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How to download from unsupported streaming websites
Posted by pspzockerscene psp, Last modified by pspzockerscene psp on 10 September 2020 04:48 PM

JDownloader has a lot of plugins - many of which are for streaming websites.
These plugins are the reason why it is often easy to download from a particular website.
However, sometimes an "easy" download is not possible because a JD plugin for the website you want to download from:

  • does not exist
  • exists but is broken

This guide shows how to download a video/audio stream from a website if one of the above cases applies.
This will work for most of all websites.

  1. Install the browser addon Video DownloadHelper (Firefox/Chrome).
  2. Open your streaming content and click on play.
    The "DownloadHelper" Icon in the top right corner of your browser should become active.
    If there are multiple resolutions available you might have to chose the highest streaming quality/video-resolution (if wanted) so that it is selectable in the overview:

    As you can see, in some cases the same quality might get displayed multiple times which is not a big deal.
  3. Now pick your desired quality and click on the arrow to the right --> Copy URL
  4. Now add the copied URL to JDownloader and wait until it appears in the LinkGrabber.
    Please keep in mind that such URLs often only last for several minutes/hours so better start downloading them right away as they might expire if you e.g. collect a lot of them and want to download them the next day.
    Expired download-URLs will usually be displayed as offline ("File not found") in JD.
    In case you're using the addon itself instead of JD to download, it will sometimes save the downloaded files to the following location:
    ~/dwhelper/
    or
    C:\Users\YourUsername\dwhelper

More about the "Video DownloadHelper" addon: Get started instructions, FAQ

Similar browser-addons: The Stream Detector (Firefox), HLS Downloader (Chrome, open source)

Help! I'm unable to download a certain video / it is getting displayed as offline in the LinkGrabber

In some cases, even the above described method may not work e.g. if the content you want to download:

  • is DRM protected (= digital copy protection)
  • is delivered via a streaming protocol which JD does not support
  • The content you want to download is only accessible via account and needs special headers to be downloaded (rare case)

If none of the above cases applies and you're still having trouble downloading particular content, contact our support and we will try to help.

Tags: VideoDownloadHelper, Video DownloadHelper, Streaming. Unsupported website, Video, Audio



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