YouTube is a great place to
watch your favorite videos online. After watching a video on YouTube you wish
to save it. So you go to desired YouTube downloader and download it. This
method will consume your time and data. But there is some work around that will
let you save the video that you have watched. This work around will save your
time and bandwidth. This only works with Google chrome.
Behind the scenes when we play
video online:
Every YouTube user is aware of
buffering. So what is this buffering? Buffering is nothing but the loading of
video in your local storage cache. So whenever you play video online, it first
gets stored to your local cache and then gets played. So our work is to find
out this stored file and then copy it computer’s hard drive.
Click And Clean Chrome
Extension :
Click and clean is Google
chrome extension that perform various task such as task manager, Disk Cleanup,
Scan for Malware and history etc. As we are interested in saving video,
we will focus on cache. Get this
extension for Google chrome and add it. Now whenever you finished watching
video on YouTube, click on Click and clean and select chache. It will
then start scanning temporary storage. Once finished scanning it will show
cashed video file that can be saved to your computer. This tool only enlists
the video files that are cashed as single file. It will not show the files that
are downloaded and stored in chunks. Grab the name of the file from cache and navigate to following path :
C:->Users->currently
logged user name->App data->Google->chrome->userdata->Default->cache
Once you navigate to this path,
copy the file name that we have copied from cache,and paste it in search box and
search for it. After locating this file copy it and paste it in desired
location and name it to anything.mp4 (note : you need to override the file
extension to mp4 to flv).
Now you will be able to play
your video locally on your computer without having to download it and without
spending extra bandwidth. Cheers…..
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