Short answer, split three ways. Your own posts on Patreon, Substack or Gumroad are your material — retrieve them through the platform’s export where offered, and by capture otherwise; that workflow is on archiving your own uploads. Public posts from any creator are ordinary web video: play, capture, keep the URL. Members-only posts are a different category, and this page does not provide a method for them — a subscription buys access to a library on someone’s terms, not a right to extract and keep its contents. That distinction is not a limitation of the tooling; it is what the purchase actually is.
The three categories
| Category | What your relationship gives you | What to do |
|---|---|---|
| Your own content | You made it. Rights are yours; the platform’s terms govern retrieval | Use the platform’s export, then capture what you can already view; keep source masters separately |
| Public posts | Anyone may view; licence to reuse still belongs to the creator | Capture normally, cite the source, don’t republish without asking |
| Members-only posts | Access for you, on the creator’s platform, while subscribed | Ask the creator. Extraction is not supported here |
Note that platforms in this group were not reachable from our network today, so we state no specific export feature: several creator tools do ship a data-export function, and if yours does, that is the clean route for your own material.
Where “download” legitimately exists
Your own posts
An account’s own media is retrievable in most creator tools — through an export request, a media library, or simply by re-downloading what you uploaded. Export the master you uploaded when you still have it; the platform copy is a re-encode (the own-content page).
Public posts, with the same mechanics as anywhere
Play it in the view that shows it, then take what the page requested. Substack embeds and public Gumroad product previews are commonly ordinary files on a CDN, or a platform embed whose own rules apply (player libraries). Keep the URL and date: creators unpublish.
Public product pages on commerce platforms
A Gumroad or Shopify product page’s demo video is public marketing material — technically simple to capture, and still the seller’s footage. For research and evaluation that is normally unproblematic; for reuse in your own material, ask (site-hosted video).
Why the members-only row is empty
Because that is what a subscription is. You are buying viewing access on someone’s platform, under their rules, for as long as you pay — and the creator controls distribution because the work is theirs. Helping extract member content is not a harder version of the same job; it is a different act, and it is outside everything on this site. If you need a copy: ask. Creators sell licence scopes more often than people expect, and a straightforward message is a normal thing to send.
The same reasoning is applied consistently elsewhere here — membership sites and course platforms are scoped to what your own access legitimately covers, and this page is no different.
Legitimate creator uses worth naming
- Backing up your own channel before a platform change or a migration.
- Archiving your published work so it survives an unpublish or an account problem.
- Keeping a copy of something you were interviewed for, or contributed footage to.
- Referencing a public launch or product video in an evaluation, with the source cited.
All four are ordinary, and all four are about material you are entitled to hold. That is the line this page draws.
FAQ
Can I download Patreon videos for offline viewing?
For your own posts, yes — export or re-download them. For other creators’ members-only posts, no method here: a subscription buys access on the creator’s terms, not extraction.
How do I save my own Patreon posts locally?
Use the platform’s export for your account if it offers one, and keep your uploaded masters separately; the hosted copy is a re-encode.
Can I save a video from a Substack post?
If the post is public, it behaves like ordinary web video: play, capture, keep the URL. A paid post is the creator’s distribution decision.
Are Gumroad product-page videos downloadable?
Public preview clips are usually ordinary files; they remain the seller’s footage, so capture for evaluation and ask before reuse.
What about a creator membership site generally?
Same rule in every case: your own material yes; public material with care; members-only material by asking.
Why is this page less helpful than others?
Because the interesting half of the question is consent, not capability. Ask the creator — it works more often than people assume.