Downloading Video in Chrome via the Developer Tool

Recently I had to download a number of videos that a user had uploaded to Screencast-O-Matic. I have a number of tools I use to grab video from various sites, but none of them worked for that particular site.

Fortunately, a quick Google search brought a solution from StackExchange, that is worth trying out generally when other options fail:

  1. Open the video in Google Chrome.
  2. Press Shift+CTRL+I which will bring up the developer tool.
  3. From the developer tool window, click on the Element tool, which is on the far left and looks like a box with an arrow pointing to it.
  4. Click on the video itself. In the developer tool area, this will highlight the video’s actual URL
  5. Right click on that, and select “Open link in new tab”
  6. From the new tab, right click and “Save as” or use CTRL+S

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