Get Youtube Video in FLV format at Firefox cache folder without download

December 11, 2007



Just watch youtube video in firefox and get FLV file of that video in cache folder of firefox in easy way. No need to download youtube video from other websites. Here is the step by step process.

1. Watch full Youtube video in Firefox bowser.

2. When you see reply button on youtube video, don’t close the Firefox browser.

3. Go at following folder D:(or C:)\Documents and Settings\ADMIN (your Admin login)\Local Settings\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles (one by one),

Update: For new Firefox version, if you are not able to find “Application Data” after  Local Settings, just  add  “\Application Data” on the address bar at  Local setting folder. Here is the example – check

C:\Documents and Settings\HTC\Local Settings\Application Data

(edit C: and HTC with your harddrive and  admin login name respectively. )

4. Click single folder there you will get folder “Cache”. click on it. You will find a lots of unknown type files in this folder.

5. Most probably the last file will be youtube video.

6. Remember, youtube video in FLV format in this folder is there with unknown name ant type.

7. You can arrange all files in this folder by size. largest file should be youtube video

8. Copy that file, paste it on desktop

9. Rename it with FLV extension, something like video1.flv.

10. Play the video with FLV player. If you dont have FLV player, download it from here

For more infomation visit download Megavideo.

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    • Comments

    15 Responses to “Get Youtube Video in FLV format at Firefox cache folder without download”

    1. leakeg on February 17th, 2008 2:14 am

      yep brilliant it works – no double downloading anymore!

    2. noob on April 7th, 2008 9:48 am

      folder location in vista?

      ( i hate vista too )

    3. noob on April 7th, 2008 10:00 am

      Vista

      control panel
      appearance and personalization
      folder options
      view hidden folders

      C:\Users\\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles

    4. Save youtube videos directly from firefox3 cache on June 22nd, 2008 7:45 pm

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    5. ABHISHEK on July 1st, 2008 11:26 am

      yoo,it’s working yar,thank u for providing me such an oppurtinity.

    6. zulk on October 24th, 2008 7:06 am

      excellent tips

    7. DYOS on November 26th, 2008 10:36 pm

      yup that actually works BUT i noticed that when the file is actually larger than 60MB it vanishes right after streaming is done! where does it go?

    8. shuhrat on February 12th, 2009 4:14 pm

      thanks. works great! especially cuz i have an unstable wifi connection and downloading something is always a problem.

    9. shairyar on August 4th, 2009 10:39 am

      Thanks bro… its an easy method… works greatly…

    10. Cbass on August 7th, 2009 8:59 pm

      Dude YOU ARE GOD!!

    11. heru on October 22nd, 2009 8:12 am

      wooowww…..

      thats an excellent tips.

      thanks a lot

    12. victor on October 31st, 2009 5:28 pm

      Thanks buddy,it works!!!I use windows Vista .I could locate the flv files with the following path,of course by trial and error.
      C:\Users\victor\AppData\Local\Mozilla\Firefox\
      Profiles\ds88ejil.default\Cache

    13. haiqal on November 15th, 2009 4:30 pm

      what if i’m using a mac?

    14. jamshid on March 16th, 2010 5:55 pm

      good article . Thanks

    15. Hossein S. Rahmati on May 23rd, 2010 7:43 am

      On every OS you can try typing in the address bar of Firefox:

      about:cache

      Bingo! You’ve got the path to the temp directory regardless of your operating system. Whether it’s UNIX or Windows, you’ve got what you need.

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