[Tutor] Download audios & videos using web scraping from news website or facebook

[Mats Wichmann]

On 6/14/19 12:35 AM, Sijin John wrote:
> Hello Sir/Mam, 
> I am trying to Download audios & videos using web scraping from news website (eg: https://www.bbc.com/news/video_and_audio/headlines) or Facebook & I could't. So in real scenario is it really possible to download audios/videos using python code ? 

as others have pointed out, remove the "using python code" from this
question to be more accurate.

Modern media-serving websites often try quite hard to not have you be
able to grab the media objects except on their terms.  This often means
they are delivered in a streaming manner through a (non-open) player
app, and there never is a file at all that you're allowed to directly
access.  And there's often some wrapping which ends up delivering
advertising, because that's probably how the site monetizes their
content.  If you're expected to access it, there's usually an API for
that, which you would use rather than scraping.

Obviously people figure out ways, as the youtube downloader shows.