Firebug and Myspace, Part Two
My short sidenote on using Firebug to download streaming songs from Myspace has turned into somewhat of a circus. Many people have been trying a bit too hard to get downloads to work. This rewrite eliminates some steps thanks to some comments by some users who found easier ways to get the songs, without all four steps. Hopefully these new set of instructions will help those of you who are struggling with the original method.
Step One: Visit a Profile
Straightforward enough. Head over to the intended bands myspace page and bring up Firebug. You must have Firebug installed and you must be using Firefox in order for this to work.
Once you have Firebug open (either by clicking the icon in the lower right corner of Firefox or going to Tools>Firebug>Open Firebug), click on the net tab, which will show you the status of all the various elements loading on the page. For this example we’ll be using a band that broke up a short time ago called The Waiting Game.
Step Two: Pull the Download Url
With Firebug open and yourself on the band’s profile page, click your required song and watch the Net tab in Firebug refresh. Scroll down to the bottom of the Net tab, because the song should have been the last thing loaded if you just clicked on it. It will be named something like “std…”. Copy the url by right clicking on the “std…” link and copying it.
New Tab, Edit, and Download
The last step is to open a new tab, paste the url, and make one small edit. Find “std” in your newly pasted url and change it to “full”. Press enter and you should be presented with a download box in Firefox. If you have some kind of built in media player that may attempt to play the song in the browser window, you may have to save the link in an html file and than right click it and use “Save file as…” to get the download to work. Do all this while the song is still playing and you should be fine.
Notes about the method
Myspace is frequently changing methods of downloads, so we can not guarantee how long the method will continue to work for. Devlounge is a resource for designers and developers, so this will be the last post about Myspace and song downloading. The initial post was simply a trick, and the only purpose of this post was to clear up the many questions people had about getting this method to work. Please do not ask for support, because if you’re download doesn’t work, it’s not up to us.
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Great minds think alike!
I recently wrote a quick article on doing pretty much the same thing but for bebo.com (another myspace style social networking site)
You can read it here: http://foobr.co.uk/2007/02/download_tracks_from_bebo_using_firebug/
To try and make things a little bit easier I also wrote a quick greasemonkey script which turns track names into download links.
Am sure something similar would be possible for myspace?
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- Access Denied -
so a few of my friends and tried this out and were denied access. oh well it happens.
Thanx for the tips!
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got working. once i logged in it started working. Did not work for some other people.
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I get it to work no matter if I’m logged in or not. The directions aren’t that complicated, I’m not sure why so many people are finding it difficult.
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instead of changing “std” to “full” just go to the end of the address bar and add “.mp3″ and press enter where you find fire fox loading a quicktime bar with the song ready for download as an mp3 when you click “save page as” in the file menu
you’re all very welcome
j/j
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i got most of them to work, however when i get the the 4th song on the profile, the cache url it gives me is usually the first song.
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My god this method is great
whoever made this trick public, id seriously kiss their shoe
great job on making it public
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I discovered it, so you heard / read it hear first
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It’s one of the cool things of having dev tools in your browser.
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Worked perfectly as described. Thanks.
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This method still works as of March-03-2007, just make sure you keep the song playing on the original myspace page while getting the link and pasting it into the new tab, otherwise you’ll get the “access denied” message
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Still works. March 17, 2007.
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Works great.Not complicated at all.Thanks a bunch!
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access denied :S
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Go quick people! Seriously, it takes about 10 seconds to do this, there should be no way anyone gets access denied messages.
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Brilliant!! It worked perfectly. Thank you!
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Still works fine as of 3.28.07.
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i think i found out why is someone get access denied…. remove your proxies….. coz that what happen to me, when i remove my proxies… it actually work now for me….. try it
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When you find the link in Net inspector simply right click it and choose open in a new tab. This worked for me when all other options gave me “Access Denied”.
Hope this helps.
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even easier is downloadhelper (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3006). install the thing, then go to a site, click on the orb thing (it spins when there’s something you can download) choose the song and it downloads. you have to click the song on the player on the profile first, then click the orb thing to download it. and there’s no access denied messages either.
great for youtube as well
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Amazing! This way is much easier and faster I might add. Thanks a bunch!
keep on keeping on
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does anyone know if this can be made to work on purevolume…….if it can…..how?
thanks,
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