Saving watched online videos in linux, firefox cache flash extractor bash script

I recently upgraded to Ubuntu 10.10 and needed to rewrite a couple of useful scripts I use.

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.