Download a Public Loom From the Share Link

Loom publishes screen recordings on share pages that play in the browser and often hide a download button from viewers.

Loom optimizes for watch, not carry-away

Recording owners get admin controls. Viewers usually see play, speed, and comments. Public share links stream adaptive video without handing visitors a file.

When a teacher or teammate sends a Loom link, you still have the right to save a local copy only if the owner left the share open.

Copy the loom.com share URL

Open the share page and copy the address bar. Links that include a password gate are not public. If Loom asks for a workspace login before playback, stop.

Embedded players on Notion or Slack should still expose a loom.com share link in the share menu.

Run the Loom downloader

Paste the share URL into FileShot, run Analyze, and download the MP4. Screen recordings can be long, so leave the tab alone until the transfer completes.

Camera bubble and screen content stay in one video track on successful saves.

Shares the owner locked down

Workspace-only videos, revoked links, and recordings deleted by the owner fail at analyze time. Loom also respects download-disabled toggles when the creator turned them off.

If the owner enabled a native download button, you can use that instead. FileShot is for the cases where viewers only receive a watch page.

If the page plays but Analyze fails

Open the same URL in a private window before you paste it into loom downloader. A public Loom link should list formats within about a minute when the CDN responds. Logged-in cookies often show a player that anonymous servers cannot fetch, which looks like a broken tool even when the real issue is visibility.

After the file lands on disk

Play the full length once with sound on. If the runtime matches what you saw in the browser, keep that copy before you close the tab. You can paste another public link anytime on the general downloader, but a finished transfer already proved this host path worked for you today.

Open FileShot for Loom when you have the link ready, or paste any other public URL on the main video downloader. For background on the pipeline, read how video downloaders work. The following post covers Save a Public Vidyard Video as an MP4.