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Conferences, meetings and presentations held on Zoom are often recorded and stored in the cloud, for a finite amount of time. The host can chose to make them available to download, but it is not mandatory.
Nonetheless, I believe if you can view it, you can download it. This script makes it easy to download any video stored on the Zoom Cloud. You just need to provide a valid zoom record URL, and optionally a filename, and it will download the file.
The script was developed and tested under GNU/Linux (precisely, Debian 10). Thus, it should work for about any GNU/Linux distro out there, with common settings. You basically only need Python3 in your path.
New from 2020.06.09 There now exists an executable file zoomdl.exe for Windows. It was kinda tested under Windows 10. Because I never coded under Windows, I have very few tests, mostly empirical ones. Expect bugs! If you encounter a Windows-specific error, don't expect much support. If the error is related to the general logic of the program, report it and I'll do my best to fix it.
You need to have a valid Python3 installation. Except from that, just download the script zoomdl (not zoomdl.exe) and run it like a normal binary. If you wish to make it available system-wide, you can copy it to /usr/local/bin/ (or anywhere else available in your PATH). Then you can simply use it wherever you want.
This is still in beta
Grab the dedicated binary zoomdl.exe, and launch it using your command line. If you don't know how, visit this wikihow. You may encounter warning from your anti-virus, you can ignore them (I'm not evil, pinky-promise). You probably don't need a Python3 installation, it should be contained within the executable.
There are 2 type of valid urls.
- Those starting with https://zoom.us/rec/play/...
- Or, with a domain, https://X.zoom.us/rec/play/... where X is a domain, something like us02web, epfl,... or similar.
If there is a domain in your url, make sure to include it, it's crucial.
zoomdl [-h] -u/--url "url" [-f/--fname "filename"] [-p/--password "password"] [-c/--count-clips count]
-u/--urlis mandatory, it represents the URL of the video-f/--fnameis optional, it is the name of the resulting file without extension. If nothing is provided, the default name given by Zoom will be used. Extension (.mp4,.mkv,... is automatic)-p/--passwordis too optional. Set it when your video has a password.-c/--count-clips: Sometimes, one URL can contain multiple clips. This tunes the number of clips that will be downloaded. Recordings with multiple clips seem to be quite rare, but do exist. The parametercountworks as follow:- 0 means: download all of them (starting from the current clip)
- 1 means: download only the first/given clip
- > 1 means: download until you reach this number of clip (or the end)
The quotes are not mandatory, but if your filename/url/password/... contains reserved characters (\, &, $,%...), quotes are the way to go.
Under Linux/OSX, it is strongly advised to use single quotes, because "4$g3.2" will replace $g3 by nothing, while '4$g3.2' will leave the string as-is.
Under Windows, I think you must use double quotes everywhere. Don't quote me on that.
All dependencies are bundled within the executable. This allows to make a standalone execution without need for external libraries.
If you wish to build it yourself, see requirements.txt. The most important requirement is requests. Please see acknowledgements for a note on that.
The folder executable contains requests (and its dependencies), an awesome wrapper for HTTP(s) calls. Please check them out!