Download FPC videos using wget efficiently.
Download FPC videos using wget efficiently.
It is, easily. Automating it is another story (I'm sure there's a way, but it won't be elegant), but you can simply go to a page, copy the link in the download button, paste it into your terminal with your download client of choice, and you're good to go. Filenames would be rather messy without an output option, so I'd use the -O flag (wget link.com/video.mp4 -O filename.mp4) to clean it up.
You're about to visit the forum page and then enter the link in the terminal. Why not just click it? Also, it's interesting that it actually functions—there might be ways to work around the requirement of being a PFC member to access videos.
Based on what has been said before, your download count is restricted during specific periods (likely daily). The part after "?wmsAuthSign=" seems to track each download. As for the reason, it might be a server-side component that handles downloads via SSH; the OP noted this approach.
It’s possible to work with that RSS feed, though the process isn’t straightforward. The links point to a JavaScript-powered player, which makes direct extraction tricky. A rough workaround would involve using a script to handle cookies for authorization, then collecting the URLs and queuing them for download. This approach is less clean than using wget, especially in a scripting language like Python, and could raise concerns with site administrators.