What is the url of the individual video uploaded in a page?

I have a video uploaded in a page. How do I provide a link to video? (not to the page where the video lives, but to the specific video).

How did you upload video?

I clicked Video, and then Add Video.

https://www.hellencolman.com/no-injury

The video is scrolling down, right- this is exactly the problem I have, I cannot write a link to just the video.

On 1/24/2023 at 8:56 AM, Hellen said:

I clicked Video, and then Add Video.

https://www.hellencolman.com/no-injury

The video is scrolling down, right- this is exactly the problem I have, I cannot write a link to just the video.

 

You mean get video url, or make video clickable to custom url?

I want to know what is the url of the video.

As I said in my original post: if I want to give the link to my video to someone, what url that would be?

Hi,

Video url has been encoded in this way, there is no way to get video url

I Usually upload file (video, code, image, pdf...) use this way, then I can get its url

https://support.squarespace.com/hc/en-us/articles/205813928-Uploading-and-managing-files

This looks like a (complicated) solution to the (simple) problem. But I cannot pass the first step. How do I add a Video Page? I do not see the "Videos" option that the page you linked mentions.

14 minutes ago, Hellen said:

I do not see the "Videos" option that the page you linked mentions.

Sadly, this means you are on Squarespace version 7.0. It doesn't have videos pages 🥲

Sadly... they expect me to REBUILD my website to get the 7.1 upgrade??? From scratch? There is no way to move all pages, galleries, etc? 

I think I am done with square space. 7.0 is super rigid and the upgrade to a more flexible one is not available to ones that have been paying for years?

SS should do a little better than this. 

Hi,

Is there a way to find out the direct path of a video file uploaded in media library. something like: 

<video loop>
      <source src="https://<filepath>/<filename>.mp4" type="video/mp4">
    </video>

Thanks

5 hours ago, yshahi said:

Is there a way to find out the direct path of a video file uploaded in media library

No. As explained above, a Squarespace do not make a video URL available. Instead they stream the video file using a Blob URL that is only valid for the user's session.

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On 2/19/2023 at 3:17 PM, Hellen said:

7.0 is super rigid and the upgrade to a more flexible one is not available to ones that have been paying for years?

SS should do a little better than this.

It took a long time but there is now an update path for some v7.0 sites using particular templates.

On 1/24/2023 at 8:56 AM, Hellen said:

I clicked Video, and then Add Video.

https://www.hellencolman.com/no-injury

The video is scrolling down, right- this is exactly the problem I have, I cannot write a link to just the video.

 

@Hellen

May I chime in here, videos uploaded to Video blocks, Section background and Asset library are played as HLS stream, the real path of the video is .m3u8, thus leads to the blob: video src you found when inspecting the video blocks

Each video uploaded to Squarespace has their unique path, which can be used to play if you append the file name /playlist.m3u8, but the problem is you can not give this to someone and let them play on the browser, because most of browsers do not support playing streaming file out of the box. 

You can either open these type of stream using application like VLC media player, or use a web player that support it, for example: https://livepush.io/hls-player/index.html

I used your video stream URL https://video.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5bf795d379cf1bffc9756c/492aebc7-8f61-4541-9cca-7a549d9067ca/playlist.m3u8 and making an embed player like so: https://player.livepush.io/emvn0w7EZVmTZ

How did I get your video URL?

It is shown directly in the video blocks, just right click on the video and click Inspect, the data-poster attribute will contains the thumbnail URL, for example:

https://video.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5bf795d379cf1bffc9756c/492aebc7-8f61-4541-9cca-7a549d9067ca/thumbnail

now you got the video thumbnail URL, let's replace the thumbnail with playlist.m3u8 and you got the streaming URL!

I did enlist the above as Method 3 in my post How to upload and get video links on Squarespace, and will make a detail post about the method soon

It worth noting that Squarespace is not a video hosting provider, so you should not use the links above to your main video source, at it is stated in the documentation page https://support.squarespace.com/hc/en-us/articles/206544187-Video-blocks

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• If your uploaded video receives an extremely large number of views over a short time, we may not continue to support it. In such cases, we'll contact you directly to discuss the best hosting options for you.

I made a detail post on this matter on How to Find the Direct URL of Squarespace hosted videos

Also Copy URLs for quickly grabbing video links is made possible

On 6/8/2024 at 3:36 AM, Beyondspace said:

Also Copy URLs for quickly grabbing video links is made possible

Hi @Beyondspace where do you see the COPY VIDEO URL?

I only see this:

14 minutes ago, RolandFuseHub said:

Hi @Beyondspace where do you see the COPY VIDEO URL?

I only see this:

It is feature made possible with the plugin, have you install it and still not see the buttons?

3 minutes ago, Beyondspace said:

It is feature made possible with the plugin, have you install it and still not see the buttons?

I see the buttons after installing the code in the footer, but nothing is being copied if I click the options.

17 minutes ago, RolandFuseHub said:

I see the buttons after installing the code in the footer, but nothing is being copied if I click the options.

 

 

I see, will check it out

1 hour ago, Noha said:

Right-click the video to copy its URL, or inspect the page source to find the video file link (e.g., ending in .mp4).

 

There is no mp4 link when right click, videos on sqs is uploaded as hls format

2 hours ago, Beyondspace said:

I see, will check it out

Thanks!!! Looking forward to a fix.

12 hours ago, RolandFuseHub said:

Thanks!!! Looking forward to a fix.

It is fixed, kindly refresh the Asset Library screen and let me know if you use the buttons now

Thanks for the bug report though

Working on Chrome.. Safari doesn't seem to copy the URL.

Even though you can copy and paste the https://video.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66e76... /playlist.m3u8 URL, you can't use this in a video player, correct? 

On 9/17/2024 at 11:24 PM, RolandFuseHub said:

Working on Chrome.. Safari doesn't seem to copy the URL.

Even though you can copy and paste the https://video.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66e76... /playlist.m3u8 URL, you can't use this in a video player, correct? 

It needs a js player with hls support, does not work with regular HTML5 video element out of the box

2 hours ago, Beyondspace said:

Yes it needs a js player with hls support

Upload videos in custom files or link manager if you need the origin videos files (mp4...)