TVer Video Downloader
Japanese catch-up TV expires in about a week. Save the episode as MP4 while it is still there.
Why download TVer videos with ViralMint?
TVer exists to make Japanese broadcast TV watchable for roughly a week after transmission, and then it takes it away — most episodes vanish after about seven days, which is why the download intent here is unusually sharp. Nobody is archiving TVer casually; they are trying to keep one episode before it is gone. The service is also strictly Japan-only: the geo check runs server-side on the manifest request, so if the page will not play for you, no downloader changes that. For anyone inside Japan, TVer serves standard HLS and ViralMint remuxes the top video and audio renditions losslessly into one MP4. Downloads run locally, which matters for a service that expires content — the file is on your disk, not in someone's cloud queue that may not finish before the window closes.
How to download from TVer
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Copy the TVer video URL
From tver.jp, copy the share or page URL — e.g.
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Paste it into ViralMint
Open the ViralMint desktop app and paste the URL into chat. The planner detects the TVer URL and triggers the download automatically — no flags, no command line.
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Get the mp4, transcript and AI insights
The video lands in the Videos page with a local Whisper transcript and AI-extracted hook / structure / tone — ready for clip extraction or repurposing.
Frequently Asked Questions
Can I download TVer from outside Japan?
No. TVer restricts playback to Japanese IP addresses and enforces it server-side before any video data is sent. A local downloader can only fetch what the server agrees to serve, so if the episode will not play in your browser it will not download either.
How long do I have before an episode disappears?
Usually about seven days from broadcast, though it varies by programme and rights holder. Once TVer removes an episode it is gone from their servers — no tool can retrieve it afterwards, which is the whole reason to download promptly.
Do I need a TVer account?
Not for standard catch-up episodes, which are free and account-free by design. Some programmes ask you to sign in, and ViralMint can use your browser's existing session for those.
How ViralMint compares to other TVer downloaders
| Approach | Examples | Trade-off | ViralMint advantage |
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| Online converters | Y2mate, SaveFrom, ssyoutube, OnlineVideoConverter | Pop-up ads, redirects, quality capped at 720p, file-size limits, no batch downloads, your URL logged to ad networks | Local app, zero ads, original quality (up to Up to 1080p (broadcast source)), unlimited file size, batch mode |
| Browser extensions | Video DownloadHelper, FastestTube, similar Chrome / Firefox add-ons | Routinely broken after TVer updates, removed from stores for ToS violations, no transcript or AI analysis | Updates with yt-dlp upstream (community-maintained), independent of browser extension stores, Whisper transcript built in |
| yt-dlp command line | yt-dlp, youtube-dl | Most flexible option but requires terminal comfort, manual cookie handling, no GUI for batch selection | Same yt-dlp under the hood, wrapped in a desktop GUI with cookie auto-detect, batch UI, and post-processing pipeline |
| Closed-source desktop apps | 4K Video Downloader, Allavsoft, ByClick Downloader | Closed-source, paid tiers gate batch and HD, no AI pipeline, no extensible Whisper / FFmpeg post-processing | Open source (AGPL-3.0), AI features prepaid per-action, integrates with the rest of the ViralMint creator pipeline |
Supported URL Example
https://tver.jp/episodes/abcdefghijEquivalent yt-dlp command
If you already use yt-dlp, the desktop app's TVer download is equivalent to running:
yt-dlp -f "bv*+ba/b" --merge-output-format mp4 "https://tver.jp/episodes/abcdefghij"ViralMint also auto-runs Whisper transcription, downloads the thumbnail, and extracts AI hook / structure / tone insights — steps that take a separate command chain in raw yt-dlp.