Help capturing from Fox.com.

[ehurdler]

Let me say, I have found a way to capture videos from fox.com since they made changes to their website. The process is rather long, but again, it does work. I was wondering if someone, anyone may be able to help to make the process easier and or faster.

Let me state, youtube-dl does work....but it also grabs the commercials and adds to final download.

Ok so here is my process.

This is for Fox's new show The Orville - s01e02 - https://www.fox.com/watch/3cecd74bcf...84a67c2bb1648/

Load video in question.
Got to Tools->Web Developer->Network
Use All Tab
Filter URLs - Search for link.

You will find for example:

https://link.theplatform.com/s/fox-dcg/media/rTAuVMt2lj_p?format=redirect&formats=m3u&assetTypes=uplynk-clean:uplynk-ivod-west:uplynk-ivod-mountain:uplynk-ivod-east:uplynk-ivod&sitesection=app.dcg-foxnow/web/fox&adenv=fw_prod

Take the number string after /media/ in the url, in this case “rTAuVMt2lj_p” add between /media/ and ?

https://link.theplatform.com/s/fox-dcg/media/rTAuVMt2lj_p?mbr=true&manifest=m3u&formats=MPEG4,FLV,M3U&format=SMIL

Paste in browser. Hit enter. Will download a file “rTAuVMt2lj_p”.
Open this file in a text editor.
Now look for

<param name="testPlayerUrl" value="http://content.uplynk.com/player5/6BMB892QnCASKGD1s1jgmIsa.html"/>

Change User Agent to iPhone 3, also Disable Flash. Now Paste url into browser, start playing the video.

Once starts streaming you can either save video of choice with “Video DownloadHelper”
Or you can copy the string from the video you would download with Video Download Helper into ffmpeg
Examples below:

ffmpeg -i "https://content-auso3.uplynk.com/6c68ec3ffc3c4df7972591ba15629fcf/j.m3u8?cid=6c68ec3ffc3c4df7972591ba15629fcf&oid=d8e6eec26bf544f084bad49a7fa2eac5&exp=1505767774&rn=3533087049&tc=1&ct=a&sig=e622eb6e2b90ad8d2ba82a16b0fc7023cc9e086cb3dde5ce0847ac3d43aba84d&pbs=0930c744592849efab20b8155b32bb87" -c:a copy -c:v copy "OUTPUT2.ts"


ffmpeg -i "https://content-ausc1.uplynk.com/6c68ec3ffc3c4df7972591ba15629fcf/j.m3u8?cid=6c68ec3ffc3c4df7972591ba15629fcf&oid=d8e6eec26bf544f084bad49a7fa2eac5&exp=1505770655&rn=1539958891&tc=1&ct=a&sig=66a38b69a01a32ecfc3d02f5305c62aa9df37404fe573726e6c42fb82986595e&pbs=93612c07ddd945b0b8b8ca314df9a02c" -c copy -absf aac_adtstoasc "name of file.mp4"

This works, I guess since it is reaching back to the "crypto server"/"key file" this is why the process is so slow? The process if you strictly use "Video DownloadHelper" takes maybe 10 minutes. The full process above takes 20-30 minutes. I wish i knew how Video DownloadHelper did the process so much faster.

Example of what ffmpeg spits out every few seconds:

[hls,applehttp @ 0x7f86fd800000] Opening 'crypto+https://stgec-ausw.uplynk.com/80C078/ausw/slices/6c6/d8e6eec26bf544f084bad49a7fa2eac5/6c68ec3ffc3c4df7972591ba15629fcf/J00000089.ts?pbs=93612c07ddd945b0b8b8ca314df9a02c&si=0' for reading

If anyone can help, point to a different way, or anything please respond or even PM me. Thank you!