I’m trying to download some videos from dropbox that the account owner has disabled downloads for. Are there any tools or methods to bypass this and download them anyway other than screen recording?
this is iffy, but you can use the inspector and try to find which of the files is the video you want, then download those manually. Less iffy, use obs-studio and record the videos like how we used to do music in cassettes (in real time).
You can try using inspect element and see if the links to ths video files are available that way.
I’d start with disabling JavaScript, reload the page, then right click and see if you can save the file.
Next up would be an M3U downloaded plugin in your browser.
Last up would be YT-DLP.
When I disabled javascript I got a pure white page. Can you recommend an M3U downloader plugin for firefox? I’ve never heard of them before. I tried yt-dlp and it said no video formats found
Video Download Helper used be gold standard but now require companion app. HLS Downloader might better, but never test that one.
Can also go to network anaylsis tab of devtool and looks for mp4 or m3u8 link, then paste to yt-dlp for download. Usually just work. Maybe need Referer header using
--add-headers "Referer:..."from request.
if its ok could you link that file here? i’ve never seen such example so can’t tell but i doubt they have strong (or any) drm
Have you tried using JDownloader? Copy paste the URL to it, and see if it can scan and find the video. Not sure if that would work, but there’s a good chance.
If it doesn’t work, try yt-dlp.
