Coredump

Okay, watching movies in the workplace is a definite no-no, but they didn’t say anything about listening to movies. But I’d rather do it offline, so I whipped up a little bookmarklet that will snag the .MP3 URL off the movies I chose.

1. First off, select a movie from the list.
2. Then list all the URLs in that page by using Javascript’s document.links object.
3. I noticed that the URI for the MP3 link is always the ninth, so just get the ninth URL: document.links[8].href.
4. Using a regular expression, winnow the URL:

   document.links[8].href.replace(new RegExp('[?&=]','g'),' ').split(' ')[2]

5. Drop in the javascript resource header, and voila! here’s the bookmarklet that will grab audio track’s URL for download. Right-click and bookmark the link. Or, drag and drop the link to the bookmarks toolbar.

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