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how can I download Instagram live streams that are in MPEG-DASH - .mpd format? e.g : https://scontent.cdninstagram.com/hvideo-odn-cln/_nc_cat-111/v/rTzYdr0SduizJODiyq2MC/_nc_ohc-CDh-Ms32OqIAX9arrQ1/live-dash/dash-hd/17934656539854498.mpd?ccb=2-4&ms=m_CNP&sc_t=1&oh=00_AT9SLgwDTnjyubPMIc64761h9F1BuoeVxDNIW0o3VAQ_vA&oe=620833DE

[Ho3einWave]

there is any way to download it in mp4 in nodejs?

I don’t think there’s a package that does this yet. However you can port the functionality to node. There are mpd-parsers and even ffmpeg wrappers.

I will try to port this python script into node; if I get any helpful results, I will share it here

[Nerixyz]

I just noticed, that VLC can play the livestream fine. VLC also has the feature of converting video. These combined worked fine for me in saving the stream to an mp4 file. Though the ending of the livestream is always an issue. There you have to first stop the “playback” aka. conversion and it will write a valid file.

There’s one issue I noticed though: VLC will always select the first representation for the video stream. This however isn’t the best one. The best one for me was always last. So one might need to rewrite the .mpd requests/responses and remove all representations but the best one (or find the option that selects the representation for VLC).