Add vidyard support

[k4rtik]

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If the purpose of this issue is a site support request please provide all kinds of example URLs support for which should be included (replace following example URLs by yours):

Vidyard homepage: https://www.vidyard.com/

• Single video: ~~http://play.vidyard.com/MYsNEfzgpaB4w8xGWL2g7A~~
• Same video embedded on another site: ~~https://www.purestorage.com/otb/ep1.html~~
• Downloadable link to the same video: ~~http://cdn.vidyard.com/videos/Tty5gmS1jK8gPPatNZSCRg/full_hd.mp4?5R1bEOiBmTPTd29ZHp6WJbAB2_2Ffz6As5zIVJlFfEBx5r0B6ZGGus0ZpcRiljHOZi7zRLk4BSgvU5-1SIv7pJHEfwz6XHojWyhk0kwVpPMqF94~~
• ~~Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4lCao7KL_QFVb7Iudeipvc2BCavECqzc~~

Edit: These all 404 now, see link in the comment below.

[mih-kopylov]

Another video: https://play.vidyard.com/wVn1pCABE7RbkAHm6vNuFu.html

[lofidevops]

Here is an example of an embedded vidyard video:

~~https://tidelift.com/subscription/webinar/watch/idc/thank-you~~ (no longer available see more examples below)

Attempted download with version 2020.09.06:

[generic] thank-you: Requesting header
WARNING: Falling back on generic information extractor.
[generic] thank-you: Downloading webpage
[generic] thank-you: Extracting information
ERROR: Unsupported URL: https://tidelift.com/subscription/webinar/watch/idc/thank-you

[boschkundendienst]

Another example, don't know how long it will be up:

https://em.barracuda.com/dc/kQ4nJk0QPyKZ4SUJ7_SxXt5LxMtfeeBvSLuLU1XILns8CEPhzxEdmypT2QgdyO0BZ01AtlyQVDnRh-S_bbbY8AW97JajKGaDYYVqx7MGKk7ZIIuNa_8vwImzCaexv8AP/U1mC0bC02K0BmI01sV000Oj

youtube-dl 'https://em.barracuda.com/dc/kQ4nJk0QPyKZ4SUJ7_SxXt5LxMtfeeBvSLuLU1XILns8CEPhzxEdmypT2QgdyO0BZ01AtlyQVDnRh-S_bbbY8AW97JajKGaDYYVqx7MGKk7ZIIuNa_8vwImzCaexv8AP/U1mC0bC02K0BmI01sV000Oj'
[generic] U1mC0bC02K0BmI01sV000Oj: Requesting header
WARNING: Falling back on generic information extractor.
[generic] U1mC0bC02K0BmI01sV000Oj: Downloading webpage
[generic] U1mC0bC02K0BmI01sV000Oj: Extracting information
ERROR: Unsupported URL: https://em.barracuda.com/dc/kQ4nJk0QPyKZ4SUJ7_SxXt5LxMtfeeBvSLuLU1XILns8CEPhzxEdmypT2QgdyO0BZ01AtlyQVDnRh-S_bbbY8AW97JajKGaDYYVqx7MGKk7ZIIuNa_8vwImzCaexv8AP/U1mC0bC02K0BmI01sV000Oj

youtube-dl --version
2021.01.16

[saviour123]

Since 2016, this issue is still opened? did anyone get a fix? I want to download this vid -https://play.vidyard.com/ZKXHwfjf1MtezrxwjKGs5h

[matiya]

I can download from vidyard, but I believe there is an access control mechanism that checks the Referer HTTP header.

For instance:

youtube-dl "https://cdn.vidyard.com/hls-videos/wYIcVOmXXMuf1hAslXUlOw/stream_master_6u7VYEhHHbx5aZtD4wGGrQ.m3u8" --add-header "Referer: https://play.vidyard.com/"

[saviour123]

youtube-dl https://play.vidyard.com/ZKXHwfjf1MtezrxwjKGs5h --add-header "Referer: https://play.vidyard.com/"

@matiya this is not working for me

[matiya]

For that video, the following should work:

youtube-dl "https://cdn.vidyard.com/hls-videos/ArwxsclFb9I2YAILazF3LA/sd_segmented/sd_segmented_zXn2vRofmYWaDPMN46AfNA.m3u8" --add-header "Referer: https://play.vidyard.com"

I'm not an expert, but I think the .m3u8 is a playlist and in order to get it, you can open the network connections in the developer tools of the browser.

I believe youtube-dl could automate this.

[johnnyxmas]

Yep; all youtube-dl needs to do is find the stream_master URL (i.e. https://cdn.vidyard.com/hls-videos/fWSBwUuZPHpnh3HhjgXzFg/stream_master_5ZbxuIQGkGsDiBvSQ11C-Q.m3u8?BMvc0VjC4BMUKTj2kp0sz-7Tva-ygg0y7o0M1bNkWHCAlnjxRXi-uIaLfF7OCXSB0viEpLnWYajbdHVIvHLsdGJMldvdLGjH10hURA20YLMFbpWpjOvHL_MUl5-e8KDeq6RxHBt56ZJiDwED78K6wja50vizr5wBPV6c6sB58lFlvCODqmimPaFC6QgAQSHX9AWC) then add the referrer (--add-header "Referer: https://play.vidyard.com") and it should always work. Just confirmed with several URLs:

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[jnahmias]

Here's another url: https://play.vidyard.com/urAKCbwcLunhRfGdnQt2rT.html The command-line that worked for me:

youtube-dl 'https://cdn.vidyard.com/media/hls/mHt17oCX28b7JMxgtAtYBA/,full_hd,hd,480p,sd,.mp4.urlset/index-f2-v1-a1.m3u8' --add-header "Referer: https://play.vidyard.com/urAKCbwcLunhRfGdnQt2rT.html"

[stanislavkozlovski]

Ditto. The way to do it seems to be to access the video playback from DevTools (Chrome) and see what URL the network is sending requests for segment-{NUMBER}. Then you replace it in the download section as @jnahmias showed - the unique ID that's in the network goes to the first url, and the original .html ID goes as the referrer

[basaran]

Searching for master.m3u8 in devtools worked fine. You can observe the headers needed there. Just the referer was sufficient for me.

[jnahmias]

actually, it's much easier to get the URL from the vidyard JSON. For example, using curl and jq:

$ curl --silent --show-error --fail https://play.vidyard.com/player/urAKCbwcLunhRfGdnQt2rT.json | jq -r '.payload.chapters[0].sources.mp4[] | select(.profile == "1080p") | .url'
https://cdn.vidyard.com/videos/mHt17oCX28b7JMxgtAtYBA/full_hd.mp4?WacwzqupUNYvK0u-RpqrcdDCnv6gMO-LW8uWAI3bHLpHfksSB_jpJakZfu7R2FZxRU_C6xnSAuMhoMvO_NoE4g4280IX28KUjifG9xn6oBrTdX-n1fTyhFV69hywKbQsxZJ8uF_1QgjNkLhKtqEz4Nw

Note: you may need to change 1080p to 720p or another resolution, if the higher ones aren't available.

Then you just download that URL with an appropriate referrer:

$ curl --head --referer https://play.vidyard.com/ https://cdn.vidyard.com/videos/mHt17oCX28b7JMxgtAtYBA/full_hd.mp4?WacwzqupUNYvK0u-RpqrcdDCnv6gMO-LW8uWAI3bHLpHfksSB_jpJakZfu7R2FZxRU_C6xnSAuMhoMvO_NoE4g4280IX28KUjifG9xn6oBrTdX-n1fTyhFV69hywKbQsxZJ8uF_1QgjNkLhKtqEz4Nw
HTTP/2 200 
content-type: video/mp4
content-length: 1558179927
x-amz-id-2: iz0w+n6ZLpMjJIKoKldpyPq7HBDeYSa1WyQj/EUyq7HCvZNTxTsP16Uq0AbpEb2ZAaw26ChwNU4=
x-amz-request-id: 6EBDV6Y54JR5C90R
date: Tue, 04 Jul 2023 21:14:18 GMT
last-modified: Fri, 23 Jul 2021 20:31:32 GMT
etag: "e995e2345abc4224649e7f830768fa98-298"
x-amz-storage-class: GLACIER_IR
x-amz-server-side-encryption: AES256
content-disposition: attachment
x-amz-version-id: WFrigakfilZPROrqupngELRYA8H9.Iau
accept-ranges: bytes
server: AmazonS3
x-cache: Miss from cloudfront
via: 1.1 957a0e737a088bdc07cb5cc9dcc9e826.cloudfront.net (CloudFront)
x-amz-cf-pop: EWR53-P1
x-amz-cf-id: D25vNCPQsiXUWCI2NXgXteK2wEpGch_FybYxKLRsJE2uZo0cVqVLsg==
x-cdn: cloudfront
vary: Origin

Note: remove the --head to actually download the file.