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Comment on Ask HN: How to rip videos from sites like CNN.com?

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Using Firefox Web Console it's possible to obtain all the fetched URLs. The one containing the video was: http://ht.cdn.turner.com/cnn/big//us/2011/09/07/bts-msnbc-pe...

I don't have a generic way of extracting this information from any site, but looking at those network sources that are used is always a good place to start. Using extensions such as Flashblock will let you control when you're going to start downloading, and there will be fewer URLs to look through.

Oh hell yes. This method works perfectly :-)

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