[Python] Is there a way to web scrape & download the videos on an Amazon Product page?

I am looking for some help with scraping product videos from any Amazon Product page.

For example, the videos in the red box below:

product videos amazon product page

I've searched quite extensively for help on the Internet for answers but they don't address this issue.

Usually, there would be file an src with a .mp4 extension that we can use as the url to download, but in this case, the src seems to be a "blob" link.

For example, in the product above, to play the first video in the red box, we need to click it and a video player will be opened up, as shown below:

video player

Inspecting the video player shows the following: video player inspect

The src of the video is: blob:https://www.amazon.com/bb93cc83-5768-4eb9-a10d-f6a889e5a832

Simply pasting this into the address bar yields "Your file couldn't be accessed", as shown below: Your file couldn't be accessed message

Removing "blob" from the beginning of the url, so the it's just: https://www.amazon.com/bb93cc83-5768-4eb9-a10d-f6a889e5a832, and pasting this into the address bar yields "Page not found", as show below: page not found message

There's not even an iframe tag that may somehow have the .mp4 URL.

Another possible method I thought of is to somehow use Internet Download Manager to download the videos in my Python script, but from what I can gather, it seems like I would still need the .mp4 url to use the Internet Download Manager API, which does not seem to be available on the Amazon pages.

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