[blivenyc] Site support request

[johnconnorskynet]

Hello,

Not sure if it is the right and if not please accept my apology. I am trying to download a video from this url : http://www.styleheroine.com/2017/01/11/valentino-pre-fall-live/
When i inspect the source of the page i found this :

<video data-html5-video="" poster="//deb5pi665ie8w.cloudfront.net/video-thumbnails/production_1610_1727_poster.caa.jpg" preload="metadata" src="blob:http://embed.blivenyc.com/6c6c4a70-4729-441c-b95f-3306975c1653"><style class="clappr-style">[data-html5-video] {
  position: absolute;
  height: 100%;
  width: 100%;
  display: block; }
</style></video>

The source of the video is a blob URL. I searched the internet to learn that "A blob: URL does not refer to data the exists on the server, it refers to data that your browser currently has in memory, for the current page."

I tried to download the video by launching in the terminal and the result was :

youtube-dl http://www.styleheroine.com/2017/01/11/valentino-pre-fall-live/
[generic] valentino-pre-fall-live: Requesting header
WARNING: Falling back on generic information extractor.
[generic] valentino-pre-fall-live: Downloading webpage
[generic] valentino-pre-fall-live: Extracting information
ERROR: Unsupported URL: http://www.styleheroine.com/2017/01/11/valentino-pre-fall-live/

My request is not about supporting this URL but rather to learn more about blob url, how to write a piece of code to download blob url videos. As inspecting the network traffic i found that the video is sent into chunks of ts files i guess the code would be : fetch these chunks and stitch them using ffmpeg.

Thanks.

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[debug] System config: []
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[debug] Command-line args: [u'-v', u'http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaW_jenozKcj']
[debug] Encodings: locale cp1251, fs mbcs, out cp866, pref cp1251
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[debug] Python version 2.7.11 - Windows-2003Server-5.2.3790-SP2
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg N-75573-g1d0487f, ffprobe N-75573-g1d0487f, rtmpdump 2.4
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[yan12125]

Browsers use blob: for non-URL video sources. In this example the video uses HLS.