Save a video from OK.ru

Video on OK.ru lives in three places

This is a general social network rather than a video site, so video turns up in several forms. A person posts a clip to their own wall. A group publishes a film or a long recording to its members. A profile keeps a video album that gathers dozens of uploads under one heading.

All three end up in front of you as something playing in a browser. They do not behave the same way when you copy an address, and sorting out which of the three you are looking at is the first useful thing to do.

Clips appear on profiles, in groups, and inside albums. Paste the watch address for one video. An album address describes a shelf of items and will not resolve to a single file.

Member-only group posts return empty for logged-out analysis. If the video plays only after you sign in on OK.ru, this page cannot see the media.

An album address describes a shelf, not a video

A video album is a container. Its page lists thumbnails and its address names the album, so pasting it returns nothing, because no single file sits behind a list.

Click the video you want. The player opens on its own page, the address in the bar changes to one that names that video, and that address is the one to copy. On a phone the album view sometimes plays a video without changing the address, so open the video in its own tab before copying.

Posts and groups limited to members

OK.ru lets people restrict who sees a post, and groups can be closed to anyone who has not joined. A closed group serves its join page to an outside viewer, and a restricted personal post serves a notice.

Neither page hands over a media file, so the results list is empty. That is the accurate answer for a page written for members. Video posted publicly on the same network reads normally, so one empty result does not describe the whole host.

The several quality rows one OK.ru video offers

This host re-encodes what people upload, so a single video often produces a run of rows: a low mobile encoding, one or two middle steps, and a top row at the resolution of the upload. Each row is a separate file rather than one file described several ways.

The height figure tells you the picture size and the megabyte figure tells you the cost. A long recording posted to a group can offer a top row of well over a gigabyte alongside a mobile row of a few dozen megabytes, and both play the same content.

Telling an empty list apart from a bad copy

An empty result has two ordinary causes on this network: the page needs a member, or the address you copied names an album, a profile or a search rather than a video.

Open the address in a private window with no OK.ru session. If a join prompt or a restriction notice appears, the page is not public. If the page loads a video and plays it, the address is fine and the earlier copy went wrong somewhere between the bar and the box.

Sizes, the daily count and where the file lands

Free use covers three downloads a day, each single file up to 150 megabytes, with the count returning at midnight UTC. On a long group upload the top row passes that ceiling, while a middle row on the same video often sits under it. The figures are printed before you commit to either.

Pro ends the three-a-day count, lifts the limit on a single file and clears the advertising. A prepared file waits on a short timer, so keep the tab open until the transfer ends. The saved copy then sits in your downloads folder or your phone's storage and plays with no connection.

Keep this tab open until the browser finishes writing the file for ok ru downloader. A prepared file only waits a short time before it expires from the temporary store.

Related pages

• Video posted on another large social network
• A regional host running its own player
• Why the results list changes length every time
• Public posts against restricted ones