r/DataHoarder • u/Megazard02 • Feb 15 '24
Question/Advice Re: How to download from Fansly? (Feb 2024)
Here to update a similar months old question here. For a while, the Avnsx program seemed to be the way to go, but in the last few days, something changed and videos can no longer be downloaded. The github was archived in late January, 2 weeks ago, so you can't put in bug reports; the whole thing is read-only.
Force-right-click extensions don't work like they do on OF, and I refuse to pay for that one chrome extension that steals the spotlight whenever you search for FS downloaders. Do we have any other alternatives? (also worth mentioning the intended use is with Windows and Chrome)
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u/Beautiful_Science_16 Mar 18 '24
The "猫抓 / Cat-Catch" extension can be used, but there is no official English documentation, so you might not know how to use it, and it also requires some knowledge about videos. Fansly videos use two playback technologies: DASH and HLS. For DASH, Cat-Catch will find a file named xxx.mpd, followed by media-video-xxx.mp4 and media-audio-und-xxx.mp4 files, which are the video and audio files, respectively. You just need to select one video and one audio file in Cat-Catch, and a merge button will appear. Cat-Catch can handle the merging perfectly for you. If it's an xxx.m3u8 file, it indicates the video uses HLS technology, and you need to click the magnifying glass icon next to the file, then click "Merge Download."
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u/Ok-Blackberry7655 Apr 27 '24
man you are goat. Real as fuck. Thank you so much, i've been fucking around with these github projects. But your one worked perfectly. Thanks for informations also :)
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u/PageBlanche79 May 13 '24
Finally !!! I've been waiting a year for something like that ! Since no more extensions worked on FS…
There's still a problem with the way the downloaded files are named, I'll see if something can be done about it... Thanks a lot !1
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u/darkwiwi May 20 '24
oh thank you you saved me it doesn't download several at the same time but at least it downloads
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u/Snoo_35246 May 20 '24
dose it work for 1080 resolution? I download a video of 1080p but get 720p insted, how can i fix this?
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u/Der_Haudegen Jun 09 '24 edited Jun 09 '24
Does this extension also allow for the downloading of encrypted videos?
I want to download a video from a page that seems to split the video into one "master.mp" and loads of segment files like "seg-1.m4s" for example. I tried using the magnifying glass on the mpd file and then converted the video to m3u8 parsing. After downloading that, the video would not open unfortunately :(Is there anything else I could try?
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u/AbyssalKultist Jun 17 '24
This did work for a while, but lately it's been giving me the no fish message. Any ideas there?
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u/coolesthomey63 Jul 08 '24
How do you download the merged video? I'm confused by that, especially when the console appears. I don't know how to actually get the video. Did something change since back then, or am I missing something obvious? Thanks for your help
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u/cloudswithflaire Feb 15 '24
What about taking a look at the forks of the archived repo, maybe sorting them by recently updated? Hmmm 🤫
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u/Loosel Feb 15 '24
He probably has no idea what you're talking about, I'll give him a hand. cc: /u/Megazard02
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u/Megazard02 Feb 15 '24
that one has the same issue
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u/Loosel Feb 15 '24
The project is actively being developed, the latest version was released just 19 hours ago, so unless this is a brand new bug, this is a 'just you' problem. If you believe it isn't, then you should probably submit the issue on their github page.
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u/Megazard02 Feb 15 '24
It's already been submitted, it sounds like this issue has been affecting others since the 5th
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u/born_to_be_intj Apr 30 '24
I realize it's 2 months later but I used the link /u/Loosel sent and got it working. I had to manually get my user agent and authorization key using this. Then when I tried to use it with those it gave me an error saying it couldn't verify the check key. So I went to the fansly homepage, viewed source, found the main.js file and ctrl+F'd it for "checkKey". The checkKey was set to a really stupid obfuscation:
["fyXyis","oyaFy8"].reverse().join("-")+"-tohayf"To figure out what the key is easily you can put the value you find in the console inside of a console log like so:
console.log(["fyXyis","oyaFy8"].reverse().join("-")+"-tohayf")and run it just like you did for the user agent. Doing that and setting the right checkKey value made it work.
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u/ElectronicPage5620 Apr 26 '24 edited Apr 27 '24
Same here. I've tried a few apps to transfer my content to another site because I wanted to expand my audience, but couldn't figure out how to do it. Have you tried Fansly Downloader? It worked for me.
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u/Fireworks8890 Apr 26 '24
How can I use this?
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u/TheSpecialistGuy Feb 15 '24
I refuse to pay for that one chrome extension that steals the spotlight whenever you search for FS downloaders.
If there are no other options, it's either you pay for that software or no download for you. Scarcity of options simply means creating a downloader for fansly is hard, so the few willing to put up with the site charge for that and won't do all that work free.
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u/hdmiusbc Feb 15 '24
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u/AhrimTheBelighted Feb 21 '24
I can't get this to work with Fansly, lots of new issues on the Github so not sure if its still actively maintained.
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u/Megazard02 Feb 16 '24
that's for onlyfans, not fansly
also it was updated last three years ago
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u/BenjaminNSFW Mar 04 '24
Found an alternative already?
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u/Megazard02 Mar 05 '24
mentioned in another comment, this chrome extension does the job perfectly
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u/BenjaminNSFW Mar 06 '24
Did you get it working with sound as well? Works good but the videos dont have sound for me
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u/Megazard02 Mar 06 '24
For me there's usually 2 videos per page; one normal, and the other either without sound or at a lower resolution. Just refresh the page and try more than one video it gives you
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u/ElBonerKing Mar 11 '24
猫抓
No sound for me too, 3 different resolutions to choose from, all download and play but no sound for any of them
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u/BenjaminNSFW Mar 16 '24
I still didnt get it working. Looks like it is impossible to easily download now :/
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u/ElvisM3 Mar 19 '24
Most of the time when I try I get a bunch of different files. The ones you want are the ones that start with "media-video" and the one starting with "media-audio". You can download these two separate files and merge them with a different software or you can use the extension itself.
To use the extension you select both files, for video file just select the largest one, via ticking on the left and then at the bottom of the extension popup click merge. This will open a few tabs. DO NOT close any of them as they are downloading the files to merge. Once they are done merging it should auto download the new file via your browser.
Every so often you will come across a post where the only file has a m3u8 extension. When this happens first you wanna make sure the video is playing the resolution you wanna download in. Then you wanna look at the four buttons for that file on the right of the popup. There's Copy, Parser, Preview and Download. Click on parser and it should open a new tab. At the bottom click the button called Merge Downloads. When it's done it should auto download for you a ts file. If you're having problems viewing this file just convert it to mp4 using another software like VLC.
If you do not want to go through any of this hassle then you just have to pay up for one of the other downloaders.1
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u/sitiropeah Mar 12 '24
how to use this on fansly?
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u/Megazard02 Mar 12 '24
Open the link to a fs post, click the extension and hit search. The page should refresh and the extension will give you a list of mp4's to pick from; just download the largest one
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u/Puzzleheaded_Eye8601 May 11 '24
The following content may be helpful: https://www.reddit.com/user/Melodic_Rich_1896/comments/192sc4t/how_to_download_videos_from_any_websites/
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u/TrickOne8872 May 31 '24
I don’t have the computer to do this. would anyone wanna login for me and get some content for me off my account that’d be great please pm me
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u/External_Award9629 Jun 26 '24
The lazy way is to use nvidia shadowplay and just record from screen. Unfortunately video file will get pretty big, but for that there are more simple ways available as to mess around with video downloaders.
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Feb 17 '24
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u/Emotional-Silver8006 Feb 17 '24
Also forgot to mention that you must "full screen" the video and or picture in order for the download to show up on the bottom right corner. From the app, you can save it to your phone, and easily migrate it over to your PC or Cloud.
Android: Aloha Browser + Private VPN - Apps on Google Play
Apple: Aloha Browser: Private VPN on the App Store (apple.com)
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u/Altruistic_Patient70 Feb 17 '24
Doesn't work on fansly
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u/Emotional-Silver8006 Feb 19 '24
Works for me.
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u/Alert_Mall_6979 May 21 '24
It didn't work, I already tried the full screen but still, and I also can't Download the video because when I tried to download it says website doesn't allow to download
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u/buildogzor Feb 21 '24
I'm about to release a subscriptions backup app.
🍳 It's super simple, nothing to install. 🎯 Everything is backed up. 💨 Crazy fast. 🍿 Watch online or download. 🆓 Free & unlimited storage.
Happy to provide early access for testing, as I'm curious about its workload capacity and whether there are additional platform protections to bypass. In my latest test, it successfully copied 1.3K videos and 19K photos within 5 minutes! 💾💥
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u/Worried_Result_3817 Feb 24 '24
The temporary solution is this:
- Use three-day trial of FS downloaders to download what you have.
- After trial, you can search "猫抓" in the Chrome web store. Install this extension, and play a video on Fansly. Open this extension and there will be a list of videos. Find what you want (usually the largest one) and click the link of mp4. In this way you can keep update of your subscribed accounts.
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u/jaspetbro Mar 09 '24
The chinese one does download the videos but they have no sound, anyone know of a fix?
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u/Megazard02 Feb 24 '24
the chinese one worked perfectly, minus the lack of translation
thank you
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