Automatic tool (unmaintained)

Paste the video link you got by right-clicking the Wistia player here:


Manual method

  1. Right-click on the playing video Choose “Copy link.”

  2. Find the video ID in the link You’ll see something like:

    wvideo=tra6gsm6rl
    

    Here tra6gsm6rl is the video’s ID.

    If it’s not in the link, you can also: Open the page source (view source) and search for:

    hashedId=tra6gsm6rl
    
  3. Open the embed page Visit in your browser:

    http://fast.wistia.net/embed/iframe/ + video ID
    

    For example:

    http://fast.wistia.net/embed/iframe/tra6gsm6rl
    
  4. Find the real video file address In the source of the page that opens, search for:

    • Look first for:

      "type":"original"
      

      Then look one line down, and you’ll see something like:

      "url":"http://embed.wistia.com/deliveries/xxxxx.bin"
      
    • If there’s no original, look for:

      "type":"hd_mp4_video"
      
  5. Download the video Copy the link you found and change the extension from:

    .bin
    

    to:

    .mp4
    

    Then just open or download it.

Reposted from: https://gist.github.com/szepeviktor/2a8a3ce8b32e2a67ca416ffd077553c5