Programmatically Download Embedded SWFs from Sites?

Question

This is probably considered hacking, but is it possible to programmatically download swfs using something like Ruby? Not decompiling them, just downloading them so I can view them without having to go to the site with a billion advertisements.

Answer 1

It's a very straightforward URL download as long as the site isn't doing something to prevent people from doing this, e.g. checking the REFERER field or a cookie.

There are a number of browser plugins (FF must have a dozen of them) that facilitate this kind of thing.

Answer 2

Assuming you know the address of the flash movie:

require 'net/http'

Net::HTTP.start( 'www.example.com' ) { |http|
  resp = http.get( '/movie.swf' )
  open( '/tmp/movie.swf', 'wb' ) { |file|
    file.write(resp.body)
  }
}

Answer 3

you may think this is silly!! open up a text browser like elinks and load a page which has swf file/content, then it'll only ask what to do and downloads content, has worked for me.......

Answer 4

you can download SWF with Moyea FREE flash downloader