How to login to vlive.tv to download paid contents?

[hjeondv]

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I'm trying to download a video on vlive.tv. In vlive.tv, there are channel+, where only a paid user can view the contents, similar to youtube red(now premium).

However, this sites supports multiple logins like Naver, Line, Facebook, and Twitter. I currently login via facebook. Just typing in my facebook email address, it doesn't work.

PS C:\Users\Administrator\Downloads> .\youtube-dl.exe -u [email protected] https://www.vlive.tv/video/66178
Type account password and press [Return]:
[vlive] 66178: Downloading webpage
ERROR: Coming soon!
PS C:\Users\Administrator\Downloads>

Any suggestions?

[socialily]

you wouldn't be able to do anything since youtube-dl doesnt support vplus content :(

[socialily]

because: cookies don't import well (or i'm messing something up) and: they are drm protected

[hjeondv]

@socialily

Thanks for your reply. However, the vlive CH+ contents are NOT DRM protected.

https://globalv-rmcnmv.akamaized.net/global/read/global_v_2018_07_04_213/5d83267e-7f1f-11e8-9ebf-0000000041ed.mp4?__gda__=(PRIVATE)

This is a sample URL of CH+ content. I hided the last few part because that's the access key to view that url. I can download a regular mp4 using a chrome extension(Free Video Downloader). However, it will be so hard to do the same thing like 50 times to download them all.

As you said, I found it is not possible to download them via youtube-dl. (native auth, cookies don't work.)

If I input the full URL above, youtube-dl is able to download.

Anyway, thanks for your interest.

[socialily]

@hjeondv
from where do you get that url ? for me only the init.mp4 files and the segments show up

[hjeondv]

@socialily

Just login(the ID must be subscribed to CH+ you want to view), and go to the video you want to download.

Assuming your are using chrome, just press F12 for chrome developer tools, and go to the Elements tab.

You can get the url of the video.

[hymiyalee]

OMG can't believe I find this.
I am working on download the video I already paid.

[hymiyalee]

I have downloaded the youtube-dl and tried with it to download videos from youtube, worked well.
But... how can I get the paid content's url in Vlive?

[afrinaad]

@hjeondv the latest vlive seems like there is no url for the video right?

edit: found the video url but it only downloaded the first 30 seconds or it will only show error ONLY_APP. Is there any way to override this message?

[ghost]

You can't download the video with a direct link to the video. If you use your browser you can find the m3u8 playlist and attempting to download it will fail, too, but youtube-dl is able to download individual TS files if you add ?__gda__=(PRIVATE) to each of them. I don't know if this is of any help, but if it was possible to take ?__gda__=(PRIVATE) from the playlist URL and then add it to the files of the playlist downloading would be possible.

Right now you can download all TS files and use ffmpeg to concat, but vtt subtitles probably won't work.

[zhuppyra]

@hjeondv i've found the url to ch+ video i'd like to download but when i put the link into youtube-dl it gave me error 403 forbidden message. can you help me with this?

[biwubo]

If anyone has a CH+ account and wants to see support added for downloading CH+ videos to youtube-dl then please email me if you're willing to share your account details.

Update 1: I have the required access to begin implementing the changes.
Update 2: PR is up #21209