How to:Retrieve unsaved Youtube videos

The last time if you had just quit your browser without saving the videos you just watched using Unplug,youtube-dl,clive etc on Mozilla firefox, this post tells you how to retrieve it.

Step1:Point your browser's URL to "about:cache"(w/o quotes).Here you see two entries Memory cache device,Disk cache device. Click on List Cache Entries
under Disk cache devices.

Step2: Here you find many entries. Do a search for "Youtube"(by using ctrl+f).

if you find something like this:

           Key: http://lax-v172.lax.youtube.com/get_video?

then click on it.("get video" indicates a video stored on the disk cache)

Step3: The entry shows where the file is stored. Go to the address(in windows) or do a

$ cp source destination

on Linux systems.

Step4: Rename the file as "filename.flv". and watch it with your favorite player.

This should even work for Mozilla Firefox 3b which doesn't support many add-ons at least for now.

And also this technique works for all most all "User submitted" video sites like www.tvliveshows.com  etc.


I learned this trick from here
Thank you Sreepathi Pai

And also Happy hacking!