Suppose you are an earnest city blogger, and you’d like to download last night’s meeting so that you can watch it on a plane flight.
If you go to the city’s webpage and find the city council videos, you’ll find there is a “download” button conveniently located below the video. (At least there is on the computer browser version. It doesn’t show up on my phone.)
However, the button doesn’t work. Womp-womp.
So you ask your colleague for help, and you figure it out, and you will put the instructions here for the sake of your future self.
Open the video.
Right click on the screen to get to “View Page Source”.
Once you’re there, search for “Download” using ctrl-F. On this particular meeting, this returned 22 options.
Click through them until you see one that’s near a link that ends in “.mp4”
That’s your download file! You might have to copy and paste it – clicking it took me to more source code.
Hooray!
The San Marxist 