Save YouTube ad

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I'm doing some research and would like to save some YouTube ads to a local video file. No, I'm not interested in the videos themselves but the ads that show before or during the video plays. None of the online rippers saves the ads and doing a screen capture with something like Camtasia records the "Skip Ad" button and other overlays. I would preferably like to store the raw ad.

score 7 · Accepted Answer · edited Jan 09 '21 at 19:54

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You can get the Id of the Ad by

right click on the video and select "Stats for nerds"
then you will see the Id for that Ad
you can copy it and paste it in the url for Youtube and it will be opened as a normal video

and you can use a free downloader to download it (my recommendatin is Xtreme Download Manager)

edited Jan 09 '21 at 19:54

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answered Jan 09 '21 at 19:29

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Without having tested it, I can confirm that I once could get the ID of the ad that I wanted using the right-click menu. – questionto42 Jan 09 '21 at 19:47

score 4 · Answer 2 · edited Dec 24 '20 at 16:11

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While on the ad video, right click on the video and select Copy debug info. Paste in your notepad, then note the value of addebug_videoId.

Then you can use the github program called "youtube-dl". Use: youtube-dl command to download it, e.g.

youtube-dl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REPLACE_WITH_ad_debug_videoId

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answered Jan 05 '18 at 15:12

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Using this method, I was able to extract the video but not download it because `youtube-dl` threw an error. But nevertheless, useful info – Pratik Singhal Aug 26 '20 at 17:54
The key is now `addebug_videoId`. And it works. – Low power Oct 17 '20 at 16:31
youtube-dl also has `--include-ads`, although it is marked as experimental – theJack Dec 25 '20 at 05:25

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Mar 10 '22 at 14:25

If someone see this and doesn't know where to put the Id of the video, check this example out:

This is the ID of the video: WhNqZG_AO50

This is a common URL from Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izbQZ0gvs-A

So if you have to put the new ID after the "=". You'll get this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhNqZG_AO50

That's it ::)

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Apr 11 '22 at 18:13

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I would use something like OBS, (OBS (Open Broadcaster Software) is free and open source software for video recording).

This way you could record the YouTube ads to a local video file.

answered Apr 11 '22 at 18:13

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score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Aug 04 '15 at 05:29

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When using Firefox with the Firebug extension, you can open a network monitor.

https://getfirebug.com/wiki/index.php/Net_Panel

Any downloaded video should appear at the media tab. You can query the URL and download it with a tool of your choice. See for example the cURL part in the provided link.

answered Aug 04 '15 at 05:29

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The thing is that HLS files are downloaded (in my case) in chunks of around 150k so I need to put them together which is a pain (plus there is no audio). – Julian Aug 04 '15 at 07:52

score -1 · Answer 6 · edited Apr 11 '22 at 18:06

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I wanted to save some youtube video advertisements the question was how to find the URL of the youtube video advertisement I was able to find the video and save it for my future work I followed this video https://youtu.be/vU3TvPTt0Rg

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