Douyin live download method (with video download method)

Sometimes I want to watch the Douyin live broadcast, but I don’t have time, so I want to record the content of the live broadcast. But the video recorded by the screen recording is very bad. If you want to download the live video directly, it is naturally possible.
There are a lot of Douyin live streaming download software on the Internet, but almost all of them charge (at least I haven’t seen free ones), so this film is to let you learn how to download live streaming videos for free, without wasting money.

Prepared tools:

1. A computer, Win7 and above is required (other versions are also possible, as long as you test it without any problem)
2. Edge browser or Chrome browser (most other browsers are also available, but the operation may be different)
   Edge official website: https://www.microsoft.com/zh-cn/edge
   Chrome official website: https://www .google.cn/chrome/
3. PotPlayer player
   32-bit download link: https://t2.daumcdn.net/potplayer/PotPlayer/Version/Latest/PotPlayerSetup.exe
   32-bit additional video codec download link: https://t2.daumcdn.net/potplayer /PotPlayer/Codec/v1/OpenCodecSetup.exe
   64-bit download link: https://t2.daumcdn.net/potplayer/PotPlayer/Version/Latest/PotPlayerSetup64.exe
   64-bit additional video codec download link: https:// t2.daumcdn.net/potplayer/PotPlayer/Codec/v1/OpenCodecSetup64.exe
4. Weitang FLV Video Downloader (It should work without this software)
   Note: The software contains advertisements, so pay special attention when downloading the installation package and installing.
   Note: If there are problems such as errors and inability to write during installation, you need to manually create a folder first.
   Official website: http://www.vidown.cn/
5. Format Factory
   official website: http://www.pcgeshi.com/index.html
   Note: still be careful about advertisements

Download Live Video Streaming

1. In the live broadcast room of Douyin on the mobile phone, three points in the lower right corner, share, copy the link
2. Transfer the copied link to the computer through WeChat or QQ, and then open the link in the Edge browser on the computer
   
3. Press the F12 key on the keyboard to open the developer tools (there may be this prompt when you open it for the first time)
   
   
4. This view is hard for me to look at, so I'm going to adjust it to the bottom. Click on the three dots to select the third docking position
   
   
5. Click Network, then click Refresh Page above
   
   
6. Click the input box here, enter the content .flv, and filter out the links containing .flv
   
7. At this time, look at the quality of your live broadcast, adjust it to the highest level, and one or even a few new ones will be screened out (of course, a code scanning pop-up window may pop up because you are not logged in)
   
8. Click on the name to copy the request URL
   
9. Then let's take a look at the requested link:
   https://pull-l3.douyincdn.com/third/stream-111251882418897375_hd.flv
   this is obviously an flv file, but look carefully at the end, there is one there, have _hdyou noticed it?
   After my test, I found its naming rules:
   First, open PotPlayer, click the main menu in the upper left corner, open, open the link
   and delete it _hd, click OK to see if it can be played
   . If it can be played, it means that this link is the original painting Quality (the highest quality in the live room). If it cannot be played, it prompts that the video decoder HM91 is required, which means that the quality of the original picture in the live broadcast room should be changed _or4.
   Explanation: The name of this set of files is based on my own perception. There may be errors, and the actual situation shall prevail (that is, you can click the link of the original picture quality to prevail)
10. The parameter file name is probably like this:
    https://pull-l3.douyincdn.com/third/stream-111251882418897375 文件参数名.flv
    original painting: without content
    Blu-ray (when there is no Blu-ray option, this option is the original painting): _or4
    ultra-clear 720P ( When there is no ultra-definition option, this option is the original picture): _hd
    HD 540P: _sd
    SD 480P: _ld
    For example, if I want to download Blu-ray quality, then the download link ishttps://pull-l3.douyincdn.com/third/stream-111251882418897375_or4.flv
11. When the desired definition is selected, you can open the Weitang FLV software to download the live video stream.
12. The downloaded video is in FLV format, we need to convert it to MP4 format which can be played by most software.
13. Open the format factory software and click the option to convert to MP4
    
14. Click Output Configuration, change it to Copy Stream, and manually modify the video encoding format toAVC(H264)
    
    
15. Just add the file to convert.

download tiktok video

1. Open the Edge browser and press F12 to enter the developer tool (if you don’t know how to use it, see the method of downloading live streaming media above)
2. Find the network and click Media (if there is a .flv filter for downloading live broadcast above, it needs to be deleted)
   
3. Open the video link in a new tab, click the three dots in the lower right corner, you can see the download button
   
4. After downloading, the suffix is ​​.mp4, which can be played directly.