Force Download View Only Video From Microsoft Sharepoint / Streams

Background

There are some many teams meeting records shared by other teams, but only be available for 21 days, view only but no download. Hate it. 🙃🤨

Talk is cheap, show me the code.

Force downlaod from Share Point

Chrome/Edge(F12) -> Inspector -> Network -> videomanifest?privode

1. Open the Sharepoint page with the video you want to download

2. Press F12 or Ctrl + Shift + C on your keyboard to open the browser inspector. (Cmd + Option + C on Mac OS X)

3. In the top part, click on the Network tab

4. In the top left part - right below the Network tab - you should see a field with the word “Filter” inside it. Click it to gain focus and type: videomanifest

5. Refresh the Sharepoint page

6. After a few seconds you should now see 1 result in the browser inspector’s network part. That should be something looking like:
   videomanifest?provider=spo… => that right there is the manifest URL you will need later on. Right-click on it and copy the link address.

7. Use ffmpeg to download the video.

ffmpeg -i "https://theURLtoTheManifestYouCopiedHere" -codec copy downloadedVideo.mp4

Force downlaod from Stream

Get destreamer

$ git clone https://github.com/snobu/destreamer
$ cd destreamer
$ npm install
$ npm run build

Download a video

$ ./destreamer.sh -i "https://web.microsoftstream.com/video/VIDEO-1"

Download a video and re-encode with HEVC

$ ./destreamer.sh -i "https://web.microsoftstream.com/video/VIDEO-1" --vcodec libx265

Download many videos but read URLs from a file -

$ ./destreamer.sh -f list.txt

You can get more usage from the origin code repo

Enjoy it.