ding-downloader

Download your Ring doorbell videos from The Cloud™. Written in an hour with zero error handling, but it does throttle itself per-request type and globally. This does exactly what I need it to do (make local backups on a cron job) but may take some modification to get it to do what YOU want it to do.

Note: If you want this to run on a cron job, you’ll have to also write a script to refresh your session token regularly. I’ll leave that as an exercise to the reader.

What does this download?

The raw video files from Ring’s server. That means a 1280 × 720 MP4 with no annoying Ring logo at the bottom right (at least on my Ring 2).

Usage

1. Run yarn install or npm install to get dependencies
2. Get your session token by going to Ring.com, logging in, opening your dev tools, and copying the cookie value for _session_id (it should be 32 chars)
3. Run node app.js YOURSESSIONTOKENHERE or put your session token on line 13 of download.js
4. Wait

Why am I getting a SyntaxError: Unexpected identifier?

You probably ran node download.js- either run node app.js or node -r esm download.js