How to Download Flowplayer Videos

Downloading the Video

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   Check to see if the video can be downloaded. If you have Firefox installed on your computer, you can use it to look for a downloadable video on a page; this can save you time when trying to find and download the video via its source code later:

   1. Open Firefox.
   2. Go to the website on which your Flowplayer video is hosted.
   3. Play the video if it doesn't begin playing.
   4. Right-click (or Control-click on a Mac) a blank place on the page.
   5. Click View Page Info in the drop-down menu.
   6. Click the Media tab.
   7. Scroll through the results, looking for a "Video" option in the "Type" column. If you see a video listed on the page, you can proceed with the rest of this method; if not, you most likely can't download the video.
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   Open

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   Google Chrome. Click or double-click the Chrome app icon, which resembles a red, yellow, green, and blue ball.
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   Go to the page with the Flowplayer video. In your web browser, go to the page that has the Flowplayer video you want to download.
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   Right-click on an empty space on the page. Outside of the video in an empty space on the webpage, right-click with the mouse to open a drop-down window.

   1. For computers with a trackpad, click the trackpad with two fingers to perform a right-click. Mac users can also hold down Control while clicking.
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   Click View Page Source. This will display the code for the website in a new window.
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   Click ⋮. It's in the top-right corner. This will open a drop-down menu.
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   Click Find. This will display a search bar in the upper-right corner.

   1. You can also type Ctrl+F on Windows or ⌘ Command+F on a Mac to quickly start a search as well
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   Search for the video tag. Type into the search bar and then click the

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   down arrow to the right to go to the first place in the page this code appears.

   1. If searching for "" returns no results in the page, you can also search for source to look for the correct section of the code.
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   Look for the video's source URL. The source URL should resemble something similar to the following code:

   <video> <source type="application/x-mpegurl" src="//www.website.com/video.m3u8"> <source type="video/mp4" src="//www.website.com/video.mp4"> video> 

   1. Instead of "www.website.com" this will most likely display the site you're currently on, and instead of video.mp4 this will the filename of the video.
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    Open the video's page. Click the URL after the src=" section that ends with in video format such as .mp4. For example, in the previous code example, you would click the following to open the video in a new tab:

    //www.website.com/video.mp4 

    1. In some cases, you must double-click the URL, press Ctrl+C (Windows) or ⌘ Command+C (Mac) to copy it, paste the URL into the address bar by pressing Ctrl+V or ⌘ Command+V, and then press ↵ Enter.
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    Click

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    . It's the down arrow icon on the bottom-right of the video player. This will automatically start downloading the video.

    1. If you don't see the download button, you can right-click on the video and select Save video as... to download the video.
    2. In some cases, you must first click ⋮ in the lower-right side of the player and then click Download there.