Before we give you the fix, you need to understand why your old bookmarklet or website stopped working. The keyword here is because the architecture changed.
: If you are trying to bypass regional blocks, some downloaders may fail to authenticate your session correctly while a VPN is active. Legal & Safety Note
: ThisVid generates temporary playback tokens. A common "fix" in downloader updates is a routine that refreshes these tokens before they expire during a long download.
class ThisVidIE(InfoExtractor): _VALID_URL = r'https?://thisvid\.com/videos/(?P<id>\d+)/' def _real_extract(self, url): video_id = self._match_id(url) webpage = self._download_webpage(url, video_id, headers= 'Cookie': self._get_cookies(url), 'Referer': 'https://thisvid.com/' )
You are not alone. Over the past six months, ThisVid has rolled out significant backend changes, including tokenized streaming URLs and session-based authentication that break nearly every legacy downloader.
