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How to Download ANY video from ANY Website without any Tool!

Written on September 26th, 2009 at 4:06 am by

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how to download any videoWe all love online video sharing websites and spend time watching our favorite videos.Youtube,metacafe,myspace are few of the famous ones out there.We also know there are many sites that allow us to download videos from those video sharing sites once we provide the URL, sites like keepvid,clipnabber are some of them.


But consider these few cases

-When Embedding is disabled by author.Eg: youtube
-When Video is embedded in a site and you are unable to find its url.Eg:milw0rm.com
-When URL is masked
-Videos found in minor websites that are not supported by sites like keepvid,clipnabber or others.

What happens as a result,you are not able to download video or we search sites or softwares to download videos. What happens some times is that we download some unknown software bundled with malicious stuffs compromising our system and datas .

Why should we take risk, when there is a more easier ,safer and sure to work means, to download any video from any Website?? Lets see how to do it..

How to Download ANY video from ANY Website?

1.It’s recommended that you have VLC or FLV player to play the downloaded video.

2.Launch your browser and play the video you want to download wait till it is entirely buffered and close the browser or the current viewing tab.

Now why should you go in search of tools and softwares to download the video ,when the video you just saw is already in your hard disk! ;) Yeah its your Browser Cache.It’s a matter of just finding the right file ,renaming and using it.

3.Visit your browser cache location.

Mozilla Firefox cache location:

C:\Documents and Settings\[User Name]\Local Settings\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\[Profile Name]\Cache

Example:C:\Documents and Settings\sham\Local Settings\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\u4wz5p5f.default\Cache

Internet Explorer cache location:

C:\Documents and Settings\[User Name]\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files

Example:C:\Documents and Settings\sham\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files

Opera cache location:

C:\Documents and Settings\[User Name]\Local Settings\Application Data\Opera\Opera\cache

Example:C:\Documents and Settings\sham\Local Settings\Application Data\Opera\Opera\cache

Chrome cache location:

C:\Documents and Settings\[User Name]\Local Settings\Application Data\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\Cache

Example:C:\Documents and Settings\sham\Local Settings\Application Data\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\Cache

4.Right click and arrange icons by modified.[Arrange Icons By->Modified].The last file is your Video. You can also consider arrange by size option, video files are prone to be bigger so you can easily find it out.

5.Rename the file pressing F2 and give it .flv extension.Because most of the sites uses flv format.

6.Now play your renamed file via VLC or FLV player.Done!


Now onwards don’t go in search of tools to download video from any site ,also disabling embedding as that in youtube cannot stop you from downloading the video :)

So start downloading any thing and everything.If you liked this article do spread the world by bookmarking in your favorite social bookmarking sites..


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31 Responses to “How to Download ANY video from ANY Website without any Tool!”


  1. S.Pradeep Kumar

    2 years ago

    Nice one Sham, will check it now ! ;)

    Glad I have both the players you mentioned ! :D

    Reply

  2. Agent 001

    2 years ago

    Awesome. I never thought about it. Will try it. I will be amazing my friends.
    .-= Agent 001´s last blog ..No Internet – Not so Bad After All =-.

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  3. Robin

    2 years ago

    Awesome find ! it works for me, i am using windows 7 and just made a test and it works for me..

    C:\Users\UserName\AppData\Local\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\fdbezqv1.default\Cache

    As you mentioned, the default directory alone changes. Thanks dude !
    .-= Robin´s last blog ..Its Time to Transform your XP into Vista Ultimate =-.

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  4. steppinout

    2 years ago

    Nice tip Sham. Try it myself and it works for me too. But, it take a long time to finish. Still cannot beat IDM. BTW thanks
    .-= steppinout´s last blog ..Tips To Make Sure Your Sponsored Themes Won’t Get You Banned From Search Engine =-.

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  5. Tech-Freak Stuff

    2 years ago

    I always knew that the video gets stored in the Cache, but never knew how to get it from there. Thanks for the tutorial.
    .-= Tech-Freak Stuff´s last blog ..Find Invisible or Offline people who are infact online on Facebook! =-.

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  6. Ruchi

    2 years ago

    Thanks, I will surely try it out. I have both VLC and FLV.
    .-= Ruchi´s last blog ..Why Branding Fails at Social Media Sites =-.

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  7. Attorney Smith

    2 years ago

    Nice and informative post,thanks for the back link.

    Reply

  8. Amar

    2 years ago

    I always use realplayer for downloading videos, great post though
    .-= Amar´s last blog ..Can You Actually Get Money From Blogging? =-.

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    • Shunmugha

      2 years ago

      Thanks buddy.Ya downloading via realplayer is another useful method..

      Reply

  9. ganda

    2 years ago

    I’ve been using this method to download video from youtube dude. But, now i’am using FDM or downloader9 to download the video directly. :D
    .-= ganda´s last blog ..Enhance The Method To Prevent Spam Comments Without Plugins =-.

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    • Shunmugha

      2 years ago

      Soon i will be sharing about such tools dude :)

      Reply

  10. Preetam

    2 years ago

    Very nice informative post
    .-= Preetam´s last blog ..Help =-.

    Reply

  11. Ricky

    2 years ago

    Good find sham. It’ll help me lot to check my favorite wrestling video.
    .-= Ricky ´s last blog ..11 Ways To Get Noticed By Other Bloggers [Blogging Tips] =-.

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  12. Neeraj joshi

    2 years ago

    A nice clean simple, yet a very Useful trick Dude.! I had an Idea about it but always fell into confuion as to where my cache was ;D. Nice that you listed Full and complete path for all !
    Thanks
    .-= Neeraj joshi´s last blog ..15 Ways to capture screenshot of a web page =-.

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    • Shunmugha

      2 years ago

      Thanks a lot buddy ..Happy that it was useful to you :)

      Reply

  13. Harsh @blogspot to Wordpress

    2 years ago

    That’s a cool trick , but I’m using IDM (Internet download manager) and its embed video download feature is good enough for me to download most of the videos….
    .-= Harsh @blogspot to WordPress´s last blog ..How to Get More comments on Blogspot Blogs =-.

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  14. Jayce

    2 years ago

    Cool… Got to try it. :)
    .-= Jayce´s last blog ..Free movie ticket from Golden Screen Cinemas (GSC) =-.

    Reply

  15. swapnil

    2 years ago

    Awesome !!!!! ITS grate Worked peRfEctLy Well.

    Reply

  16. ankit

    11 months ago

    thanks man ……..very informative post
    keep up the good work

    Reply

  17. Mike

    8 months ago

    Try TubeDigger – download from any web site: YouTube, Hulu, Mtv, Abc, Nbc, Cbs, Yahoo, MySpace. Record live streams and convert media to any format: iPod, iPhone, Mobile, PSP.

    Reply

  18. Agaac

    5 months ago

    How good are the quality of the videos?

    Reply

    • Shunmugha

      5 months ago

      It will be the same as the original because it’s just the cached version.

      Reply

  19. Agaac

    5 months ago

    Do you know the quality of the videos?

    Reply

  20. GothamKing

    2 months ago

    Eh dude awesome post !!! Er, can u give some other probable extensions for the video files ? It will be even more helpful. And can i get my interrupted downloaded files also ??? Please reply as soon as possible………………

    Reply

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