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Rumble Video Downloader — Apify Actor

A headless Apify Actor that downloads a single Rumble video by URL. It wraps yt-dlp with browser impersonation (required — Rumble returns HTTP 403 to plain requests) and merges audio/video to a single .mp4 with ffmpeg.

This is the headless cloud version of the local Rumble Video Downloader web app. Same download engine, packaged as an input → output Actor.

Input

Example:

{
"url":"https://rumble.com/v6xxxx-some-video.html",
"quality":"720"
}

Output

• Key-value store — the downloaded video is saved to the run's default key-value store under the key <videoId>.mp4 (content-type video/mp4).
• Dataset — one record with metadata and a direct download link:

{
"url":"https://rumble.com/v6xxxx-some-video.html",
"id":"v6xxxx",
"title":"Some Video",
"uploader":"Channel Name",
"duration":213,
"thumbnail":"https://...",
"viewCount":345,
"quality":"720",
"ext":"mp4",
"fileSizeBytes":5407040,
"storageKey":"v6xxxx.mp4",
"videoUrl":"https://api.apify.com/v2/key-value-stores/<storeId>/records/v6xxxx.mp4"
}

Getting the file. The video lives in the run's default key-value store, which is private to your account, so videoUrl needs authentication:

• Easiest: open the run in Apify Console → Storage → Key-value store and click the record to download it.
• Direct link / API: append your token — …/records/v6xxxx.mp4?token=YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN (or open videoUrl while logged into Apify in the same browser).

videoUrl is stored token-free on purpose so your API token is never written into the dataset.

How it works

input { url, quality }
 │
 ├─ validate it's a rumble.com URL
 ├─ yt-dlp --impersonate chrome -f <height-based selector>--merge-output-format mp4
 ├─ store the mp4 in the key-value store
 └─ push a dataset record(metadata + download URL)

The download logic lives in src/downloader.py (pure, no Apify dependency, so it's easy to test); src/main.py is the Actor wrapper.

Run / deploy

Requires the Apify CLI and an Apify account.

# from this folder
apify login # paste your Apify API token when prompted
apify push # builds the Docker image on Apify and creates the Actor

To test locally first (needs Docker running):

$apify run --input'{"url":"https://rumble.com/v6xxxx-title.html","quality":"480"}'

Notes

• curl_cffi must be >=0.10,<0.15 (pinned in requirements.txt). yt-dlp's --impersonate does not support curl_cffi 0.15+.
• Very large videos may approach key-value store record size limits; prefer a capped quality for big files.
• Only download content you own or have the rights to. Respect Rumble's Terms of Service and applicable copyright law.