How to Download Quicktime Trailers from Apple’s Movie Trailers Page

Monday, May 28th, 2007, 11:27 pmRoys

The previous post was for downloading trailers from Yahoo! Movies. This one is for Apple’s Movie Trailers :)

I’m using the Transformers trailers @ Apple’s Movie Trailers as an example here. Below is a brief step-by-step guide on saving the trailer to your harddisk for offline viewing

  1. Go to the trailer page for your favourite movie :D

  2. View the source in your browser of choice and search for .mov. Sometimes there may be more than one match - ignore the ones with words like btn which are the animated movie clips and not the metadata for the actual trailers (usually with words and numbers like e.g 480p, 640, tlr, etc)

    If you see something like QT_WriteOBJECT_XHTML when searching for .mov, you should be able to download the trailer :)

  3. Copy the URL which should look like http://images.apple.com/movies/dreamworks/transformers/transformers-tsr1_h.640.mov and paste into your download manager or browser.
  4. Save the above file and open in a text editor like Notepad.
  5. Search for .mov again. You should see something like transformers-tsr1_h640w.mov which is the actual video filename. (See image below)
  6. Join the URL (sans filename) in 3. and 5. to get http://images.apple.com/movies/dreamworks/transformers/transformers-tsr1_h640w.mov which is the actual trailer URL for download.

NOTE: Not all HD trailers cannot be downloaded by the above method :( I will write more on that soon after I figure out how to download the HD version of that bloody exclusive featurette for Pirates of the Caribbean 3 :)

UPDATE:For exceptions like for the Pirates of the Caribbean 3 featurette, you need to look into the associated Javascript files in the source first (in this case it’s js/hd.js, infer the link to the Quicktime metadata file (hint: ….piratesofthecaribbean3-fte_720p.mov) and follow the steps above starting from step 3 to get your 120+ MB featurette.

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6 comments:

  1. Aen Tan, Tuesday, May 29th, 2007, 5:56 am

    I’m using the Developer Toolbar extension of firefox’s “View generated source” function. It shows the source after verything’s generated by javascript. The .mov url to the movie is there. Very fast.

     
  2. The Elderly, Tuesday, May 29th, 2007, 10:43 am

    bloody brilliant, I was reduced to watching flv’s in a glitchy swiff player and thought that was progress.

     
  3. The Download Munkey, Tuesday, May 29th, 2007, 6:58 pm

    Hi aen, good idea! Unfortunately I’m too tied to my Opera browser :(

    And Elderly, while downloading these trailers may be a lot better than FLVs, your harddisk may not like it :)

     
  4. Kenny, Wednesday, May 30th, 2007, 12:20 am

    Neat find. Thanks alot.

     
  5. The Elderly, Wednesday, May 30th, 2007, 2:24 pm

    it was getting a bit claustraphobic, so i invested in a separate 40gig hardrive… I remember the first day i bought my pc thought 40 gig would last a lifetime…

     
  6. The Download Munkey, Thursday, May 31st, 2007, 6:26 pm

    elderly, 40 gig hdd is a bit too small :( I humbly suggest you get a bigger one right away :)

     

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