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Extract Blogger.com Video (RTSP or other methods)


A client of mine wants to migrate from Blogger.com to anywhere, and so far no problem since i can extracts the pages & the content with the Blogger API.

The problem is that the api doesn't help on getting media such as Videos that where uploaded via the Blogger.com back-office. The videos can't be found on the youtube or picassa profile, so i guess the blogger/google servers have it.

I noticed that the video (such as : http://www.theextravagants.com/2016/03/crawl.html ) are played with the youtube player and contains an RTSP:// link ( rtsp://v1.cache5.googlevideo.com/ChoLENy73wIaEQneV3D_QWnzERMYDSANFEgDDA==/0/0/0/video.3gp ) but i can't open it with VLC or even with a library to extract RTSP like RTSPDump (http://bisqwit.iki.fi/source/ms-rtsp-dump/)

I'm Kinda stuck and i'd like to extract all video to put them on a dedicated server, but i can't event extract One video xD

If you have any idea, i'll test it :)

Thanks in advance


Solution

  • To get a backup of your video uploaded to Blogger storage, you will have to go to a URL like http://www.blogger.com/video-play.mp4?contentId=CONTENTID and download it from there. (You will need to replace CONTENTID with its actual value. It can be found in the id attribute of the <object> tag of the video, in the format BLOG_video-CONTENTID )

    For example, for the above video, the URL would be http://www.blogger.com/video-play.mp4?contentId=11f36941ff7057de and you can then right-click on the video & using the Save video as option save it locally