The other answer is that ....once you hear/see those clips, you already DO have them on your hard drive. They do not make it easy to find them, but they are there...at least until you close your browser.


If you use Firefox, you can type about:cache into the address box, then click on 'disk cache' and get a listing. Even better....get a Firefox add-on called cacheviewer and have a searchable list of the items you have viewed. There you can copy or move the item and rename it if you wish.

Another way is to use this cache viewer from NirSoft or a specific video cach viewer
(they also provide an I.E. cache viewer and an Opera cache viewer'

I have used these things...they do work. A few tries, and you'll have the routine down. It's as easy as figuring out how to navigate FaceBook!


I now keep a file manager with tabs, like browser tabs, marking the various cache locations in different browsers, and simply go there, look at the newest entries, and move & rename them....adding the proper extension...(in the case of YouTube, .flv).

It's fun realizing you are doing something they didn't want you to know about.

Yes...you CAN experiment with Audacity and various download programs, and I have made some of those work also....but just taking what is there and putting it where YOU want is not difficult. (Remember...many of these files, being in the cache, are designed to be TEMP files which are deleted when you close the browser, or after a certain size limit is reached.)

just as a matter of interest, here is something I posted in a newsgroup over 2 years ago:

"I am not sure everyone realizes that as soon as you play a YouTube
video (or most other 'Tube' clones, it IS already downloaded...you
just need to know where to look for it.
   In my case, because I use Opera 9, it is in a subdirectory under
'profile' -> 'cache4' with a coded name like OprOgdiw.flv
   I simply go to my file manager (I use Free Commander). look at the
date/time to be sure it's what I just watched, and move it to the
directory I want and rename it...either to the YouTube name, or
whatever I wish.
*IF* you use Firefox or some other browser, the directory will
probably be under 'documents & settings' -> 'owner'-> 'local
settings'-> 'application data'.->'Firefox'->'cache'.......something
like that..(I know, they don't make it easy)...but it is always a good
thing to know where stuff and the various 'temp' files are stored on
your machine."