Saving Flash

[Bob McConnell]

Fennix wrote:
> 
> Why does no-one answer the question?  There must be some better ways than
> just browsing through the /tmp/cache directories to (hopefully) find the
> correct file.  I also would like to know a better way to do this.  I have
> two possible ways...
> 
> (Method 1)  If the browser being used is Firefox then adding something like
> FlashGot might work...
> (Method 2)  Right click on the link and copy to the clipboard.  Next open a
> shell and use wget <link> to retrieve the file.  If the link opens another
> web page I am not sure if this will successfully retrieve the actual video
> file...
> 

Method 3 - View page source and extract the URI for the file. Use 
another application or write a Perl script to retrieve that file.

Bob McConnell
N2SPP