Update: Please see this blog post on how to get direct downloading to work again: Apple Trailer Links Are Working
Direct download links for HD trailers on Apple are currently busted. From their tweet, it looks like the change was made to deal with the influx of user traffic/bandwidth for the Avatar trailer:
Adjustments made to support additional #Avatar teaser trailer traffic now live http://tinyurl.com/avatarteaser/ #avatarmovie
It looks like one of the adjustments they made was to only allow Quicktime to download the trailer. Any web browser will be automatically redirected to the Apple – Movie Trailers’ homepage.
If you have a download utility or are able to spoof the User Agent in your browser (i.e. User Agent Switcher for Firefox), you can still get around this.
The user agent my Quicktime uses is:
QuickTime/7.6.2 (qtver=7.6.2;os=Windows NT 5.1Service Pack 3)
I’ve confirmed you don’t actually need the content inside the parenthesis: ()
Using wget, I was able to download the Avatar 1080p trailer with:
wget -U "QuickTime/7.6.2" http://www.apple.com/movies/fox/avatar/avatar2009aug0820a-tsr_h1080p.mov
Update #2: You can also use curl (comes with Mac OSX) to download using the following command:
curl -A "QuickTime/7.6.2" http://www.apple.com/movies/fox/avatar/avatar2009aug0820a-tsr_h1080p.mov
Update: If you want to use the User Agent Switcher for Firefox, you’ll first need to install the extension. After installing the extension, go to Tools > Default User Agent > Edit User Agents…
Create a new User Agent by clicking on New > New User Agent… Clear out all the fields and copy and paste QuickTime/7.6.2 into the Description and User Agent fields.
Switch to the newly created QuickTime/7.6.2 User Agent by selecting it from the Tools > Default User Agent menu. Now you should be able to click/save Apple HD trailers from our site as you normally did before. Remember to switch back to the Default User Agent after you’re done saving trailers.
Update #3: Found this page that’ll teach you step by step on how to change your user agent in the following browsers: Firefox, Opera, and Internet Explorer: Switching User Agents.
Let’s just hope this is temporary or else it’d be quite inconvenient for users to download HD trailers from Apple anymore.
Thursday, 20. August 2009
I was wondering what was up. Thanks for the info. Agent switcher worked great.
Thursday, 20. August 2009
If only Agent Switcher would remember which User Agent string on which sites. Apparently it’s already on its TO DO list: Allow configuration of the user agent automatically on a per-domain basis
Thursday, 20. August 2009
excellent, thank you very much. i got this to work on OS X 10.5.8 with wget (wget for mac from statusq.org). now to convert to DIVX and transfer it to my ps3!
Thursday, 20. August 2009
@ blueshifter
FYI, the provided MP4 encodes are compatible with the PS3 (and Xbox 360).
Thursday, 20. August 2009
Thank goodness for good ole wget.
Friday, 21. August 2009
Ok, how did you dowload the trl using User Agent?
Friday, 21. August 2009
You would need to create a new User Agent string with just:
QuickTime/7.6.2Switch to the newly created User Agent. Then try right clicking and saving.
Friday, 21. August 2009
I’ve added additional instructions for using curl and User Agent Switcher for Firefox to the blog post.
Friday, 21. August 2009
@alex
Really? I can’t get that to work. I put the Avatar 1080p file on a USB drive, but the ps3 won’t see the .mov file. I renamed it to .mp4, it still plays on the mac as an ‘mpeg-4′ movie, but transferring that one to the ps3 shows it as ‘corrupted data’, and it won’t play.
The DIVX converted file did play, however. I use MediaLink to stream that over the air from the mac to the ps3. But i’d love to know how to get the .mov files to play on the ps3, will def save me lots of conversion time. thanks!
Friday, 21. August 2009
I wondered why my download in quicktime suddenly flew at full speed yesterday. I wasn’t too sure what exactly the tweet meant.
Friday, 21. August 2009
Works excellent, thanks a lot mate.
Friday, 21. August 2009
@ blueshifter
You need to download the 1080p file that’s under the MP4 Encode section. Those will work on the PS3; they are already converted to .mp4 from the original .mov file so you don’t have to.
Saturday, 22. August 2009
If anyone is having trouble using curl to download the files, remember to use single quotation marks around the Quicktime part.
Saturday, 22. August 2009
Any idea how to customize user agent in opera browser?
Saturday, 22. August 2009
@adam Good call, I’ll fix my command.
@phonik I found this page that may help you: Switching User Agents
Sunday, 23. August 2009
MOV DownLoad Tool (download the real file from browsers / QT plugin) was updated the day after this post : it also solves the issue described here. You can launch this stand-alone version (1.2.0) in order to update the QuickTime Alternative pack.
Sunday, 23. August 2009
@Oz I presume you mean this tool: MOV Download Tool
Sunday, 23. August 2009
nice one..user agent extension work great..thanks
Monday, 24. August 2009
I’ve downloaded and installed the latest version of QuickTime Alternative (2.9.2 at http://www.codecguide.com/download_qt.htm ) and I can view/download Apple HD trailers again. Either it’s the new version of QTA (and QT Lite) or Apple has changed the set-up of the site…
Monday, 24. August 2009
@s|b: Must be something to do with the latest version of QuickTime Alternative. I just a random Apple trailer and still get redirected to their homepage.
When you say you can view/download Apple HD trailers again, how exactly are you viewing/downloading it?
Monday, 24. August 2009
How about using Flashget to download???
Tuesday, 25. August 2009
@RUGRLN: I searched online for a bit, but unfortunately didn’t find a way to set the user agent for Flashget.
Tuesday, 25. August 2009
@RUGRLN: There might actually be a way. I was searching on how to change user agents with Flash and landed on this FAQ page: How come some files can ONLY be downloaded by using the browser?
Tuesday, 25. August 2009
@ Krunk
I use Mozilla Firefox 3.5.2 to go to apple.com/trailers. I select a trailer and choose HD. The HD trailer is downloaded (through QuickTime Alternative, something called MOV Download Tool) and after download it’s played with Media Player Classic.
I just downloaded (and viewed) the HD trailer of ‘Gamer’ (480p) without a problem.
Tuesday, 25. August 2009
thanks for this!! works in orbit downloader by entering the user agent
cheers!
Tuesday, 25. August 2009
@s|b: Has that ever stopped working for you? That scenario you describe was never really broken. When you click on a trailer on Apple’s website, what you’re downloading is a shortcut file containing information of where the real video is. Firefox then passes that onto QuickTime (or QuickTime Alternative) and that is what is downloading the actual video, so the user agent would’ve always been correct.
Tuesday, 25. August 2009
@ Krunk
Yes, this stopped working (with QuickTime Alternative 2.9.0) a couple of days ago. Download would be very fasted (of course, the complete file wasn’t downloaded), but MPC wouldn’t render the ‘unknown’ file. That’s how I stumbled upon your site.
The I saw QuickTime Alternative 2.9.2 was available. I downloaded and installed (settings are saved during upgrade) and now it works again.
Changelog for 2.9.0 > 2.9.2
* Updated Media Player Classic to version 6.4.9.1 rev. 104
* Updated MOV Download Tool to version 1.2.0
It must have been the change to MOV Download Tool that did it…
Tuesday, 25. August 2009
@slb: My guess would be that the updated QuickTime Alternative fixed its issue where it wasn’t providing QuickTime as the user agent when it tried to download. If you had the real QuickTime installed, the scenario you described was always working.
Wednesday, 26. August 2009
Direct downloads work again if you modify the domain: http://www.hd-trailers.net/blog/2009/08/26/apple-trailer-links-are-working/
Sunday, 30. August 2009
Muchasm gracias, me solucionaron el problema =)
Sunday, 30. August 2009
Great article , worked for me
Thanks
Monday, 31. August 2009
Here’s a script that to do this from the terminal:
http://linuxtidbits.wordpress.com/2009/08/30/download-apple-trailer-fix/
Thursday, 3. September 2009
@Krunk
First of all i wanna thank u for alll the valuable information… Mine is a completely different issue.. We have .mov extension blocked here in our network. Initially i followed your suggestion and i gave that direct link to the http://www.netload.in remote uploading. There by i used to get a .html from netload instead of .mov file from apple. But due to the current changes i am unable to upload the trailer into netload as “adding h in between url ” is not working.. i tried the user Agent Switcher but couldn’t d/l as .mov extension is blocked here in out ntwk. I request you to help me find a solution for this … thanks in advance….
Thursday, 3. September 2009
@Deepak
If I understand you correctly, your work firewall blocks out .mov requests, so you use netload.in’s remote upload as a bypass mechanism.
Unfortunately due to this recent change where they’re enforcing QuickTime user agent, you’ve been unable to use netload.in to bypass your work firewall.
Have you tried changing the domain as suggested here: http://www.hd-trailers.net/blog/2009/08/26/apple-trailer-links-are-working/
If you change movies.apple.com to http://www.apple.com, you don’t need to set the user agent and netload.in should work as previously.
Thursday, 3. September 2009
@Krunk
Thanks for the immediate response. I tried the way that you suggested to replace movies.apple.com/* url with http://www.apple.com/* . However it worked for only files of 480p resolution(might be due to less size). If i follow the same process uploading this url in netload.in for 1080p.. then i am getting the following error…
“The following error was encountered:
* Zero Sized Reply
Squid did not receive any data for this request. ”
I request you to kindly look into the this issue and help me.
Thanks & Regards,
Deepak
Friday, 4. September 2009
@Deepak: Not really sure what else I can do. You should try to contact netload.in and see what the error message means. I’ve been able to download directly using http://www.apple.com for all 3 resolutions w/o any problems.
Tuesday, 8. September 2009
Damn. Stupid me. I should’ve done the google search three weeks ago. Fixed my download-and-view script, and it now plays nicely.
Wednesday, 7. October 2009
just use getright !!
change the user agent to “QuickTime/7.6.2 (qtver=7.6.2;os=Windows NT 5.1Service Pack 3)” and there you go.
works like a charm !
Wednesday, 7. October 2009
Hey guys,
You can download the trailers with iTunes application. Just sign as US. And start to download what you want
Wednesday, 11. November 2009
There are other ways to get those files from Apple – the easiest is to download them through the itunes store. They’re free and are available at the same time as the ones on the website. I also have updated to Snow Leopard and using Quicktime X – which lets you save movies without having to upgrade to the pro version. I haven’t had any problems getting these movies and playing them on my xbox from a USB thumb drive.
Friday, 13. November 2009
I think using the latest version of Quicktime alternative is the best option. I had been using it for so long … then suddenly it stopped working. Then I followed the message
[Oz
Sunday, 23. August 2009]
I was astonished to find a new version of QT Alternative (2nd November). I downloaded it just to test. It also installed itself (as always) as firefox’s addin.
Then I went to the Apple.com clicked on the trailer and … it started downloading the trailer… just like old times… I think everyone should try it instead of using command line tools… giving manual urls.. etc… just install this… point and click… and save…
Following the link by Krunk in Post #17
Thursday, 19. November 2009
It works like a charm.. Tanx
Monday, 23. November 2009
I have found a good solution for multi-threaded downloading from apple.
For those curious the programs listed in this guide are completely safe and contain no Adware/Spyware.
Needed:
DownloadStudio: http://hotfile.com/dl/7893536/ad0fb40/downstudio-TE.rar.html
Install Instructions:
Install Winrar http://www.rarlab.com/download.htm to extract the files.
View Install instructions on the nfo file “te.nfo” with http://www.softpedia.com/get/Office-tools/Text-editors/DAMN-NFO-Viewer.shtml
Once downloaded and installed, in DownloadStudio, select Tools, expand Options, select HTTP and change “HTTP protocol user agent” to “QuickTime/7.6.2″ without quotes.
If you do not have your Firefox user agent set to QuickTime/7.6.2 you WILL NOT be able to initiate downloads from Firefox to DownloadStudio. I suggest you download https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/59 and follow the guide above. If not you can just paste the Apple links into DownloadStudio.
To paste the links, copy the link locations from http://www.davestrailerpage.co.uk/ or anywhere ever else that has direct links to the apple trailers and manually paste them in DownloadStudio. There is a +Add button at the top right of the program.
Now you will be able to download the trailers at max speed with multithreading.
Friday, 11. December 2009
Just change the user agent in Getright to “QuickTime/7.6.2 (qtver=7.6.2;os=Windows NT 5.1Service Pack 3)” and add an h like this: http://movies.apple.com/movies/newline/mysisterskeeper/mysisterskeeper-tlr1_h480p.mov
Good luck!
Friday, 18. December 2009
Thanks Dan, worked!
Friday, 18. December 2009
I’ve made a little bat script so you only need to enter the url and it downloads using wget.
set INPUT=
set /P INPUT=Type input: %=%
C:\Program Files\GnuWin32\bin\wget -U “QuickTime/7.6.2 (qtver=7.6.2;os=Windows NT 5.1Service Pack 3)” %INPUT%
@pause
Friday, 18. December 2009
has anyone been able to download the Iron Man 2 trailer
via setting the User Agent to QuickTime/7.6.2 and using the link
http://movies.apple.com/movies/paramount/ironman2/ironman2-tlr1_h1080p.mov
or
http://movies.apple.com/movies/paramount/ironman2/ironman2-z7r459g-tlr1_h1080p.mov
??
neither one works for me. :-/
Saturday, 19. December 2009
for enrico – Yes. This worked for me (Mac OS 10.6)
curl -O -A “QuickTime/7.6.2″ http://movies.apple.com/movies/paramount/ironman2/ironman2-z7r459g-tlr1_h1080p.mov
Saturday, 19. December 2009
I made a little Windows tool to download trailers from Apple (also supports other pages):
Screenshot: http://i46.tinypic.com/2jeokdu.png
Download: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=D9ZMZY6E
Instructions: Copy a web site URL such as http://www.apple.com/trailers/paramount/ironman/ or http://www.hd-trailers.net/movie/avatar/ (i.e. a page where the trailers are linked) or a direct mov URL such as http://largeassets.myspacecdn.com/creative/hd/avatar_trlr/100256822_720p.mov and click Continue!
Saturday, 19. December 2009
I used to be able to do a ‘properties’ on a link, and paste it into Net Transport, adding the ‘h’ as described above, and download just fine. Now that doesn’t work anymore, even with all the various methods mentioned above. I am able to D/L using Windows, but it’s so much slower than Net Transport! Anyone know how to get Net Transport to D/L apple trailers?
Monday, 21. December 2009
As of today the latest tweaks do not work anymore. You now need a referrer URL in addition to the spoof user agent.
wget -U “QuickTime/7.6.5 (qtver=7.6.5;os=Windows NT 5.1Service Pack 3)” –referer=”movies.apple.com” http://movies.apple.com/movies/paramount/ironman2/ironman2-z7r459g-tlr1_h1080p.mov
At least we don’t need yet to provide a cookie…
Monday, 21. December 2009
Hmmmm….
I’m not having issues with the referrer. I even tried setting the referrer to http://www.hd-trailers.net and was able to download it.
curl -I -A QuickTime -e http://www.hd-trailers.net http://movies.apple.com/movies/paramount/ironman2/ironman2-z7r459g-tlr1_h1080p.mov
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
X-Cache-TTL: 3345
Content-Length: 198212327
Content-Type: video/quicktime
Server: Apache/2.2.11 (Unix)
Last-Modified: Thu, 17 Dec 2009 02:32:12 GMT
ETag: W/”bd07ae7-47ae36e356300″
X-Cached-Time: Thu, 17 Dec 2009 02:36:27 GMT
Cache-Control: max-age=2100
Expires: Tue, 22 Dec 2009 03:33:14 GMT
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2009 02:58:14 GMT
Connection: keep-alive
Tuesday, 22. December 2009
So far the current workaround of setting the user agent is working, and you don’t have to put the referrer either. In addition, in one instance I didn’t even have to put the ‘h’ before the ‘480p’. I’ve found the easiest is just to copy the link into an download accelerator like Orbit and then on the ‘browser context’ tab paste the user agent ‘QuickTime/7.6.2′. For Flashget you have to put the user agent in the ‘Protocol’ section under Options’.
Thursday, 24. December 2009
In trying to download the Avatar trailer so I could show my kids the next day without waiting for my G5 to re-download and wait, I stumbled across this blog page. Trying various methods (like Jing for screencapture; having problem saving to hd, though), I thought I’d try something that used to work. I successfully downloaded the 720p version of this trailer by looking in my QT cache and looking for the temp file that was DATED last and verifying the download (as it was downloading) by its size. So, this seems to work. Just sayin’
The cache file name will be a random string of numbers and letters. I simply selected the cache file, copied it from my Library>caches>QuickTime>(folder containing the file; you have to manually search for it) to my desktop. There, I renamed it Avatar trailer and added the extension .mov
When my comp asked if I wanted to change the extension to .mov from whatever it was, I simply clicked yes. That did it.
Michael
Thursday, 24. December 2009
Okay, scratch my comment. I had it working when I copied partials (to double check) but once completed and copied+renamed, QT tells me the file is not a movie file. So, guess it didn’t work. Maybe someone can take what I did and figure out and endgame to this method.
Sorry
Friday, 25. December 2009
@Michael, Thanks for the tip. I’ll check it out when I get a chance.
Friday, 25. December 2009
Thx alot it’s workin
Wednesday, 30. December 2009
You could use my Firefox extension: http://addons.mozilla.org/en-Us/firefox/addon/5258.
It’ll show a small menu with the link to the video file.
Wednesday, 30. December 2009
Fabio;
got your reply and tried the adon; not working with either Safari nor Firefox. Having the link didn’t give me any file to download in Safari’s Activity window and in Firefox, using DownloadThemAll gave only an 81k file. Where is this small menu supposed to appear? When I right click, I don’t get anything other than save the link in various ways. Point is, I need a download file url for the full 150+Mb clip, in this case. I can get the whole file in the QT cache, but something happens once the browser is closed and I’ve renamed the file with the extension .mov to insure QT will open it up again. When I click, let’s say, on the 720p option at Apple’s trailer website for Avatar, Qt wants to play it for me. If I can get the browser to play it, there should be a file loading as viewed through Activity window of the Safari browser. The name of the link is there, but no .swf, .mov, .mp4 etc file shows. Qt is in control at this point, which is why I went looking in the Library>caches>quicktime and rooted about for the latest cache item over 10mb. I can find it, but can’t seem to save it AS A MOVIE file after the browser is closed.
But, if you can run me through an exact procedure whereby your adon works, by all means, ’splain away, Lucy!’
Friday, 1. January 2010
@Michael, does any of your attempts involve changing the user-agent?
Friday, 1. January 2010
The way I found the easiest of batch downloading trailers was to do it like this:
Get wget for windows
make a batch file (.bat) in the wget directory
copy/paste as many lines of ‘wget -U “QuickTime/7.6.2″‘ as you need
Go to apple.com/trailers, search for the trailers I wanted (in HD), open them in tabs, copy/paste the 720p links
Then when I had all the desired trailers I’d replace ‘_720p’ with ‘_h720p’.
Run the script, and voila – it’s automatically downloading all the trailers you picked.
Friday, 1. January 2010
Oh and sometimes when you get brought to a fanart-like page with no direct links to the trailers except for ones that open them in quicktime, add ‘/hd’ to the url and it’ll take you to the regular download page most of the time.
Friday, 1. January 2010
Krunk,
I’m not using anything related to ‘user agent’; I’m just finding the QT cache and when I see one that is most recent and a very large file, I copy it to my desktop (usually, this is a partial as I look while it’s still downloading to play through QT) and then, if I double click the file, it plays. But then, when the file is complete and I copy that, then rename it including adding the extension .mov, upon trying to open it, QT tells me it’s not a movie format. Soooo, that’s the process I went through. Something changes when the browser is shut down because the partial IS the movie exactly as I’m seeing it in QT.
Friday, 1. January 2010
@Michael, I guess my question to you is given that you’re willing to try other programs to download these trailers, is there a reason you don’t want to use the user-agent method, which is guaranteed to work?
The QT cache method is interesting, but as you noted, QT corrupts the file by the time it finishes downloading it.
Saturday, 2. January 2010
Krunk;
No, I don’t have an aversion per se to using other programs and I will probably give the other a try, I just thought there was an easy fix that didn’t include yet another program. I used to be able to grab the odd video clip from the Activity window and it’s pretty simple, but this hd trailer was so much better re quality, I thought to try and save it and the usual method isn’t working. Just thought there was an easier workaround but will give the other a try.
I also figured there were smarter people than myself that might know exactly what is happening re the cache/activity window and thought I’d step in line and learn something, ya know? No disrespect meant, either! I’ll give the other a try. Btw, is it going to work on my G5?
Saturday, 2. January 2010
Krunk;
Added the user switcher to Firefox (3.5.6). Could you walk me through the procedure? I don’t usually dl using FF (I usually use Safari on my G5 iMac, running Tiger) and don’t have the method for dl with FF. I’m using QT 7.5 and not the pro version, which allows me to dl and save directly from QT (as opposed to the regular version that I’m using). So, the problem is saving in QT since the movies are not playing in FF.
Thanks.
Saturday, 2. January 2010
This site has a step-by-step instruction on setting it up with Firefox: http://whatsmyuseragent.com/SwitchingUserAgents.asp#FF
As noted above:
Let me know if you need more help.
Saturday, 2. January 2010
Krunk;
I installed the adon (user switcher) and still get the clip playing in QT. How am I supposed to save it? Again, I DON’T have QT pro, and am on a Mac. There’s no menu save nor anything that I can see in FF. This last part, the saving, is the part I don’t seem to have access to. Any help?
Saturday, 2. January 2010
@Michael, on our site (hd-trailers.net), right click any trailer link and click save as…
Thursday, 11. March 2010
ok I’ve modified the agent string, and thats all good but you still don’t explain how to get the correct links for the trailers. I just tried these two trailers, and cannot work out the links to download the trailers:
http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/lions_gate/killers/
http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/universal/repomen/
Thursday, 11. March 2010
@actionad: After you modified the user-agent string, all the Apple links on our website should work.
Thursday, 20. August 2009
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Monday, 24. August 2009
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Wednesday, 7. October 2009
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Sunday, 15. November 2009
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