How to extract images from a flash image-viewer?

Question

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.

Solution 1

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

SWF To Image GUI 1.00

Solution 2

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.

Comments

[Matt]

Which OS are you using? Which browser? There are tools for Linux (and such) like mencoder or pacpl... and browsers will tend to cache the files in /tmp like /tmp/FlashXyZ23 (for example). You can generally copy the cache to your home directory and run the file through the converter.

[luchonacho]

Maybe this answer helps.

[Andrei]

I would be happy to have just flash file with images to see them offline. However, normally, the flash file doesn't contain images, and downloads them on demand. So when one saves it and then opens - it gives an error message.