Download Flash animation with FlashGet

FlashGet has a built-in site resource explorer. Select the Site Explorer under the Tools menu (or press F7 directly) to bring it up. It looks like a resource manager under Windows. Its function is to analyze the elements contained in the web page, and then list them in the form of a tree directory, so that users can selectively download files.

The method of use is very simple: enter the web address in the address bar, then press Enter, select the desired file from the listed directory, and then download it with FlashGet. In this article, the author introduces you to use FlashGet to capture Flash animation.

Flash animations are very beautiful, but they are difficult to download, because Flash animations are well integrated with web pages, and are usually embedded in web pages using HTML language. It is difficult for people who are not familiar with HTML grammar to Stripped out of the page. However, using the site resource explorer provided by FlashGet, you can "end" the webpage containing the Flash animation, and then carefully analyze and find the desired Flash animation files and download them separately.

First, enter the URL containing the Flash animation file web page into the address bar of the Site Explorer and press Enter. You can see that FlashGet starts to detect the webpage elements in the webpage. The website tree structure appears on the left side of the window, and the webpage elements contained in the webpage are on the right side.

Next, analyze the elements in the web page. There are many elements in a web page, and the files with the suffix .swf or .exe are what we need. Here, you can use the “filter” function under the editing menu to speed up the search. In the "Filter" function dialog box, first select "Show only the following types", then enter .swf and .exe in the file category below, note that the two file types are separated by a semicolon, and then determine. All the Flash animation files included in the selected web page will appear in the box on the right.

Finally, download the animation file. Right-click on the desired file and select the "Download" command. Then you will see the familiar window and set it up according to the situation.