Downloading Videos from Youtube or Another Website Without Any Tools

Sometime you want to download some online videos streaming from metacafe, dailymotion, veoh, youtube, facebook, etc., to your Laptop or your PC so you could enjoy it without online. There are some option to download it, using some application that installed on your computer, using add on that added to your web browser, or using websites on the internet that will convert your video link in to download link, but you may don't have all of the tools or you want to save your time because you have already watched the whole video and you don't want to spend your time to download it to your hard disk. Here are a simple method to get the
video without any tools. We just have to locate the cache folder of the web browser as when the video is streamed and automatically saved in the cache folder and copy paste the video file from cache folder to your desired location in your harddisk. Before you performing the action it is recommended to make sure that you have unchecked the hide files and folders box so all of the file will appear normally. Here we go,


CASE 1 : GOOGLE CHROME

For windows Vista and Windows 7

The location of the cache folder at

C:\Users\USER_NAME\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\UserData\Default\Cache

C, being the system root. If you are not sure about the system root you can replace C: with %systemroot%.

don' t forget to replace USER_NAME to your windows username


For Windows Xp Users

The cache folder can be found at

C:\Documents and Settings\USER_NAME\Local Settings\Application Data\Google\Chrome


CASE 2 : MOZILLA FIREFOX

For Windows 7 and Windows Vista

The cache folder can be located at

C:\Users\USER_NAME \AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles


For Window Xp Users

The cache folder can be located at

C:\Documents and Settings\USER_NAME \Local Settings\Application Data


CASE 3 : INTERNET EXPLORER

On the tool bar of Internet Explorer go to Tools>Internet Options and then in Genereal tab click on Settings button. A new window will popup in front of you now click on View Files button.


HOW TO FIND YOUR VIDEO IN CACHE FOLDER

Once you have found the cache folder of your browser the next thing you have to do is finding your video file, and than arrange the files of the folder according to their size because video files usually  have large size. Open the largest files with a video player. Once you have found your video just copy it to your desired location. Another simple method to find your Video on the cache folder is by deleting all of the file in the cache folder before you play the video on your desired web browser, so you will just find a few files and it will make easy your finding process for the video file.

Enjoy your video!