Download HLS Streaming Video with PowerShell and FFMPEG

HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) is used to provide streaming videos on popular social media platforms, such as Twitter. One of the main benefits of HLS is that very large video files can be streamed as smaller, individual segments. You can use PowerShell to download the .m3u8 playlist files, and then examine those playlist files to find the individual .ts video segments.

Once you've downloaded the individual .ts segments, you can use FFMPEG to re-assemble the video segments into a single video file.

In this video, we'll use vanilla PowerShell, with no additional module dependencies, along with ffmpeg, to perform this task end-to-end. Hopefully by the end of this video, you have a better understanding of how HLS works, and how to use PowerShell to download files, read and construct new text files, and invoke ffmpeg with some additional arguments.

Producer: Trevor Sullivan

#PowerShell #ffmpeg #Microsoft

[ghostphalanx]

Wow I'm about to lose my subscription to a super expensive online class and I waited a year to start, now I need to download everything but the web platform is REAL trick with how the stream the video... I tried a dozen browser extensions and 3 paid applications but they only kinda worked..
This video is gonna take care of things I believe, was already able to download some .ts files by myself (although they don't play) now is the coding part.
Thanks a lot my dude

[hclin]

Thanks for your video, learned lots of things.
I just install the Microsoft Visual Code
Is there any package I have to download?
When you type those words it has a recommend respond
But when I do so there's only text, not any recommendation.

[AngelSing-Zepol]

Hi! How are you? What should be done if the ts videos are encrypted or protected with a .key file, such as Wingfox or yiihuu? thank you very much for your help.

[akilfirtinasi]

Hi. Trevor. Twitter m3u8 playlists now contains m4s files and no ts files anymore. Does this solution still valid?

[chewanggyaltsenbhutia]

Thank you, for such a great explanation

[awezshaikh]

How to download videos from the cloudfront url which uses vdocipher implementation of widevine?

[nenolima]

is it possible to use ffmpeg in windows 7 cmd to join audio and video parts in just one file?

[dannysalvatore]

Can we extract Netflix or any other ott content through ffmpeg?

[wilfred-almeida]

The stream I am trying to download is AES encrypted. I can download all .ts files but cannot play or merge them. Help.

[saeedrangamiz]

Hello, if I give a link m3u8 can you download the videi? Please do me a favor 🙏

[hugo]

you're incredibly amazing :')

[TrevorHaagsma]

What video editing software are you using?

[B.BAKDASH]

I want to download the videos from the gnomon workshop. Do you have any suggestions please :(

[컹스컹-dj]

hello in my case can't finding m3u8 what should I do?

[mafemayrink]

hi. Can you please help me? im trying to download some videos of a couse i bought but i cant. and i f reload tha page like in the tutorial it changes the page. i reaaly need the videos can you please help me

[FahadAli-otkn]

is this possible online m3u8
To local m3u8

[anishchaudhary]

Then plz make video how download mp2t video because i want to download my education videos from my education streaming site

[ahirnimesh]

This trick will work premium site that sites require login and password ?

[Sportsman]

I got AccessDeniedAccess Denied followed by a bunch of numbers when trying to run the final code at 15:00

[lavimall]

I got error (Invoke-WebRequest : The remote server returned an error: (403) Forbidden.)