Download TS files from video stream

Question

Videos on most sites make use of progressive downloading, which means that the video is downloaded to my computer, and easy to trace. There are lots of extensions out there

Answer 1

I made some changes to dina's answer to avoid attempting to download/combine 1200 parts if there aren't that many.

I also found it helpful to sort by waterfall in the network tab of chrome. This will sort by the time the files are downloaded, so when you are streaming a video the most recently downloaded parts will be at the top, making it easy to find the .ts links.

#!/bin/bash

# Name of the containing folder
GROUP="My Videos"

# Example link: https://vids.net/ABCAED/AADDCDE/m3u8/AADDCDE/AADDCDE_0.ts
# Insert below as: https://vids.net/ABCAED/AADDCDE/m3u8/AADDCDE/AADDCDE

# INSERT LINKS TO VIDEOS HERE
LINK=(
'Title for the video link'
'https://vids.net/ABCAED/AADDCDE/m3u8/AADDCDE/AADDCDE'
'Title for the next video'
'https://vids.net/EECEADFE/EECEADFE/m3u8/EECEADFE/EECEADFE'
)

# ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
mkdir "$GROUP"
cd "$GROUP"

I=0
while [ $I -lt ${#LINK[@]} ]
do
  # create folder for streaming media
  TITLE=${LINK[$I]}
  mkdir "$TITLE"
  cd "$TITLE"
  mkdir 'parts'
  cd 'parts'

  J=$((I + 1))
  URL=${LINK[$J]}

  I=$((I + 2))

  DIR="${URL##*/}"

  # download all streaming media parts
  VID=-1
  while [ $? -eq 0 ];
  do
    VID=$((VID + 1))
    wget $URL'_'$VID.ts
  done

  # combine parts
  COUNTER=0
  while [  $COUNTER -lt $VID ]; do
    echo $DIR'_'$COUNTER.ts | tr " " "\n" >> tslist
    let COUNTER=COUNTER+1
  done
  while read line; do cat $line >> $TITLE.ts; done < tslist

  rm -rf tslist
  mv "$TITLE.ts" "../$TITLE.ts"

  cd ..
  rm -rf 'parts'
  cd ..

done