Apple Movie Trailer downloads are broken
iTunes Movie Trailers doesn't want us. 
In the past I had recommended a wonderful Greasemonkey script that would allow one to directly download the trailers from Apple Movie Trailers. Who wants to watch awesome trailers in a browser window anyhow? 
It now seems like Apple has intentionally broken this and other means of downloading their trailers directly, as covered by hd-trailers.net:
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.
Those great guys have a workaround though. If you’re a Linux/OS X user, you can simply use wget with the Quicktime User Agent string:
wget -U QuickTime/7.6.2 http://movies.apple.com/movies/fox/avatar/avatar2009aug0820a-tsr_h1080p.mov
If you’re on Leopard, you may not have wget. In this case you may be able to use curl -O which supposedly does the same thing, though I can’t verify that this works:
curl -A QuickTime/7.6.2 -O http://movies.apple.com/movies/fox/avatar/avatar2009aug0820a-tsr_h1080p.mov
Another workaround, one that would also be simpler for Windows users, is to try using the User Agent Switcher Firefox extension. Just make sure to use the Quicktime User Agent string in the examples above.
Windows users intent on using wget can try their luck with the GNU Utilities for Win32.
Update: Krunk from hd-trailers.net has commented that direct download will work if you just tweak the URL a bit. Where the trailer typically comes from movies.apple.com, just change that to http://www.apple.com. Be sure to check out their download guide.
Hmm… now to see whether we can get the Greasemonkey script updated to do this for us…
Update 2: I’ve uploaded a fixed version of zatic’s original Apple Trailer Download script to userscripts.org. I’ve simply applied the fix noted in the previous update, to the original script.
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August 20, 2009 at 10:37 pm
I thought I have to pass cookies to download manager to get it working. Now it seems only the problem of user agent is the mole.
thanks for the tip.
Peter
August 21, 2009 at 4:12 am
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August 22, 2009 at 4:49 am
thanks my firend
said
August 26, 2009 at 9:10 pm
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August 30, 2009 at 9:20 pm
Not sure if you saw my updated post where if you change the domain from movies.apple.com to http://www.apple.com, you can bypass the User Agent restriction.
Krunk
August 31, 2009 at 1:13 am
Thanks, Krunk. Post updated.
Sohail Mirza
August 31, 2009 at 12:40 pm
Thanks a bunch!
srivatsa
September 25, 2009 at 1:45 am
you my friend are a geenius
Canadian
October 4, 2009 at 10:37 pm
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October 6, 2009 at 6:49 pm
Well… After GM script stopped working today, I changed User Agent in FF to QuickTime/7.6.2 and modified a link given by apple as follows:
from http://movies.apple.com/movies/independent/theministers/theministers_480p.mov
to http://movies.apple.com/movies/independent/theministers/theministers_h480p.mov
and it works…
Antipop
October 7, 2009 at 10:50 am
Confirmed. Using
wgetwith the Quicktime user agent does work. So what we need is a way to apply the user agent fix in a way that works with DownThemAll and other download managers.Sohail Mirza
October 8, 2009 at 10:53 pm
// (Sohail Mirza) Fix for Apple breakage – 2009-09-06
url_default = url_default.replace(/(movies.apple.com|images.apple.com)/, “www.apple.com”);
It’s movies.apple.com again !!!
fix the script!
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October 8, 2009 at 2:32 pm
Sorry, but per Antipop’s comment, changing just the URL alone doesn’t fix the Greasemonkey script. The script needs to change the user agent string in the request.
Sohail Mirza
October 8, 2009 at 10:54 pm
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January 14, 2010 at 1:30 am
Doesn’t work. It only downloads a few bytes.
Name
May 3, 2010 at 12:46 pm
thanks my friend
aflam toreksh
June 4, 2010 at 10:56 pm
From one movie buff to another! Thanx
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August 22, 2010 at 11:43 am
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Other browsers should have a similar feature.
Sohail Mirza
March 14, 2010 at 4:54 pm