Here's a simplified version of a bash script that reads your firefox cache, finds flash files over a certain size, saves them in directory and opens the directory with nautilus to browse the extracted videos/flash files:
#!/bin/bash
# flvcache script
CACHE=~/.mozilla/firefox/xxxxxxxx.default/Cache
OUTPUTDIR=~/Videos/flvs
MINFILESIZE=2M
for f in `find $CACHE -size +$MINFILESIZE`
do
a=$(file $f | cut -f2 -d ' ')
o=$(basename $f)
if [ "$a" = "Macromedia" ]
then
cp "$f" "$OUTPUTDIR/$o"
fi
done
nautilus "$OUTPUTDIR"&
Remember to chmod 755 the file so you can execute it from the command line.
Change the variable CACHE to your firefox cache location, it'll be somewhere like: ~/.mozilla/firefox/xxxxxxxx.default/Cache
Create a directory to save them into, I chose:
mkdir ~/Videos/flvs
I hope somebody finds this useful.
The script is presented in a simplified format to show bash scripting, you can see how to: use a for loop using bash, load output from external programs into a variable using bash and use an if statement using bash.
