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How to Download mp4 video in JS/React?

This might have been asked early, but I am unable to figure it out, please help me and thanks in advance.

Problem:

I have a link to mp4 video (ex: https://www.learningcontainer.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/sample-mp4-file.mp4)

I want to download this video from front end.

I have tried the following method:

 const videoHref ='https://www.learningcontainer.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/sample-mp4-file.mp4';
 const a = Object.assign(document.createElement('a'), {
 href: videoHref,
 style: 'display: none',
 download: 'video.mp4'
 });
 document.body.appendChild(a);
 a.click();
 a.remove();

But when I execute this code,

the download will start and fails immediately with error

Failed - No file

Please help me resolve this.

about 4 years ago · Santiago Trujillo
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fetch('https://www.learningcontainer.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/sample-mp4-file.mp4', {
    method: 'GET',
    headers: {
      'Content-Type': 'application/mp4',
    },
  })
  .then((response) => response.blob())
  .then((blob) => {
    const url = window.URL.createObjectURL(
      new Blob([blob]),
    );
    const link = document.createElement('a');
    link.href = url;
    link.setAttribute(
      'download',
      `FileName.pdf`,
    );
    document.body.appendChild(link);
    link.click();
    link.parentNode.removeChild(link);
  });

let me know if it worked thanks

about 4 years ago · Santiago Trujillo Report

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I solved it using following code,

let xhr = new XMLHttpRequest();
xhr.open('GET', 'path/videoLink', true);
xhr.responseType = 'blob';
xhr.onload = function () {
let urlCreator = window.URL || window.webkitURL;
let videoUrl = urlCreator.createObjectURL(this.response);
let tag = document.createElement('a');
tag.href = videoUrl;
tag.target = '_blank';
tag.download = skillName.includes('.mp4') ? skillName : skillName + '.mp4';
document.body.appendChild(tag);
tag.click();
document.body.removeChild(tag);
};
xhr.onerror = (err) => {};
xhr.send();
about 4 years ago · Santiago Trujillo Report

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Such function work for me, but there's a catch:

with that approach ur browser will first store the video in the RAM and when the video is too big it will crash. We're creating a blob here, because a tag download attribute needs the origin to be ur domain, when u test it on localhost and you try to download from another origin it would throw an error.

const downloadVideo = (urls: string) => {
  axios({
    url,
    method: 'GET',
    responseType: 'blob',
  }).then((response) => {
    const urlObject = window.URL.createObjectURL(new Blob([response.data]));
    const link = document.createElement('a');
    link.href = urlObject;
    link.setAttribute('download', 'recording.mp4');
    document.body.appendChild(link);
    link.click();
    document.body.removeChild(link);
  });
};

To download video without creating a blob it needs to be from ur origin or the server serving it needs to append Content-Disposition and Allow Origin headers, then u can just download it with a with target="_blank" property

about 4 years ago · Santiago Trujillo Report
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