Saturday, November 14, 2009

UrlSnooper.. awesome tool

Many links to streaming audio and video that you come across on the web are hidden behind JavaScript, Macromedia Flash, ActiveX. Because of this, it is sometimes very difficult to figure out the actual urls that correspond to the streams being played.   That's where UrlSnooper kicks in.  UrlSnooper provides a one-stop easy solution to finding the URLs for all streams.  It does this by watching network traffic and identifying potential urls, especially streaming media urls.

Past few years I have been using this simple yet powerful tool to find the actual urls behing the streaming content and then I can easily download the content in its original form using a dowload player like Orbit Player.
This is a freeware (actually a donationware). So go ahead and try it.

You can download it from here.

Note: After installation, you need to first open UrlSnooper and hit "Sniff network".  Then you can open the browser (firefox works fine for me) and play the media.  Urlsnooper will catch the url behind the media and shows in the list.

Screenshots:


screen capture of URL Snooper


screenshot of URL Snooper

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