefox.

You can get it by hand by opening network tab, then refreshing the page clicking play and searching for index :

[Attachment 79442 - Click to enlarge]

Thats it thanks for the help pepe and All of u ... might have troubled a bit sorry for that

[Luffy003]

Stream detector addon > index m3u8 link > copy as n_m3u8 / yt-dlp command > paste in cmd and run. You don't need to guess the right headers through trial and error. For most sites just doing that without caring at all about the command works. Especially if the m3u8 link uses tokens + it's faster.

thanks again its all good

[2nHxWW6GkN1l916N3ayz8HQoi]

thanks again its all good

I was reading your original comment which was detailing a problem and after refresh it's gone. So... all good now? Just making sure.

[slayer36]

OOH thanks for the help ... incase u also can help me with the thingz others said to include or use .. on where to get them and how and when to use if u know would be great thanks for the help again

Just grab index.m3u8 and run :

N_m3u8DL-RE "https://static.frontendmasters.com/assets/videos/promo/lVkPBqUpNw/hls/index.m3u8"

are you trying on preview videos? as i see only preview videos have those https://static.frontendmasters.com, but if you login into the course, they have link like this https://stream.frontendmasters.com

[Luffy003]

thanks again its all good

I was reading your original comment which was detailing a problem and after refresh it's gone. So... all good now? Just making sure.

ya all good thanks for the help .... i was just saying as aqzs shared his networks tab u can clearly see the index.m3u8 in there but the tab i shared .. its the same every time on every reload ... i dont see the static .m3u8 link as him idk why all i see a url index.m3u8?expires one... so was asking why is it happening with me ... but the stream detector the static url

[aqzs]

thanks again its all good

I was reading your original comment which was detailing a problem and after refresh it's gone. So... all good now? Just making sure.

ya all good thanks for the help .... i was just saying as aqzs shared his networks tab u can clearly see the index.m3u8 in there but the tab i shared .. its the same every time on every reload ... i dont see the static .m3u8 link as him idk why all i see a url index.m3u8?expires one... so was asking why is it happening with me ... but the stream detector the static url

Maybe because I only tried on free course ?

[Luffy003]

thanks again its all good

I was reading your original comment which was detailing a problem and after refresh it's gone. So... all good now? Just making sure.

ya all good thanks for the help .... i was just saying as aqzs shared his networks tab u can clearly see the index.m3u8 in there but the tab i shared .. its the same every time on every reload ... i dont see the static .m3u8 link as him idk why all i see a url index.m3u8?expires one... so was asking why is it happening with me ... but the stream detector the static url

Maybe because I only tried on free course ?

i too tried on free course i dont have a subscription .. its just than i logged in created an account first .. i guess u did the same

[Luffy003]

thanks again its all good

I was reading your original comment which was detailing a problem and after refresh it's gone. So... all good now? Just making sure.

ya all good thanks for the help .... i was just saying as aqzs shared his networks tab u can clearly see the index.m3u8 in there but the tab i shared .. its the same every time on every reload ... i dont see the static .m3u8 link as him idk why all i see a url index.m3u8?expires one... so was asking why is it happening with me ... but the stream detector the static url

Maybe because I only tried on free course ?

check pm when u free !!

[aqzs]

check pm when u free !!

I can't answer via pm you didn't accept messages. I added you on discord based on the username you are using here since the one you send via pm doesn't work.

[Shadee]

check pm when u free !!

I can't answer via pm you didn't accept messages. I added you on discord based on the username you are using here since the one you send via pm doesn't work.

I sent you a private message earlier. Could you please check it? I also have a few questions and need your help with something..