Once you've found it, click on the request name, which represents the HTTP request that was sent to the server for the video file. It should be easy to recognize the video transfer: It has a mime type of video, it's a transfer that should take a lot longer than the rest, etc. At this point, you can navigate to the video you want, and I'd probably press the 'clear' button in the developer tools right before finally pressing the 'Play' button on the video, so it can be one of the only transfers you see. Our goal is to isolate the web request that returns the video of your choice. (On any Chrome machine): The far right menu button, to the right of the URL bar, you can press that, go down to 'Tools', then open the 'Developer Tools'.īy clicking the 'Network' tab, you'll get a list of all files requested since you opened that tab. (In your menu on a mac): Open View > Developer > Developer ToolsĤ. Open Developer Toolsįrom the page where you want to download some things, go into your chrome menu to open the developer tools. But Chrome's developer tools make it easy to access what's really going on under the hood. Streaming just means a download that they don't want you to keep.
