Using Safari's Activity window to download media

;-)
Ever heard of Firefox, anyone? It's some other browser. With several add-ons for this issue, e.g. Video DownloadHelper. (I'm aware that's so stereotypical…)
Good if you are very keen on (a medium-quality version of) that peculiar last.fm track… ehm, Youtube video, I mean.

And yes: that's definitely one of the methods that sites like last.fm are aware of – apparently, the present situation is acceptable for their licenses.
Btw, that must be one of the reasons why grooveshark uses that Flashy interface.

I believe that this only works with Safari on Mac OSX, not Windows. I'm not fully sure though, I haven't touched Windows or Safari on Windows since I upgraded my brother from IE a while ago.

You can use this hint to extract mp3s from a Pandora stream as well. Pandora sends the file with an obscure filename, but look for the file that's larger than the others. Capture that one, rename it with a .mp3 extension, and it will play in iTunes or whatever else you use.

It doesn't work with all sites. This uses RTMP and I can't figure out how to download the stream.

Stop publishing this tip or it'll get broken!! ;)

the activity viewer is extremely useful for my job - it's helped us track some malicious js injections, also helps identify what happens when something doesn't load due to badly formatted relative paths

also, at times if i require a company logo in vector, i download a flash movie to extract it. Activity vieweer helps a great deal in trackin all the files loaded by a site and i can grab the correct one quicker...

Too Cool. Never knew I could download Flash!

This is the best tip....that should've been kept a secret... Obviously the big players, like YouTube, for instance, know this can be done. However, many Safari users have NO idea this can be done. I'd hate to have word spread, and future releases of Safari implement something to combat this... To which I'm aware, this is one of the best (and last ways) to download YouTube vids?

You can do this in Firefox too.

Tools->Page Info->Media tab


One of the reasons I never use Safari is I can't command+enter in the address bar for domain completion. Is there a way to turn this on?

Another Safari trick is to paste a URL (such as the one you copied in this hint) into the Downloads window. That will cause Safari to download whatever you pasted.