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    copied!<p>In learning more about web scraping, I'm attempting to directly access the video file here <a href="http://video.disney.com/watch/disneychannel-no-service-4df889ed3d82b43c9c01a272" rel="nofollow">http://video.disney.com/watch/disneychannel-no-service-4df889ed3d82b43c9c01a272</a></p> <p>What is the direct the link? And how did you derive it?<BR></p> <p>UPDATE : after following the answer below the URL is <a href="http://cdn.videos.dolimg.com/channel_shortform/unknown/i29083/869089-tpr_hi29083_gdj-h264m_aac_848x480_904x96.mp4" rel="nofollow">http://cdn.videos.dolimg.com/channel_shortform/unknown/i29083/869089-tpr_hi29083_gdj-h264m_aac_848x480_904x96.mp4</a></p> <p>The inspector gives me the following 'Query String Parameters'. </p> <pre><code>app:w88_dolwa_prod02 trckTp:trackvideo vendorLst:c,n,o lSwid:AA50B128-8C31-4B59-A487-019721763B4A pgVwId:cto-1372188161916-8691154154948 fullPgNm:dcom|dch|watch:disneychannel-no-service-4df889ed3d82b43c9c01a272|disneychannel-no-service-4df889ed3d82b43c9c01a272 arPgNm:na plgId:7173e513b73b5ca23f3b93fbb4664f0be83c0df8 ua:Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/27.0.1453.116 Safari/537.36 res:1440x900 cod:32 eventLst:e1,e73,e68 categoryCd:dcom siteCd:dch brdcrums:watch:disneychannel-no-service-4df889ed3d82b43c9c01a272 buId:4b90600fa5ba550f422a8ba2 propId:4bdfd35102a87496bbe03d00 buCd:dch mstCd:mic templateTp:watch ASSETID:0_y1nplyhi KSESSIONID:4ca7bebd-9389-893f-ed7a-de46a7d4928c KSESSIONSEQ:1 KDPEVNT:percentReached KDPDAT_VALUE:0 KDPDAT_PLAYHEAD:0 ASSETNAME:vid|dch|dmms|shr|0_y1nplyhi|No Service AUTO:true KDPPROTO:Flash assetNm:vid|dch|dmms|shr|0_y1nplyhi|no service adPgNm:/7046/dch/mickey-mouse/video adSzLst:300x60,970x90,970x66,728x90 url:http://video.disney.com/watch/disneychannel-no-service-4df889ed3d82b43c9c01a272 urlDom:disney.com urlFDom:video.disney.com urlFDom1:video.disney.com/watch refUrl:na sessionData:no_dolWASessionData_cookie visitorData:no_dolWAVisitorData_cookie logStatus:lo|nr prevPgNm:dcom|dch|watch:disneychannel-no-service-4df889ed3d82b43c9c01a272|disneychannel-no-service-4df889ed3d82b43c9c01a272 VIDLEN:210 GENTIME:1372188203486 GENTITLE:No Service | Mickey Mouse and Friends | Disney Video GENURL:http://video.disney.com/watch/disneychannel-no-service-4df889ed3d82b43c9c01a272 DEVID:-1 USRAGNT:Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/27.0.1453.116 Safari/537.36 WIGID:1959 BITRATE:1000 KDPID:1959 mediaSumm:vid|dch|dmms|shr|0_y1nplyhi|No Service--**--210--**--dch--**--0--**--1372188203486--**--S0L0 accnt:disneyvideo2 brndSeg: </code></pre>
 

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