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NicoNico support

Open lurkook opened this issue 3 years ago • 1 comments

This will be useful because other downloaders are hard to find and it might just not work.

Some research

NicoNico video pages has authorization data for guest user in HTML attribute with id="js-initial-watch-data".

Front-end web sends to POST request to https://api.dmc.nico/api/sessions?_format=json (The DMC service; Modern delivery system) with JSON body of some data from authorization data.

The DMC service will respond with authorized URL to the master M3U8. And yes, NicoNico uses HLS VOD...

Preview URLs

  • https://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm13876659
    • Can be without WWW in start of the hostname
  • https://sp.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm6287843
    • Poster mode

lurkook avatar Dec 05 '22 19:12 lurkook

interesting.. i'll close my issue, because i didn't see this prior

enaisnotanumber avatar Feb 23 '24 00:02 enaisnotanumber