Harri Sapto WIJAYA

May be this trick is old, and many people know it already. But, it’s ok, at least keep my blog vibrate

When browsing, you may experience some website displays interesting flash animation, or you watch a video on YouTube, liputan6.com or  something else, but you can’t right click to grab the video. Uh…

I found some softwares offer capabilities to grab flash content in website, one of them i found is free, but only run under IE. But how about video or picture.

Actually, you need no any add-ins softwares but browser. Here I show you how to use mozzila firefox to grab the website contents, without installing any software. This just browser’s habit.

When you browse using firefox (other browser also), the browser "buffering" the contents on your local system (i.e. your computer). So when you watch video, flash animation, view picture, actually these data has saved already on your local. In my computer, firefox cache the website contents here:

C:\Users\Harri Sapto WIJAYA\AppData\Local\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\qtbd84b2.default\Cache

in your computer may be slightly different, no problema, just find Cache folder. 

(EDIT,add): For firefox user, there’s easy way to find out the cache folder, just write "about:cache?device=disk" in address bar.

When your browser completed already the buffering process of a video (or flash), you can find it under Cache folder, but unfortunately it’s saved without extension. So what you can do is find the large size file and try to append extention to file name using appropriate extension. Commonly is .avi, .swf, for video and flash. Make sure your explorer display extension (check it out under folder option).

You can try to grab content from YouTube or liputan6.com. 

How about picture? May you want grab some picture without the owner know what you’ve done. Friendster may be

Because there are so many small size files, it’s hard to find the cache picture. It’s ok, just remove other cache files before you surf to website contains contents you want. May be you don’t want delete them, so just remove to other folder.

[figure 1 Keep the file in red rectangle] 

Remove all files under Cache except file with _CACHE_, I put a red rectangle to indicate on picture above. Now browse the website that contains such as picture that you want, may be http://www.friendster.com/photos/23501xxx/0/238637xxx is good , after load completely, back to Cache folder and find new file has created under it.

There is a way to cheat the file’s extension of unextensioned file, just drag-and-drop the file to notepad and find some recognizable information in bytecode jungle. Here below for example. [this way not recommended for large size file (above 1 or 2 MB) or your notepad going to not responding status]

[figure 2 Cheating the extension for unextensioned file]
 

You find some recognizable info, that is JFIF and JPG, both are image file extension. 

So just append appropriate extension, e.g. 0A9D6C30d01.jfif, open it, and…. TADAA….. you got what you want…

[figure 3 Result]
 

You never grab it, because your firefox grab it for you… (you just pick it from almost-trash ) 

Hehe, sorry ya chick, fs-mu ku jadikan sample  

Have a nice surfing!