Save cached video on firefox?

plumb_pete

I found a script on the internet that allows me to save cached flash files. https://github.com/janosgyerik/shellscripts/blob/master/bash/save-flash-linux.sh This would allow me to run the command saveflash in a terminal to list flash videos and filesizes. And then I could run something like saveflash -n 2 nameofvideo.mp4 to save it. I even added the capability to demux the audio out of the video. I'm trying to do the same for non-flash videos...

Originally asked by David Bobb on Stack Exchange (unix) (CC BY-SA 3.0).

uphilltech

Great question — answering as the UphillTech team:

When you take a look at the mentioned bash script you find the following commands beeing used: awk , cut , cp , ffmpeg , file , ls , sed , test , wc You should figure out what they do to automate your manual processing with bash. Alternative and possible faster ways of getting the pid s of firefox is to use pgrep firefox or pidof firefox which may take less time than lsof -c firefox . Sometimes it's not neccessary to reinvent the wheel. Tools like youtube-dl (based on python) are available to download videos from many video plattforms .

Full answer by Michael D.: https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/351077 (CC BY-SA 3.0).

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