I have <a>
and inside its href
attribute, I've got a Video URL from a 3rd-party api, when clicking on that <a>
the browser opens a New Tab and Play the video instead of Downloading it!
PROBLEM: What I need to achieve is to download the video directly after clicking on that <a>
instead of playing it in a New Tab and force the user to Right Click
then choose Save Video As
option to download it manually... Just click on Download
and the browser starts to download that video!
NOTE: I am building a JavaScript App, so I need a solution in JavaScript not PHP, it has to be working on all browsers as well...
EDIT: I tried the download
attribute and it doesn't work, because it's Same-Origin Only!
UPDATE: The only solution I found was a +7 years old, it manipulates with the .htaccess
file, you can check it at this CSS Tricks Article, it has a common issue, I can't have 2 links: Watch Video
and Download Video
using this solution... Many developers mentioned this bug there, but no one fixed it yet!
In most browsers, clicking on the link will open the file directly in the browser. But, if you add the download attribute to the link, it will tell the browser to download the file instead. The download attribute works in all modern browsers, including MS Edge, but not Internet Explorer.
Since the endpoint supports CORS, you can use my file download lib to save the content instead of showing it.
download("http://distribution.bbb3d.renderfarming.net/video/mp4/bbb_sunflower_1080p_30fps_normal.mp4");
Online Demo: http://pagedemos.com/v84rawmzntzt/output/
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