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Now, depending on when you watch this, the technique might be slightly different, and this was done in 2020, so give or take few years, the settings may change. If it does, let me know in the comments below and I will update this page.
Now, let’s get started.
Let’s learn how to download Wistia videos in this blog post. Follow along all the steps given below. If there are any questions, or if you think this post helped you, please share this on your social media, and/or leave a comment below.
There are many websites that use and embed videos on the Wistia platform.
You may want to store offline for educational reasons or any other personal references.
It could be videos shared by your family members or friends, but downloading videos from Wistia and viewing it offline or for later reference is not straightforward.
That’s why in this blog post we will learn how to download Wistia videos hosted on any website.
In this above demo, I have used a real Wistia video player that has a video embedded. We’ll use the DevTools in Google Chrome to download videos from Wistia.
Just follow along the steps shown and you will start downloading your Wistia video.
Just continue reading, if you want to just read and prefer not to watch the video demo.
I used this sample Wistia video for this demo: https://moz.com/learn/seo/one-hour-guide-to-seo
2. The Chrome DevTools window opens up. It could be at the bottom or on your right side of the screen.
3. Now hit Ctrl or Cmd F on your keyboard to open the search bar, and then type ‘Embed/iframe’ under the ‘Elements’ tab. See screenshot below:
4. Next, double-click and copy the entire URL displayed there within quotes. So, in this example, I would copy starting from the https and till the video ID:
5. Open a new tab and paste that URL in your address bar. Hit the Enter/Return key. Now, the embedded Wistia video will be played full screen on your browser.
6. Let the video play once (hit the play button), and hit on F12 on your computer keyboard to open the Chrome DevTools once more. (or hit the keyboard shortcut Ctrl + Shift + I). If you are not able to find / open Chrome DevTools with the F12 or Ctrl + Shift + I keyboard shortcut, then goto Chrome’s 3-dot menu > choose More tools > Developer Tools.
7. This time, go under the ‘Sources’ tab. Click on the video ID given within this path: fast.wistia.net > embed/iframe > {click on the video id}. See sample screenshot below:
Hit on the Pretty-print if you find the HTML document gibberish.
8. Click inside the HTML document > hit on Ctrl F to bring up the search bar. Type in “mp4“.
You will start seeing different video formats rendered: 360p, 480p, 720p, 1080p – if the video has all these qualities available in that specific embed. Keep searching for the mp4 relevant to your needs. For example, in the screenshot given below, you’ll see the 1080p format available (this is Full HD format with better quality compared to lower resolution ones). Copy the .bin URL highlighted in the box below (the one with the yellow star with ‘3’ in it). Use ctrl+c or cmd+c to copy.
9. Paste that .bin URL in a new tab. Don’t hit the Enter/Return key yet. Change the .bin to .mp4. And now press the Enter key.
10. This opens up your Wistia video as a downloadable video. All you need to do now is click on the 3-dot menu and select Download (see screenshot below) to download your Wistia videos in Chrome. This is how we can download Wistia videos without any Chrome extension or any other third party software.
This may not work with all the Wistia videos due to copyrights or other policies in place but it may work on most of them. So, please respect copyright policies and be aware of any protected videos by the content owners. I only recommend this for your personal use and not misuse it for any illegal gains.
There are many websites that offer online free learning but not every site makes them available to be downloaded for offline or future reference.
In this guidepost, we will see how to download an embedded video from a website using the inspect element feature (Chrome Developer Tools). We don’t need to use any software, or Chrome Extension – with a few simple steps you will have your favorite video downloaded to your local computer.
Now, this won’t work on websites that are intentionally streaming videos for commercial reasons, such as tutorials, Netflix, Prime Video, YouTube, etc. More often than not, such websites encrypt or protect their videos for obvious reasons, as that’s their business model.
So, please protect copyright policies and don’t abuse this feature and use only for your personal and educational purposes.
I created a short video to show this technique rather than telling how to do.
Here’s how, watch it here:
Here’s how you can convert ePub to Mobi file format, so you could transfer your files to Kindle.
We will use an online converter so you do this job quickly and safely.
There are more online resources that get this job done (scroll down to the end to see more resources section), but for this we will use https://ebook.online-convert.com/convert-to-mobi
Go to https://ebook.online-convert.com/convert-to-mobi and click on ‘Choose Files‘ button to pick your ePub file from:
Alternatively, you could also drag your ePub file and drop it into that green area.
Click on ‘Start Conversion‘ button, after the upload is complete.
The conversion process begins and might take a few seconds or minutes (depending on how big your ePub file is)
Finally, the conversion gets completed and you can download the converted Mobi file either in a Zip format or directly as the Mobi file to your local folder.
This is how we could convert an ePub file to a Mobi file format. Once converted, you could transfer this Mobi file to your Kindle via a USB cable or send via email to your Kindle email ID – and start reading the Mobi file on your Kindle device.
Here are some other online conversion resources to convert an ePub to Mobi file format: