Netflix

[shaybracha]

Is this utility works with Netflix downloading?

I have got the error:"ERROR: Invalid URL"

Thanks

[phihag]

Unfortunately, youtube-dl does not support netflix yet. I'll take this as a support request. Can you name some example URLs for you? I suspect that the ones I get;

http://movies.netflix.com/WiMovie/Monty_Python_s_The_Meaning_of_Life/60029676
http://movies.netflix.com/WiPlayer?movieid=70143824

are somewhat specific to my system.

[shaybracha]

Hi

netflix URL:http://movies.netflix.com/WiPlayer?movieid=70143824&trkid=13630398&tctx=1%2C0%2Cc3eb2ff6-e9b6-4958-9e1d-6e865d0ccd1a-9230779&evType=EV1

supporting Netflix download could be very useful

[HalosGhost]

Just as a piece of information that may be relevant, Netflix does not use flash objects for its streaming, it still uses Silverlight. I imagine most people here are aware of this, but to my knowledge, youtube-dl doesn't support any silverlight sites; which may make this much more difficult to realize (despite how much I'd love to see it happen).

[rrooij]

Netflix doesn't use Silverlight anymore for streaming, which is a plus. It uses Flash now, and HTML5 with encrypted media extensions (not supported in the current Firefox).

Either way, the content is encrypted. I don't think that it's possible to implement it, even with those changes in mind.

[julien-c]

There are a couple of really interesting reads on Netflix's engineering blog regarding their use of HTML5 video and Encrypted Media Extensions.

[MrRobot12]

@danfiscus It's DRM'd/encrypted. It would have been broken by now if possible.

[TRox1972]

@MrRobot12 it was broken a time ago, but those who figured it out haven't shared it.

[MrRobot12]

@TRox1972 source? Only the SD streams have been "broken" due to a convoluted loophole in a specific version of software. No one has broken encryption on the HD streams yet. The 720/1080/2160p "rips" you see online are not direct rips, they are done by screen capping.

[TRox1972]

@MrRobot12 Maybe I'm wrong, but read this some time ago https://www.cs.ucsb.edu/~chris/research/doc/usenix13_moviestealer.pdf

[HeroCC]

It no longer is avaliable for download, but if someone has a copy of this they can share, maybe someone could reverse engineer it? Or find out what this does to download shows? Neither are open source as far as I can tell unfortunately.

[Rudloff]

It is still available on their server: http://web-ic.dvdvideosoft.net/FreeNetflixDownloader_1.0.6.1206_d.exe
(I didn't try it though.)

[judge2020]

Tried the Netflix downloader and it works. It's made in qt, so it would be hard to reverse engineer exactly how they grab the Netflix stream.

When it downloads a video, it loads qtwebengine with params:

"C:\Program Files (x86)\DVDVideoSoft\Free Netflix Downloader\QtWebEngineProcess.exe" --type=ppapi --channel="271400.1.858156865\1682689638" --no-sandbox --ppapi-flash-args --lang=en --device-scale-factor=1 /prefetch:3

So we will need a flash/ppapi downloader.