Saturday, February 8, 2014

Look Back Video Download

So you think that Look Back movie is the best thing to come out of Facebook since Timeline, and you want to make a copy of it.

Normally, I would simply go to my browser cache, and grab the mp4 file from there. For a 1-minute video, the filesize is about 2MB. Too small. Checking the Chrome cache, it looks like the video is being served by Akamai. Maybe Facebook is simply using the low-res version.

To download the source video, go back to the Chrome cache, and do a search (Ctrl-F) for "https://loopbackvideo". Click on the URL, to go to the video, then Ctrl-S to save. This time I got a 5MB video file, which is much better.

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