browser - How do we download a blob url video

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I just came up with a general solution, which should work on most websites. I tried this on Chrome only, but this method should work with any other browser, though, as Dev Tools are pretty much the same in them all.

Steps:

1. Open the browser's Dev Tools (usually F12, or Ctrl-Shift-I, or right-click and then Inspect in the popup menu) on the page with the video you are interested in.
2. Go to Network tab and then reload the page. The tab will get populated with a list of requests (may be up to a hundred of them or even more).
3. Search through the names of requests and find the request with .m3u8 extension. There may be many of them, but most likely the first you find is the one you are looking for. It may have any name, e.g. playlist.m3u8.
4. Open the request and under Headers subsection you will see request's full URL in Request URL field. Copy it.
5. Extract the video from m3u8. There are many ways to do it, I'll give you those I tried, but you can google more by "download video from m3u8".
   • Option 1. If you have VLC player installed, feed the URL to VLC using "Open Network Stream..." menu option. I'm not going to go into details on this part here, there are a number of comprehensive guides in many places, for example, here. If the page doesn't work, you can always google another one by "vlc download online video".
   • Option 2. If you are more into command line, use FFMPEG or your own script, as directed in this SuperUser question.