cameo.com videos

[rsfinlayson]

Checklist

• [x] I'm reporting a new site support request
• [x] I've verified that I'm running youtube-dl version 2021.05.16
• [x] I've checked that all provided URLs are alive and playable in a browser
• [x] I've checked that none of provided URLs violate any copyrights
• [x] I've searched the bugtracker for similar site support requests including closed ones

Example URLs

• Single video: https://www.cameo.com/v/60aadcf491e5e200248ec034?utm_campaign=video_share_to_copy

Description

Plays in Firefox. youtube-dl returns a HTTP Error 403: Forbidden

[SuperSonicHub1]

@rsfinlayson It would be appreciated if you could share more video links.

[rsfinlayson]

@rsfinlayson It would be appreciated if you could share more video links.

Sorry, but that's the only one I saw.

[SuperSonicHub1]

Did some basic investigation of the URL supplied by @rsfinlayson and here are my findings:

• remember the path segment after /v/ containing the ID (60aadcf491e5e200248ec034)
• get the JSON blob (can include undefined) in a script tag that's assigned to window.__data
  • this regex is nowhere near functional, but it's a start: r"<script charSet=\"UTF-8\">window\.__data=(.*);</script>"
• to get the video with the Cameo watermark: root['orders']['orders'][<id>]['mediaUrl']
• to get the video without the watermark: root['orders']['orders'][<id>]['nakedMediaUrl']
• other attributes of interest at root['orders']['orders'][<id>] include:
  • "thumbnailUrl" and "nakedThumbnailUrl"
  • "_id" (id used in URL) and "id" (internal id)
  • "likes"
  • "mediaDurationInMillis"
  • "mediaResolution"
  • "height"
  • "width"
  • "createdAt", "updatedAt", "completedAt", and "expiresAt"
  • "instructions"
• the creator's name can be fetched from the title:

  <title data-rh="true">Cameo - Cameo by Natasha Henstridge for Adam Carolla</title>

Don't know if I'll make the extractor myself, but I hope I am of help to anyone that does. Should be pretty easy if you can figure out an easy way to drag out that JSON blob.

[SuperSonicHub1]

I've also gathered more URLs. Seeing how Cameo requests seemingly expire, making test cases will probably be pointless, but who cares:

• https://www.cameo.com/v/60aadcf491e5e200248ec034
• https://www.cameo.com/v/60c02236729f43001d146549
• https://www.cameo.com/v/60bfbf7513776a001dca0e09
• https://www.cameo.com/v/609aa14919b053001d539394
• https://www.cameo.com/v/605ff65f31ca4f001d6355f9
• https://www.cameo.com/v/605e1a8063d5cf001df9dc50
• https://www.cameo.com/v/5c17d23060fd1b0103906465

[SuperSonicHub1]

We can also get multiple orders made by a user at once and create a playlist. We'll be using https://www.cameo.com/natashahenstridge as our test case.

• get the JSON blob assigned to window.__data again
• iterate over all keys and values in root['orders']['orders'] and parse them the same way we would a video page

We can also get a lot of information about the user account by looking at the only key in root['users']['users'] which can be retrieved from root['users']['selectedUserId']:

• "name"
• "bio"
• "createdAt"
• "imageUrl"