Open the Downloads window in Safari and paste the URL into it. The download will start immediately.
[crarko adds: This is generally worth trying for hard to download files.]
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A recent video project required me to download MP4 files from our streaming partner's site. When I would click a link, however, the video would play in Safari, and there wasn't a way to right-click on the link and download it, as you can do with other kinds of files. So how do I download the MP4?
Open the Downloads window in Safari and paste the URL into it. The download will start immediately. [crarko adds: This is generally worth trying for hard to download files.]
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Download an MP4 file in Safari
Option-clicking a link usually works. ---
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Download an MP4 file in Safari
Or option-enter in the url bar. That's especially convenient when you accidentally just clicked the link and it opened in the browser, because then you just do command-L followed by option-enter.
Download an MP4 file in Safari
Drag & Drop to Downloads is also nice.. ---
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Download an MP4 file in Safari
This was a new one to me, thanks. I usually use the Terminal and curl which is available on all recent Mac OS X installations.
curl -o outputfilename address_to_download
For people not used to the terminal it might be a bit daunting at first, but it is rather simple. I have gotten non-geeks at work to find the terminal appealing after showing them how to do it. The advantage with curl is that it can handle almost any kind of download.
Download an MP4 file in Safari
or even easier tell curl to use the file's name on the server: curl -O url_to_file
Download an MP4 file in Safari
These are all OK if you're looking at a link to the actual file. Sometimes there's a level of indirection or two involved and you'll just end up downloading a .htm file or some other intermediate file. In most of these indirect cases you can get to the streaming content by double-clicking on the appropriate line in the Activity Window. Of course, sometimes more inventive tricks are required...
Download an MP4 file in Safari
Why on earth would you need to do this over option-enter or command s (save) or a cURL command?
Download an MP4 file in Safari
Agreed. This is basically the worst out of those three possible methods to force a file to download?
Download an MP4 file in Safari
Identifying the file in the Activity Window and Option-Clicking the file will start a download.
Download an MP4 file in Safari
Cmd - S FFS! ---
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Download an MP4 file in Safari
I always option-clicked in the activity window, but a lot of these other ones (including the original) are good hints for those like me who never knew about them. I can't believe I never realized some of these myself - particularly that you can just do Save/CMD-S when you have a difect link to an mp4 or whatever file! |
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