We will explain how to download a video from Tumblr, which by default adds a level of security to your videos so that their download is not as easy as clicking and downloading. However, there are other methods by which it is possible to ignore this protection quite easily.
We will explain two different methods. First, we explain how to inspect the Tumblr Web site with Chrome to find and extract the video you want to download while ignoring the protections, then we’ll also explain how to simplify the process by using other tools such as websites or mobile applications.
Download videos from Tumblr with Chrome
To download a video directly using Chrome, you must first go to the post of the post where the video is located. To do this, press the options button and click on the Copy link address option. With it, you will have the URL of the post and you will have to open it in a Chrome tab.
Once the video page is displayed, right-click on the web and select the Inspect option shown last. With this option, you will open the Chrome console, which will appear on the right side of the card you opened.
In the inspector, open the Items tab you go to by default. In it, press Ctrl + F to open the search engine and search for one of these two terms- video or mp4. In the results, you need to find a URL whose name ends with .mp4, since it is the format in which Tumblr uploads videos.
Once you’ve found the video, right- click on your address and copy it. The bad news is that you will have to copy the entire item, including the code that does not belong to the video. So for the next step, you’ll need to know how to identify just the video URL.
Now you have to paste the video URL into a new browser tab, in this case, it doesn’t matter which one. Of all the code you copied, the video URL is the one that starts with https:// and ends with .mp4, and should have a structure like a capture. Once the “naked” video is opened without protection, just right-click on it and choose the save option to download it to your computer.
You can also use specific tools
If you don’t want to complicate your life too much, you can also download videos with other specific tools for desktops or mobile devices. You can use websites like TubeOffline and apps like Tumbloader for Android or Tyblr for iOS. Let’s start with the TubeOffline website, where you simply paste the URL of the post where the video is located, choose the quality and click on the GET video button.
Now, if you use TubeOffline or some other similar application, after writing the address they will search for the video for you and take you to a page where they offer the download. In it, simply click on the Download button to download.
As for mobile applications, they can work in different ways. On the one hand, you have some like the already mentioned Tumbloader for Android, where you simply have to open the app and insert the link. There are also other very simple apps that work like the website we just mentioned.
With the first method mentioned above, you don’t need to download any application and you don’t even have the risk of making suspicious or malicious downloads.
