Video Download Link Crawler
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Video Download Link Crawler
7 days trial then $10.00/month - No credit card required now
Extract direct video download links from any webpage! Customize crawling with regex, export in multiple formats, and automate video collection. Fast, efficient, and cheap—try now!
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Created in Mar 2025
Modified 2 days ago
Discover and extract direct video download links from websites without the resource overhead of browser-based solutions.
Why use this crawler?
Finding videos across websites can be time-consuming and resource-intensive. This actor automates the process using lightweight HTTP requests to identify and extract video links efficiently.
Ideal for:
- Digital marketers collecting video content
- Content researchers finding multimedia resources
- Developers building media aggregation tools
- Anyone needing to catalog videos across websites
Core functionality
- Target your sources - Add starting URLs where you want to find videos
- Set crawl parameters - Configure depth and page limits
- Run the crawler - Let it discover embedded and downloadable videos
- Collect the links - Get a comprehensive dataset of all discovered videos
The crawler intelligently follows links while identifying videos embedded in HTML and JavaScript.
Key advantages
- ⚡ Lightweight operation: Uses CheerioCrawler for minimal resource consumption
- 🔄 Configurable depth: Control how far the crawler follows links
- 🎯 Smart detection: Finds video links hidden in various HTML elements
- 📊 Organized output: Get results structured by source URL
Setup options
| Parameter | Type | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
startUrls | Array | Initial URLs to begin crawling |
maxDepth | Number | How many links deep to crawl (default: 2) |
maxPagesPerCrawl | Number | Limit on total pages to process |
Results structure
1{ 2 "sourceUrl": "https://example.com/page", 3 "pageTitle": "Example Page", 4 "mediaLinks": [ 5 { 6 "type": "video", 7 "url": "https://example.com/video.mp4", 8 } 9 ], 10 "timestamp": "2023-03-09T04:51:52.000Z" 11}
Practical applications
Content research
Quickly find all video resources on websites to analyze content strategies.
Digital asset discovery
Create inventories of videos across websites for reference and research.
Media collection
Build databases of video content from multiple sources automatically.
Advanced usage tips
- Start with a reasonable
maxDepth(2-3) and increase as needed - Use the
maxPagesPerCrawllimit for large websites to control costs - For very large sites, consider running multiple targeted crawls instead of one large one
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