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How to download videos from Pepper Flash on linux

· One min read
Mikael Finstad

The new Pepper Flash plugin broke my old script for listing/downloading cached flash/flv videos.

Here is a new script. Uses sudo because the /proc/$PID/fd directory is root only. This solution is based on silviot's solution here: http://superuser.com/questions/622606/how-do-i-save-the-buffered-flash-video-on-linux.

#!/bin/bash
for FLASHPID in $( pgrep -f chrom ) ; do (for FLASHFILE in $(sudo ls -l /proc/$FLASHPID/fd|egrep "(/tmp/Flash|Pepper Data)" | sed -r 's/^.* ([0-9]+) -> .*$/\1/'); do echo /proc/$FLASHPID/fd/$FLASHFILE; done ); done

Then you can just copy the file into home, like:

cp /proc/26493/fd/30 ~/