4 Proven Methods to Download Wistia Videos 2026

Wistia is a video hosting platform for businesses that helps teams manage and analyze videos. But downloading embedded videos from Wistia isn’t as easy as on YouTube or Vimeo.

And while browsing Quora and Reddit, I often see users struggling with Wistia video download issues, like these:

“I use yt-dlp, and it keeps showing me an error message”

“Chrome extensions are not working for Wistia video download”

In this guide, I'll show you 4 ways to download Wistia videos in under a minute. Read on to know more details.

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How to Grab the Wistia URL Link (Needed for Method 1 & 2)

Before downloading Wistia video, you need to get the video address. The link URL from Wistia is not as easily accessible as the link from YouTube and Vimeo. You have to grab it from code.

However, the code for Wistia video download may change each year. So the steps might be updated in the future.

Way one: from "Copy link and thumbnail"

1. Open up one of the Wistia video.
2. Right-click the video.
3. You will see an option that says “Copy link and thumbnail”, just click it.
4. Paste the content to the blank text editor, Microsoft Word, or anywhere.
5. The link in the image: https://truth-about-keto.com?wvideo=o1kvat5mfb is what I need, and other stuff can be ignored.

Way two: use the URL https://fast.wistia.net/embed/iframe/video_id directly

1. Get the code after “wvideo=”. (A series of letters or numbers in the way one is “o1kvat5mfb”.)
2. Add the code to https://fast.wistia.net/embed/iframe/.
3. Finally, we can easily get the URL: https://fast.wistia.net/embed/iframe/o1kvat5mfb.

Way three: from page source

1. Open up a Wistia video that you want to download from the website.
2. Right-click the page and choose “View Page Source” option or add the code “view-source:” in front of the video address.
3. In source page, hit Ctrl + F key and search “medias”.
4. You will obtain a link as shown below: https://fast.wistia.com/embed/medias/o1kvat5mfb.jsonp.
5. Remove “.jsonp”. The ultimate link is https://fast.wistia.com/embed/medias/o1kvat5mfb.

Verdict

On the whole, we’d like to recommend you to download Wistia videos using link two. Some robust software, like Cisdem VideoPaw, also allows you to download videos from Wistia by link one.

Method 1. How to Download Embedded Video from Wistia Using Dedicated App

To download video from Wistia on a computer, Cisdem VideoPaw is a solid choice. It lets you queue up multiple 4K or Full HD Wistia videos for download and convert them into formats that work for offline playback.

You can also do basic editing on downloaded Wistia videos using the built-in editor - add watermarks, apply effects, insert subtitles, trim, merge, and more. And it's pretty straightforward to use: just grab the video URL, paste it in, and download.

Download, install Cisdem VideoPaw on Mac or Windows, and launch it.

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You will see various sections. Locate and click the one labeled Video Downloader to access the download page.

Locate a Wistia video you are going to download. Then, simply copy the URL of this video to the clipboard.

Important Tip: Cisdem VideoPaw has another impressive feature. If there is only one Wistia video on the page, you don't have to follow the steps above to get its URL. You can directly copy the link in the address bar. The Wistia video on this page will be successfully fetched and downloaded as well.

Go back to Video Converter, paste the link to the download box at the bottom of the software, click on the "+“ icon to parse out the contained

As it offers a batch-processing feature, you can go to "File > Input URLs" to add more videos for downloading them simultaneously.

Just click the "Download" button to download all Wistia videos in under a minute.

Extra tip: how to download Wistia videos to ideal formats

Drag the downloaded Wistia videos to the Video Converter interface. Click the format icon to choose your target output formats and reset the parameters. At last, click on the "Convert" button to convert Wistia videos without impediment.

Method 2. Download Wistia Video Free Online

#1 SaveTheVideo.com

SaveTheVideo.com is a solid online Wistia downloader. In my test, it grabbed Wistia videos in up to 4K quality, with multiple resolution options clearly listed, from 4K Ultra HD down to 360p, along with file sizes for each option. You can also download subtitles in VTT format.

That said, it has a few drawbacks — no batch downloads, and the MP3 conversion didn't work (kept showing "Failed to fetch"). But for quickly downloading Wistia videos in their original format, it's a decent free option.

1. Open a browser and visit https://www.savethevideo.com/.
2. Play a video from Wistia and copy its URL.
3. Paste the URL into the input box and click "Start" to analyze the video.
4. The site will show you available download options. Choose your preferred format and quality from the "Select Format" menu.
5. Click the “Download MP4” button.
6. Then, the video will be opened in a new tab. Click on the three-dot icon and then select Download to start the downloading process.

#2 TubeOffline.com

Tubeoffline.com is a decent site for those who need to download Wistia video online quickly and straightforwardly. It claims to convert your files to MP4, FLV, AVI, WMV, and MP3. But no matter which format I choose as the output, it only empowers me to save Wistia as MP4. As of now bolstered administrations include: DarkAnime, Kakao, GamoVideo, Naver, and more.

Note that Tubeoffline.com is a part of dirpy.com currently. So don’t worry about that the search engine shows you another site when you head to Tubeoffline.com. Just keep on pasting the URL of the copied video and downloading it on your device with ease.

1. Navigate to https://www.tubeoffline.com/download-Wistia-videos.php.
2. Paste URL into the input field of the online Wistia downloader.
3. Click "dirpy!" to analyze, and you will be redirected to the download page.
4. Click the three dots icon on the bottom right corner of the video thumbnail, then click Download button on the popped-up window to download Wistia video for free. The video will be downloaded as .bin extension. You can manually change it to .mp4.

#3 ClipConverter.CC

ClipConverter.CC, a web-based free Wistia video downloader, gives users the possibility to grab videos from 1000+ hot websites and the resolution can up to 4K. Meanwhile, it provides you with several audio and video output formats, including M4A, AAC, MP3, AVI, MP4, 3GP, MOV, and MKV.

This online Wistia video downloader also develops an add-on for Chrome, Firefox, and Safari. You can try to use the ClipConverter.CC extension as an alternative to download Wistia videos. However, it may be hard for some people to open the page. If you encounter this condition, just move to below to get other useful online video downloaders.

1. Head over to https://www.clipconverter.cc/.
2. Type the Wistia URL of the video into the box.
3. Click "Continue" to check the URL.
4. Choose one of the detected media options.
5. Select the conversion format.
6. Click "Start". After that, download video from Wistia easily on your computer.

Method 3. How to Download Wistia Video with Extension

#1 Chrome Extension: Wistia Video Downloader

For Chrome users, Wistia Video Downloader (offered by downloadwistiavideos.com) is a powerful video download chrome extension for you to choose, which is pretty easy to use and capable of downloading all videos from Wistia effortlessly. You can pick video quality from 224p to 4K and get captions in different languages. If there are multiple videos in a page, you can download all at once.

1. Search for the downloader on Chrome web store and install it as your extension.
2. Visit the page with the Wistia video and play it.
3. In the top-right corner of your browser, click the Extensions (puzzle) icon.
4. Find "Wistia Video Downloader" in the list. Click it.
5. The extension will scan the page and then show you the video info in the popup window. Select your desired resolution.
6. Click the "Download" button and the video will save to your computer.

#2 Firefox Extension: Video DownloadHelper

The three add-ons for Wistia video download I tested on Firefox are Video Downloader Pro, Video & Audio Downloader and Video DownloadHelper. Video & Audio Downloader can extract all Wistia to MP3 audio files, but not videos. As for Video DownloadHelper, it’s more useful than Video Downloader Pro and Flash Video Downloader.

Thus, here would mainly illustrate how to download Wistia Videos on Firefox using Video DownloadHelper..

1. Search Video DownloadHelper extension on Firefox.
2. Add the add-on to Firefox, and the icon will appear on the overflow menu. If not, you can go to the “Customize” window to drag it into the toolbar.
3. Navigate to any site that contains embedded Wistia videos. DownloadHelper will catch the videos in MP4.
4. Play the video you wish to save, and the icon of Video DownloadHelper will become highlight when it detects the embedded video.
5. Click on the highlight three-ball icon, and then move your mouse to the right corner of the obtained video. If there are multiple videos, choose the largest one.
   
6. Then, it pops up a new window for you to quickly download, copy URL, delete & pin video, add video to blacklist and convert video to MPEG, AVI, MOV, etc. Just download Wistia video on Firefox based on your need.
   

Method 4. How to Download Wistia Video without Any Software

In fact, it is capable of downloading Wistia Videos without any tool. And the steps on Google Chrome, Firefox and Safari are similar. Let’s take Google Chrome as an example to understand how to download Wistia videos directly.

1. Open a Wistia video on your Google Chrome, right-click anywhere on the video, and click “Copy link and thumbnail”.
2. Open a text editor on your computer, paste the copied link into it to find the video code. In this case, “a74mrwu4wi” is the thing that I need.
   
3. Add the code to the end of “https://fast.wistia.net/embed/iframe/", so that we will get a new link that is “https://fast.wistia.net/embed/iframe/a74mrwu4wi”.
4. Copy and paste the new link into a new tap on Google Chrome and we will get the real video contained in the link.
5. Come to the bottom right corner of the video, click the gear icon, and then click Quality option to select the desired quality format. In this case, we choose “1080p” as the output quality option.
   
6. Then, move mouse to the position of the URL, and input the word of “view-source:” in front of the whole URL to activate the View Page Source Window.
   
7. Enter “Command + F” on the keyboard (Enter "Ctrl + F" if you are a Windows user), input “1080p” into the search bar and find it. Then, look for the URL ending in .bin extension near 1080p. Plus, the URL is in front of 1080p. In this case, it is “https://embed-ssl.wistia.com/deliveries/063de8cf58795ff2b6643a82f5a17ddcb4a2b5e1.bin”.
8. Copy and paste the real URL into a new tap, change .bin to .mp4, and tap Enter. You will see a video that can be downloaded.
9. Now, click three dots on the video thumbnail, and then click Download button. The video with .mp4 extension will be saved to computer automatically.
   

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