How to download read-only recordings on Teams

Question

Is there any way to download a read-only recording from a Teams class (without recording the screen)? I have a shared OneDrive of lecture recordings, some can be downloaded and some cannot.

Thanks for your help and stay safe.

Answer 1

You can download videos using ffmpeg.

Before following these instructions, Please install ffmpeg to your PC.

1. Go to the recording URL. Now you can view the video but you have no option to download the video.

2. open dev tools in the browser and go to the Network tab.

3. Then reload the webpage again.

4. In the network tab, search the following command using the search area.

   videomanifest?provider
   

5. click on the highlighted area and you can see the right panel is viewing some contents.

6. Scroll up to the top of this panel.

7. Now you can find the URL under Request URL.

8. Copy that entire URL.

9. Use this below command in cmd.

   ffmpeg -i "PASTE_YOUR_COPIED_REQUEST_URL_HERE" -codec copy NAME_OF_DOWNLOADFILE.mp4
   

10. You can see downloading the video.