How to Extract Video from Website Using AI: Ultimate Guide (2025)

Video content has never been more popular. It was recently reported that 14.9% of Millennials watch 10-20 hours of online video per week, with the global average being 17 hours per week.

What’s more, the rapid advancement of AI has revolutionized the way we create and interact with online content, making video production easier and more accessible than ever.

In this article, we’ll show you how to use AI to extract video from websites – but we’ll go one step further, demonstrating how Argil can be used to create engaging videos from text-based content like blogs and newsletters in a matter of minutes.

We’ll also demonstrate how to benefit from AI video scraping and content repurposing while adhering to legal and ethical standards.

What Is AI Video Scraping/Video Extraction?

Want to use AI to extract video from websites ethically?

AI video scraping means using machine learning and natural language processing to extract video data from websites and social media platforms.

The process can be beneficial for conducting competitive analysis, building a database or compiling research.

For example, AI researcher Simon Willison recently fed a screen recording video into an AI model (Gemini) to add up his charges from using a cloud service to save him searching through dozens of emails. This is AI video scraping in action!

While traditional scraper tools need human intervention to extract data and may struggle with complex layouts or sites with frequent updates, an AI web scraper can handle more dynamic content, identifying patterns and extracting data autonomously.

So whether you’re building an app, conducting research or running a marketing campaign, AI video scraper tools can be beneficial for gathering real-time data without spending hours on a spreadsheet.

Of course, there are privacy and ethical concerns to consider. No one wants to live in a world where AI assistants can see and record what we’re doing on our screens. So if you’re going to use AI to extract video from websites, you need to do it responsibly by following these guidelines.

How to Use AI to Extract Videos from Websites?

Find Your Target Content

First, you’ll need to determine the video content you wish to extract. Like Willison above, you may want to screen-record your processes so you can easily pull data from your applications or emails.

Before going ahead,  make sure your target content complies with legal and ethical guidelines. Web scraping is perfectly legal if you're scraping data that’s publicly available on the internet, but you’ll need to be more careful if you’re scraping data behind a login or paywall.

Choose an AI Scraping Tool

Next, you’ll need to research and find a reputable AI tool like Gemini to extract video data. It’s worth spending some reading through customer reviews while also making sure the provider takes robust privacy and security measures.

Other AI scraping tools include Octoparse, ScrapeStorm and Browse AI.

Set Your Scraping Parameters

When you’re ready to start extracting data, it’s time to set your preferences such as video format, resolution and duration. Now you can begin extracting the video content. Be sure to monitor the process to make sure your requirements are being met accurately.

Secure Videos Securely

Once you’ve used AI to extract video from websites of your choice, make sure you save the videos in a secure location with proper labels for future access.

Can You Use AI to Extract Videos and Repurpose Them?

No, it’s unethical and could even be illegal to re-use someone else’s content without their permission.

If you use clips of other people’s videos in your own content, say to review their product or discuss their work, you’ll need to credit them.

However, there is an easy and completely ethical way to repurpose content. With Argil, our all-in-one video production tool powered by AI, you can repurpose text from websites into engaging short videos.

With our text-to-video feature, you can repurpose content such as:

• Blog posts
• Newsletters/emails
• Reddit threads
• Social media captions

How to Repurpose Content Using Argil

Instead of trying to use AI to extract video from websites for your content, use Argil to repurpose existing text content.

Simply paste your text URL into our script generator and our AI assistant will generate an engaging short video script, highlighting ‘viral hooks’ to help boost viewer retention.

It’s important to repurpose content that you know has already performed well, like a popular Reddit conversation or a high-performing blog post. If you quote other people or use their work, remember to credit them in your video description or caption.

Filming and Editing Your Videos

When it comes to performing your video script with Argil, you won’t even need a camera. Choose from one of our preset avatars or create your own by uploading a two-minute video of yourself speaking. You can then train your realistic AI avatar to look and sound just like you, adding gestures such as shrugging, smiling or gesticulating.

Generate your video in a few clicks and then head to our editing suite. Here, you can add dynamic B-roll, compelling visual transitions, multilingual captions and branded features to make your video stand out.

And that’s it – you’ve just created a compelling short video in minutes, saving you hours of filming and editing time. The result is a professional-grade, polished video you can share on your platform of choice.

Over time, Argil will help you maximize your engagement through A/B testing and suggestions for improvement, helping you grow your channel and create video content 10 times faster. You’ll be able to post consistently, create great videos and build an audience authentically.

Repurpose Content in Minutes with Argil

It can be really beneficial to use AI to extract video from websites, as long as you’re doing so ethically.

Like AI researcher Simon Willison demonstrated, this process can be useful for data extraction, saving you hours of manual work. However, when done incorrectly, it can also violate privacy and copyright laws, so you need to be careful.

A simple and ethical way of repurposing video content is to use Argil’s text-to-video tool to create engaging short videos using simple text.

Argil can save you hours of brainstorming and planning time, helping you maximize the value of existing content and capitalize on trending topics. This will leave you with more time for creativity and strategy, automating the process of video production without sacrificing the quality of your output.

Try Argil for free today, and see how quick and easy it is to create compelling video content.

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