I am trying to download an emmbedded link via python, below is a sample link
https://matterhorn.dce.harvard.edu/engage/player/watch.html?id=f7ff1893-fbf7-4909-b44e-12e61a98a677
When I navigate to that page it takes some to load and also have to press play,
Any help would be much appreciated.
If you will view the generated source of the page (after the DOM was loaded and javascript code run) you will see that it's an HTML page (And not a link to a video). The source contains javascript code that generates this html:
<div id="playerContainer_videoContainer_container" role="main" style="position: relative; display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; width: 1902px; height: 1070px; top: 0px;">
<div id="overlayContainer" role="main" style="position: absolute; left: 0px; right: 0px; top: 0px; bottom: 0px; overflow: hidden; z-index: 10;"></div>
<img id="playerContainer_videoContainer_bkg" src="config/profiles/resources/slide_professor_paella.jpg" alt="" width="100%" height="100%" style="position: relative; top: 0px; left: 0px; right: 0px; bottom: 0px; z-index: 0;">
<video id="playerContainer_videoContainer_1" preload="auto" style="top: 18.4722%; left: 0.390625%; width: 65%; height: 65%; position: absolute; z-index: 1;" poster="https://da4w749qm6awt.cloudfront.net/engage-player/f7ff1893-fbf7-4909-b44e-12e61a98a677/attachment-5/presenter_delivery.jpg">
<source src="https://da4w749qm6awt.cloudfront.net/engage-player/f7ff1893-fbf7-4909-b44e-12e61a98a677/24320288-b79e-49e5-93b6-96b4c208f8cb/presenter_delivery.mp4" type="video/mp4">
</video>
<video id="playerContainer_videoContainer_2" preload="auto" style="top: 33.4722%; left: 66.0156%; width: 33.75%; height: 33.75%; position: absolute; z-index: 1;" poster="https://da4w749qm6awt.cloudfront.net/engage-player/f7ff1893-fbf7-4909-b44e-12e61a98a677/attachment-8/presentation_delivery.jpg">
<source src="https://da4w749qm6awt.cloudfront.net/engage-player/f7ff1893-fbf7-4909-b44e-12e61a98a677/93271e20-3f4b-4650-a7e3-95aac41fd3e5/presentation_delivery.mp4" type="video/mp4">
</video>
So the file you actually want to download is
https://da4w749qm6awt.cloudfront.net/engage-player/f7ff1893-fbf7-4909-b44e-12e61a98a677/24320288-b79e-49e5-93b6-96b4c208f8cb/presenter_delivery.mp4"
If you check your network tab (in the developers toolbar) you will notice an ajax request to this url:
https://matterhorn.dce.harvard.edu/search/episode.json?id=f7ff1893-fbf7-4909-b44e-12e61a98a677&_=1477764682940
(you can see that the id here is the same one as the id in your original URL).
The response from this request is a json string:
{"search-results":{"searchTime":"1","total":"1","limit":"1","offset":"0","query":"(id:f7ff1893\\-fbf7\\-4909\\-b44e\\-12e61a98a677) AND oc_organization:mh_default_org AND (o
Only partial response, since it's too big to put here.
Part of the response is:
search-results.result.mediapackage.media.track
Which have 6 items, each of them has a URL property you can use to take the relevant video-links:
I think this information gives you a good place to start :)
