Deadly ninja tactics to download and keep any movie from any website

I believe I’m the first SEO consultant to state this officially, but I have to admit that I spend a lot of money on SEO training materials, using other people’s experience and also testing myself what works well and what doesn’t work anymore. I learn from the best, and then I apply the most efficient SEO techniques, thus getting the best results possible for my clients – just Google “monthly seo services” or “ethical seo company” and you’ll see where this website is ranking.

As I was buying those expensive SEO courses (most of them are full of fluff, but you can pick a golden nugget from time to time), I wanted to make sure that I can have access to the training movies even at 7 a.m., when a particular website was down for maintenance on a daily basis, or even when the seller removed the movies from his website after 6 months, thinking that nobody is interested in viewing them anymore – this happens quite often and there aren’t too many things that you can do about it.

Anyway, this article isn’t supposed to discuss about my monthly SEO services; my goal is to show you how I can download any movie I want and view it anytime I want to. There are several ninja tactics I’m using and I’m listing them all here, starting with the easiest ones and moving on to the more complex methods, which require more work but have much greater success rates.

1) The first method involves the usage of the DownloadHelper Firefox plugin. Install the plugin in Firefox, and then simply navigate to the desired web page; if the embedded movie can be downloaded, you will see that the little icon at the right side of the “Forward” browser arrow gets colored. Just click the little triangle arrow pointing downwards and you’ll see a list with all the movies / movie resolutions that can be downloaded from that page.

2) Sometimes the DownloadHelper plugin won’t show any movie download options; in this case, if you right click the movie window and you can find “Copy video URL” or a similar option in the contextual menu, you can then paste the copied URL at the Keepvid website and download it from there.

The Keepvid website also offers a downloadable application that can be used for similar purposes, but the free online version does the same job; simply paste the URL of the video in the “Enter video URL” box, allow the website to run its script and then you will see all the available download links, just like in the picture below.

3) What should you do if none of the methods above work? Open Firefox, go to the desired address, and then click the right mouse button in an area that doesn’t contain any text; this should bring up a contextual menu that includes the “View Page Info” option (you need Firefox to do it). Choose that option, click the “Media” tab just like I did in the picture below, and then go through all the items from the “Type” column until you discover the media file (movie, etc) that interests you.

Right click the desired media file path, and the choose copy – now you can paste that link in a browser to download the movie, or (if the browser opens the movie instead of downloading it) paste it into a word processor like Microsoft Word, press the Enter key to create a hyperlink to the movie, and then save the file as html on your desktop. Double click the html file to open it, and then right click the link to download the movie to your computer.

I know that this might sound a bit too complicated, so I have created the picture below that will walk you through all the steps.

4) Sometimes the movie URL is very well hidden; in this case, you can right click an empty area of the page and choose “View Page Source” (Firefox) or “View source” (Internet Explorer) – this will open the source code for the website page that you are currently viewing. I know that the code might look a bit scary, but don’t worry – we aren’t going to change anything (in fact, we can’t change anything).

Press the “Ctrl” and “F” keys to open the “Find” dialog, and then type in typical a movie extension: .mp4, .swf, .flw are the most common ones (don’t forget to include the dot). Go through all the results until you discover the URL that includes a proper movie name (take a look at the picture below to see an example), and then copy / paste it in a browser window to download it; if it opens up in the browser instead of popping out the download window simply paste the URL in a word processor and continue with the steps I’ve detailed while I was explaining the 3rd method.

5) I have to admit that sometimes it’s almost impossible to download the movies because the server they’re on is encrypting the information. Still, this last method that has a 100% success rate: you can record anything that is visible on the screen using a free tool like Debut Video Capture – the free version works perfectly. The only drawback is the fact that you need to play the entire movie in order to record it, but I guess that we can all live with that.

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