About Build-in Media Snooper
Most websites only need to copy the video playback link, and UDownloader can directly analyze the video or audio link and download it directly. However, there are still audio and video links on some websites that cannot be analyzed. At this time, you need a more professional sniffer tool to help you analyze the audio and video links before downloading. UDownloader makes a built-in snooper, the snooper can not only obtain the audio and video connection of http protocol, but also obtain the connection of https protocol. The built-in snooper in udownloader needs to use mitmproxy. This article introduces how to install mitmproxy.
Usually, we only need to copy the link for downloading the media stream, but sometimes when downloading this link, an error occurs. At this time, we need to use the snooper tool to obtain the downloadable address.
The following steps teach you how to use media snooper
Step 1: launch the Snooper
Click the first button on the toolbar to start the snooper.
Step 2: Play media on web pages
After playing media, just waiting...
Media links found
Wait for a moment, and you can see an link of m3u8(or mp4, mp3, or other file name.) appear in the list, that is what we are looking for.