I usually used to inspect any video and get the source URL from there. But the websites upped their security and started using blob URLs. Then I started looking for m3u8 files in the networks tab and used ffmpeg to download them. Now I have started seeing websites that use blob urls and dont even have m3u8’s in network tab. But I know there has to be some way to download these videos because there are other websites where we can paste the video URL and lets you download them. But downloading is not what I want.
What I want is to understand how to get the source of any video on the web. Because I feel if a video is playing on a website there has to be some source it is loading the video from. So are there any more methods other than the 2 I mentioned above? (Getting URL from inspect and m3u8s from networks tab)
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