Flash Video Cache Finder

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Find cached video while watching and without needing downloader extensions. Type moz at a prompt to find the vid. Tested with Firefox (Icecat), Chromium, Midori, Uzbl, Konqueror, and Arora.

To install, append the downloaded moz() function to your local .bashrc file. It will work at your next login.
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8 years ago

Speedup again and this time actually find the correct file descriptor.

Look for lsof instead of hard-coded path and graceful exit if no vid found.

1.0 will now find any number of simultaneous videos. Will only find the first instance of uzbl-tabbed.

1.1 Fixed a rather massive error where references to ~/.adobe/Flash_Player were incorrectly pick up.

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phillipe

8 years ago

Hi man!
You can simplify the method to verify if LSOF really exists, here is what you can do:

-# Make sure we have lsof
-if [ -x /usr/bin/lsof ]; then
- LSOF=/usr/bin/lsof
-elif [ -x /usr/sbin/lsof ]; then
- LSOF=/usr/sbin/lsof
-elif [ -x /usr/local/bin/lsof ]; then
- LSOF=/usr/local/bin/lsof
-else
- echo "lsof was not found... exiting"
- return 1
-fi

+# Make sure we have lsof
+if [ -x `which lsof` ]; then
+ LSOF=`which lsof`
+else
+ echo "lsof was not found... exiting"
+ return 1
+fi

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marcaemus

8 years ago

Fair enough, but I wanted to check explicitly because, for example, /usr/sbin is not in my users' $PATH so 'which' would not work here.

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phillipe

8 years ago

Simple...
Just export a custom PATH:

# Make sure we have lsof
export PATH=$PATH:/usr/sbin

if [ -x `which lsof` ]; then
LSOF=`which lsof`
else
echo "lsof was not found... exiting"
return 1
fi

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marcaemus

8 years ago

And that would leave $PATH set with /usr/sbin in it which is not what I would want.

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phillipe

8 years ago

But it can be only while the function is executed:

PATH_ORIG=$PATH
export PATH=$PATH:/usr/sbin

And on the end of the function:
export PATH=$PATH_ORIG

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marcaemus

8 years ago

What I've written is the simplest and quickest (in execution) lookup for lsof. So my original function is still the best version of this quick hack.

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marcaemus

8 years ago

This was just a 90 second hack very early this morning. It is, like me, ugly but very effective.

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phillipe

8 years ago

Ok man!

I just wanted to show you another way to do that without make many validations.

Anyway this is a very useful script.

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marcaemus

8 years ago

Added the least bit of error checking for a less brain-dead script.

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lordix

8 years ago

Hello.

To operate in archlinux:

moz () {
ME=`/usr/sbin/lsof | grep Flash | tail -n1 | awk '{ print $2 " " $5}'`
VID=`echo $ME | awk '{ print $2 }'`
PROCDIR=`echo $ME | awk '{ print $1 }'`
echo "Video is at "${VID%?}
cd /proc/$PROCDIR && cd fd
cp ${VID%?} ~/flv/video-${VID%?}
}

Edit line 2
Edit line 6
+++ cp ${VID%?} ~/flv/video-${VID%?}
Copy flv file in ~/flv

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marcaemus

8 years ago

(Hit save not edit) Its here:
http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Save+cached+video?content=146399

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marcaemus

8 years ago

Written a script (not a function) to copy video to your home directory. Usage "mozz [filename]" will copy the cached video to $HOME/flvs/filename.flv.

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marcaemus

8 years ago

Also, what was the need to change line 6?

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marcaemus

8 years ago

Should have searched for lsof instead of hard-coding. Will update in next version.

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8 years ago

Speedup again and this time actually find the correct file descriptor.

Look for lsof instead of hard-coded path and graceful exit if no vid found.

1.0 will now find any number of simultaneous videos. Will only find the first instance of uzbl-tabbed.

1.1 Fixed a rather massive error where references to ~/.adobe/Flash_Player were incorrectly pick up.

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