Guys have you ever waited for a video from youtube to load and after watching it wanted to download it?

Most of us may have and must have used external links to download them, waiting to download the whole video again.

But why downloading the same video twice?

Ya its true, You can have the video if you know where to look.

The answer is the cache folder itself.

I will show you how to get it from Mozilla Firefox and opera.( I’m Not good with IE, but You can always check at Temp dir )

  • First you got to have the location of  cache, which u can get by typing “about:cache” in mozilla or just “about” in opera
  • copy the cache location and open  it.
  • [in opera its in "sesn" folder]
  • By checking the details of the file like time and size you can easily identify the file. don’t mind the file name though
  • chose the file and rename it ( change extension ) and you are done
  • Enjoy

It can check the type of a single file now. I’m planning to make a better version.

Hope this Tip/Trick be useful to you.

And remember it works well with images and flash also .

if you are not sure which file is which, here is a simple tool that helps to find the original type of the file. (its not complete yet, but works for flv,mp4, pdf ,images and  flash )

FileIdentifier