I need to download a number of pages of a magazine issue which is available via online viewer made in Flash. The player loads a page image and allows to scroll it.

Is it possible to extract the image from flash cache data?

Simple screenshots don't work in this case, because the images are larger than my screen, and merging parts would be too time consuming - I would like to avoid this.

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Once you have the flash file then you can convert it into images using this free software

SWF To Image GUI 1.00

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Clunky, but I've used LiveHttpHeaders sometimes to see the URL, then download the file myself. Obviously only tolerable for a small number of images.

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I just needed to something similar for JCPenney Portraits viewer, and was able to do it by simply capturing all the image requests going out using the "Live HTTP Headers" extension for Firefox. Just extract all URL's into a file, say urls.txt and use wget -i urls.txt (or create a shell script with a wget line for each and specify -O <filename> and run the script).

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