Note that searching for a .m3u8 file does not show anything.

The video in question is on snapchat web. I don’t have a (smart) phone on me right now, so I can’t download it the official way.

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    For social media videos I always just search for <service> video downloader, paste the link to the post and get the video. I do this for Facebook, instagram, and Reddit. I don’t want some plugin I’ll use rarely and the web downloaders seem to work fine.

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      yeah, its on snapchat, a chat app, so its not too likely to have a video downloader made, especially since the app supports video downloading (just not web).

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        Don’t use snap anymore, but I used to be able to turn my data off after loading the video, save it to gallery, then reset the app to prevent sending a message

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        You just said web though, right? Not the app. There’s downloaders for everything if you have a link to a public post.

        “Snapchat video downloader” search gives me an entire page of downloaders. I don’t use Snapchat so I can’t comment on what works or doesn’t, but this is how I download any other social media video.

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            Hm, still might be worth a shot. There are ways to grab private posts when you’re logged in by using a browser console and finding the line for the video but I’m kinda too dumb for that. I’d probably just use a screen recorder at that point. I don’t need a Snapchat web-dl.

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              23 hours ago

              Its not a post at all, its a video someone sent me in a message.
              I did try that, but it uses blob: urls so I can’t grab a direct linl.