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How to Download Skool Videos from .m3u8 Token Streams (HLS Guide)

Use your browser's network panel to capture Skool .m3u8?token URLs and download the video with yt-dlp.

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How to Download Skool Videos from .m3u8 Token Streams (HLS Guide)

Want the easy way? Try the Skool Downloader.

  1. Get the .m3u8?token= URL from the network requests
  2. Replace the "URL" in the prepared command with the m3u8?token URL

Get the .m3u8?token= URL from the network requests

  1. Open dev tools > network requests
  2. Play the video to put the stream into the network requests
  3. Filter by m3u8 (to make your life easier)
  4. Click on the m3u8 stream with the ?token in the URL
  5. Copy the URL from the Headers > Request URL

A link like this:

https://stream.video.skool.com/MXf2v021K3zabLTz3wxh2dvAnRgv1lMD01LK1cqr2aG2E.m3u8?token=eyJhbGciOiJSUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJhdWQiOiJ2IiwiZXhwIjoxNzU4NTYyOTk2LCJraWQiOiJPVjIwMHZ6SWZuZFVCNHdXdTAxbDRjb0hrYTVQQUd3TlYwMEtZSkJrQkppVlFrIiwicGxheWJhY2tfcmVzdHJpY3Rpb25faWQiOiIzMDJ2dXNuVG1lbW1QSzllOUpMaWxaUmpnVkJ3T2hTNlVLdGkyWnhJS2V1WSIsInN1YiI6Ik1YZjJ2MDIxSzN6YWJMVHozd3hoMmR2QW5SZ3YxbE1EMDFMSzFjcXIyYUcyRSJ9.1R6_xDCcKYUyUWUISfiyjKnd0Xm8laMDRKSpCd0lkziGnm95CLqPZlW4Bsj5T3xB9v2NgFQ-Ql0N0HewS685-l6r3WV8g5ddbEWQDWpmyHVDNq_Vc1PD9w-e9CIkXruzCp6-kREQtrrGgCmx2p_V5aLOjCLeVNOgRwOFuFHZxXAXlLJt-4vXqEgfRyzDVRrze5sskn1Xm5GeUQPtNWWnDWRx6k3FGQdz8BRIhucJ771TLBpTTnNgPPRINzmZeBCuVY1ZAJt84EDLKX2XCuo8MUu4vRz6P_6tLeWoljy2JlEaUD-8UbOQRYIlUVj2lYrP4iZTon7x70HvLm0SqmT8OA&CMCD=cid%3D%22MXf2v021K3zabLTz3wxh2dvAnRgv1lMD01LK1cqr2aG2E%22%2Csid%3D%2262f1bce3-68bd-46ae-a45d-2f746c6cb24b%22

2. Replace the "URL" in the prepared command with the m3u8?token URL

command

yt-dlp --referer "https://skool.com" "URL" -o "output.mp4"

It should become something like this:

yt-dlp --referer "https://skool.com" "https://stream.video.skool.com/MXf2v021K3zabLTz3wxh2dvAnRgv1lMD01LK1cqr2aG2E.m3u8?token=eyJhbGciOiJSUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJhdWQiOiJ2IiwiZXhwIjoxNzU4NTYyOTk2LCJraWQiOiJPVjIwMHZ6SWZuZFVCNHdXdTAxbDRjb0hrYTVQQUd3TlYwMEtZSkJrQkppVlFrIiwicGxheWJhY2tfcmVzdHJpY3Rpb25faWQiOiIzMDJ2dXNuVG1lbW1QSzllOUpMaWxaUmpnVkJ3T2hTNlVLdGkyWnhJS2V1WSIsInN1YiI6Ik1YZjJ2MDIxSzN6YWJMVHozd3hoMmR2QW5SZ3YxbE1EMDFMSzFjcXIyYUcyRSJ9.1R6_xDCcKYUyUWUISfiyjKnd0Xm8laMDRKSpCd0lkziGnm95CLqPZlW4Bsj5T3xB9v2NgFQ-Ql0N0HewS685-l6r3WV8g5ddbEWQDWpmyHVDNq_Vc1PD9w-e9CIkXruzCp6-kREQtrrGgCmx2p_V5aLOjCLeVNOgRwOFuFHZxXAXlLJt-4vXqEgfRyzDVRrze5sskn1Xm5GeUQPtNWWnDWRx6k3FGQdz8BRIhucJ771TLBpTTnNgPPRINzmZeBCuVY1ZAJt84EDLKX2XCuo8MUu4vRz6P_6tLeWoljy2JlEaUD-8UbOQRYIlUVj2lYrP4iZTon7x70HvLm0SqmT8OA&CMCD=cid%3D%22MXf2v021K3zabLTz3wxh2dvAnRgv1lMD01LK1cqr2aG2E%22%2Csid%3D%2262f1bce3-68bd-46ae-a45d-2f746c6cb24b%22" -o "output.mp4"

Bonus! If you want to download larger streams faster...

You can add --concurrent-fragments NUM to the end of the command (where "NUM" should be replaced by a number, like 5,10,15,etc.

yt-dlp --referer "https://skool.com" "URL" -o "output.mp4" --concurrent-fragments 10

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