Download & Save Flash Animation Files in Firefox or IE

I came across an interesting interactive Flash animation, but the usual methods can't seem to save it--it seems to be composed of multiple Flash files. I retrieved them from my cache, but the don't work independently. Any ideas?

http://demo.fb.se/e/girlpower/retouch/retouch/index.html

Please help me! I don't know if you even read this, but here goes. There is this flash thingy that I desperately want on my hard disk. I have tried all the methods and it won't work. I have located the file both with IE and MF, the extension says .swf and it won't open. It gives a box which says choose program to open with, so there is no such thing as Macromedia! What must I use to download .swf files? Please give a URL. And also: I have noted that my other flash games which I got off someones CD says .exe, but I've renamed mine and it still won't work. Here is the flash thing that I want: http://www.greenpeace.org.uk/mcdonalds/logginit.html please check it out and send me to adriaanjoubert.aj@gmail.com please please please I am such a helpless noob don't leave me here!

Hey, Adriaan!

Flash files are as standard .swf-files but people who put flash stuff on CD's want everybody to view them so they convert them to exe.

To view swf-files either drag them into your browser or do a google search for "offline flash-player"

Use the IE explorer to open the swf files mate !

Amit,

Almost a year after you posted this.
about:cache?device=disk
Amazing
Just what the doctor ordered.
Thanks for this help.

Just wanted to let you folks know how to save content from YouTube.com since theiri s no flv file in cache. So you can use http://www.youtubia.com/ and VLC player to playback the content saved :-)

Cheers!

I use firefox and IE interchangeably. What about saving flash applets embedded in java popups? Is there any way to do this short of getting a plugin to do it for you?

if downloading a .swf that is a trailer of a movie and would like the sound how does that work?

i can save the flv file but when i go back into flash there's no audio... any tips?

Or one can use the Amazing Media Browser add-on for Firefox which makes saving Flash files a lot easier.

the new yahoo greetings Flash objects can not be saved using any of these methods, even amazing media addon of firefox doesnt work!

great tips!
merry xmas!

cool the steps for poweruser is really helpful, didn't work with the first step tho. Thanks a lot.

Hi, thanks for the info. I already tried this solution not so long time ago, because I realize that all the flash files already downloaded by the browser.

I use Foxfire. The instructions
didn't work as I understood them. So I used copy and paste to put "about:cache?device=disk" into the address bar. There was the cache. This can be saved as a bookmark and all you need to do is is click on the bookmark.

Awesome work dude!

I cant get it to import to macromedia flash mx says its protected!

Awesome awesome awesome. Was able to save an mp3 which was playing via flash. I would have bought the song but I could never find it anywhere for sale.

Even .flv files can also be taken and viewed through offline flv player..

Thanks for the useful tip dude..

Hi ! Can someone guide me how to save the flash animation which is there at http://www.ultramagicard.com/homepage.


Thanks in advance
Sandeep

Can someone please guide me how to save the flash animation from : http://www.ultramagicard.com/homepage

Thanks in advance
Sandeep

hey how to save shockwave content? its not just a single .swf file, it may be multiple files even multiple .swf files and other images, shockwave content are designed in such a way that it can call in any .swf file or image or a program. Is there any way we can save them? most of the games are now in shockwave rather than simple flash. thanks in advance.

Awesome work dude!

This works on 10minuteresume.com as well. They entice you to their website, spend much time creating a nice resume and find out in the end you have to pay to print it out. Their print preview is in the "Flash Paper" format (.swf extension). I wasn't able to retrieve it using the "Firefox for Newbies" way, but using the "Firefox for Geeks and Power Users", was able to locate the file and print it out without going through their website.

wicked, this helped. cheers

thanks!! it's a great help... and it works in a lot of sites except for crunchyroll.com hope you could help me saving videos there... thanks again in advance...

and also, you sending me an e-mail would be a lot of help... here, dtg_alekhine@yahoo.com

Thanks heaps for this.
Fwiw, in Firefox on PC or Mac, the Save As button in the media list does nothing - nyet, nada.
However, the instructions for IE worked just fine

I was not able to get FireFox to SAVE AS - the button just does nothing on both Mac and PC. I was able to get IE to do the save on the PC.
The easiest in fact is Safari on the Mac - in the Window menu, select Activity - it neatly puts each site in it's own disclosure triangle - select the .swf file, then choose Save As in the File menu - only thing is that it saves it as a web archive file, not as /swf - for my purpsoes that is fine, as I want to view the files I have downloaded, and they view fine in Safari

very useful information, but is it a way for downloading java games as well ? i tried this but it didnt work for java , thanks

Hay I work at a call center and they have blocked anything to do with downloading. Is there any way to bypass this so that i can play games that require me to download java? Please if any one has a solution please email me mommie3@gmail.com I really want to be able to play my games. Thank you so much.

i cant completely download flash animations from WWW.NEWGROUNDS.COM
contact me on skyline_727@hotmail.com if u figure it out. they come out as shadows,not full animations

i'm tryin to convert a file to avi but i think it's composed of multiple Flash files.....and i have no idea how to get just individual files out of it.....can you plz help me

contact me if you can on nooranoor@hotmail.com

thanx for the info btw

thx for the article, its very helpful l for me.

Nice just what i was looking for. Cheers

Good tip Amit ! Got to try this one :]

Amit,
I was acually searching for help on how to extract and save swf embedded in excel/word files. Though this was not mentioned in your post, I thought I will add value to it.

I came across http://www.xcelfiles.com/SWF_ExtractFile.html wherein I downloaded an excel sheet which had a script within it. Just browse to the xls/doc file that has the swf file in it and it will be saved to your local disk. Easy!

Thanks alot...
i find out this info is very useful for me... :)

Here's a hint boy's and girls. I recommend looking through the cache as described in the advanced firefox section. Instead of looking for the .swf file, which is usually only used to display the .flv, search for the .flv, or the directory it's in(usually the same as the .swf). It's a little trick I learned, and really effective.

Excellent...I needed to extract photos from Flashplayer...use the intructions for IE...too easy...thank you!!!!

The advice in section 'Firefox for Geeks and Power Users' works great for me.
Thanks, Amit!

You should definitely mention, EXPLICITLY, that similar thing works for "YOUTUBE VIDEOS". I am sure that will bring in lot more Google traffic. Presently that search leads to Digg page which doesn't mention such a simple approach. Excellent work!

I'm not sure this is the right place to post a question but I'll try. :-) I have found the swf and flv files in my temporary internet files in IE but when I try to paste them into another folder, I get an error that states: Cannot copy file: cannot read from source file or disk. Is there any way around this? Or is this something to do with scripts (I'm not good with computers). The flash I want to save is a cute ad for... dog food... please help.

Hi, Thanks for the advice, I've been trying to save a particular .flv file for a while to send to my sister. I have an flv player installed and followed your advanced Firefox method which worked insofar as I could locate the file and managed to save a .flv file. That's where the problem starts, when I try to play the file in the player either by double clicking or choosing a program to open it it doesn't load, instead I get a blue and white moving line along the bottom in what looks like a loading bar and it just stays like that.

Any suggestions, thanks, Andrew.

about:cache?device=disk
awesome

A very useful webpage. Thank you for posting it.

A suggestion for the IE steps, change step 2.d to be:

"d. Click View - Details. Now click View - Arrange Icons By - Type."

All the swf files will be sorted together, just scroll down to find them all.