Member Avatar for mansi sharma

H frnds , i want to donwload yahoo video,

Private Sub Form1_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load
        Dim myclient As New WebClient
        myclient.DownloadFile(source, dest)
    End Sub

I write the yahoo vido url in place of source above,But yahoo vido is not downlaoding,Y so ? Can somebody know this?

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Member Avatar for Ramy Mahrous

Because it's secured, if it's Shockwave video.

Member Avatar for Teme64

If you just want to download videos, there are some add-ons for Firefox (maybe for IE too) that can download streamed videos.

If you really want to do that with VB.NET, you can't use any simple DownloadFile method because the videos are streamed. Streamed videos are, however, saved to browser's cache memory. This applies to videos from Yahoo too.

You could try to use Webbrowser control to load videostream to cache, locate the right file from cache and then copy it to somewhere else. It will not be any easy thing to do, but IMO the only way to do it.

commented: Good explaination "How to save streams" +7
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