Tuesday, January 11, 2011

How to download from youtube and other video buffering websites

Well most of you would be watching videos on youtube and would like to download it for later viewing , there are some softwares available to do it for you but they are either shareware or have limitations .But you can do it on your own by copying from the cache folder of the web browser.I will give an example with chrome and windows 7(should work the same way for other browsers and xp):

Go to:
C->Users->Administrator(or whatever account you're logged in)->AppData(you need to set hidden files to visible to see this)->Local->Google->Chrome->UserData->Default->Cache and there you have it.

Now the searching part begins , leave the files with data as names apart , there would be files like f_randomnos which is what you're looking for , check the 'Date Modified' of the folder and the latest one would probably be your video(also note file size , should be around 10mb for a 3 min video) and then open with vlc player and enjoy the video , you can copy it to some safe place to view it later.

Note:
1.This only works for non-encrypted sites(eg.youtube)
2.No need to change extension , just play with vlc media player.

Do leave your comments if this works.

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