Signal Boost: How To Download Fanvids

[morgandawn]

franzeska posted: How I do the Escapade Dance Party

I start by going to the youtube copy of everything, assuming it has one. I put all of those URLs into 4K Video Downloader. This is a free program, and it is hands-down the best of the easy options. That got me roughly 80% of the final list. Next, I tried it on the non-youtube URLs, which it mostly choked on. For bilibili, I tried different website interfaces until I found one that is working this year. I'll probably have to do that again next year. My spreadsheet tab on download methods shows that I used https://www.videofk.com this time. A few youtube vids just wouldn't download via 4K Video Downloader. These I grabbed with https://qdownloader.net/. My biggest problem this year was actually Vimeo!

Dear vidders whom I know and love and who are part of the community that cares about cons: please stop turning off the damn download feature on Vimeo! Your separate download links invariably go dead! I'm going to get your video from Vimeo eventually anyway! The only thing you are gaining is my irritation.

The issue with Vimeo is that most of the download options can't handle a video with password protection, while some of the great browser add-ons I used a few years ago now put hideous watermarks on everything unless you buy an expensive subscription. Vimeo is great. It also has a great download option that you can easily leave on. I'm just saying.

I see that Morgan Dawn actually posted to DW about a Chrome extension that can grab [password protected]* Vimeo videos. I wish I'd read my flist! The method I actually used involves looking at a couple of layers of page source. (There's a tutorial here, though I had to modify it a little bit.)"

*How To Download Vimeo Password Protected Vids (Chrome Users) by meeedeee (Jan 2019) https://meeedeee.tumblr.com/post/182379393661/how-to-download-vimeo-password-protected-vids

Comments

[franzeska]

I am informed that vimeo downloads are a paid feature, so that explains why so few people have them on. (Though I'm pretty sure there are plenty of vidders who do have plus accounts.)