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How to Steal Any Media Off Any Site
Note: this will require some technical knowledge of MSDOS / terminal.
This tutorial will show you how to steal media such as videos and music off websites that are embedding them. The complexity of this varies from site to site. The program that I will use for this is wireshark (www.wireshark.org). Most people use wireshark to sniff other peoples wifi networks, but it can also be used to sniff your own. Anyway, open it up and go on the site that you know the media is being played on, but make sure that the media hasn’t already loaded or this may not work. As an example I will use music.aol.com
Now in wireshark select capture – interfaces and select your IP address and press start. Open the page with the media on and start playing it. Wireshark should now be flooded with requests but be patient and let the media load fully. Once the media has loaded, select capture –> stop to stop recording. Just above the information there should be a button that says info (next to protocol), press this to arrange all the requests in alphabetical order
Now scroll down to the "GET" requests. Look carefully through them until you see one that looks like it could be the media your looking for. The example below shows a nirvana song from aol music.
Select this and right click it, and choose copy –> summary (text) and open up notepad or any other text editor and right click and select paste. I get this:
90 14.473947 192.168.1.5 84.53.123.45 HTTP
GET /aol/us/aolmusic/artists/universal/nirvana/nirvana_allapologies_128_a_dl.flv
HTTP/1.1
You only need the part in blue.
Try adding this to the current url. If it works then a download should start and you can skip to the next step. With aol, I know it doesn’t so heres the next step: The middle window shows more information about the url when it is clicked, scroll down to the bottom of this and click "HyperText Transfer Protocol" and click the + button. Now look at the GET option and you should see a field called host. This shows you the start of the url (see picture below)
That’s it, you now have the full media url. In my case the host is
pdl.stream.aol.com so that makes the full url
http://pdl.stream.aol.com/aol/us/aolmusic/artists/universal/nirvana/nirvana_allapologies_128_a_dl.flv
open this up in your browser, and a download should start.
If the file type is an mp3 or the correct file type your looking for then that’s it, your done. If it’s the correct file type like flv in this example you will need to convert it.
Converting the File
Download ffmpeg Here and open MSDOS / terminal depending on your operating system. Rename the flv file something simple like "song.flv" and put it in the same folder as ffmpeg. Navigate the the folder flv is in using dos / teminal (cd command) then type the following syntax:
ffmpeg -i song.flv
song.mp3
For songs. For videos it is slightly more complicated. The best command I find is
ffmpeg -i filename.flv -sameq -acodec copy filename.mpg
It also supports other formats such as wmv. If done correctly it should show you the file size it will be at the bottom of the window like in the picture below. Note the output name of the file cant contain spaces, youll have to rename the file once it has been converted.
Well that’s it. This will be hard to begin with, but with practise you should be able to get any media off any site.
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