Disabling Video Downloads on Cloudinary

definecreative

I need to share a link to a Cloudinary-hosted video while disabling or hiding the possibility of downloading the video itself.

I'm wondering if it's possible to add the attribute controlsList="nodownload" so that the video rendered in the DOM has the following form:

<video controls controlsList="nodownload">

I just want to know if I can modify the URL of the video published by Cloudinary or if there is any other way to make it non-downloadable.

Cloudinary Team

Hi there,

Thanks for reaching out.

If you're seeing the download link in Chrome's native player, you can disable the download link by adding controlsList="nodownload" to the video tag.
For more information please see here: https://googlechrome.github.io/samples/media/controlslist.html
Alternatively, you can use Cloudinary video player which don't have the download button. You can read more about it here: https://cloudinary.com/documentation/cloudinary_video_player

Otherwise, there are several ways to restrict access for resources. However, once you share the link of the resource, it's not possible to disallow users from using it and downloading the resource.

I hope this helps. If you have any questions, do not hesitate to ask.

Kind regards,

Tia

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