Dec 18, 2016 - I download the page it's on as HTML, find the link to the file, and then use ES's Download Manager to download it. But that's just me. Want to know how to download SWF files from websites to your local computer? We can find many flash music, flash games, flash tutorials when browsing the. Some of the most entertaining content on the Web exists in the form of SWF files. These are files that the Adobe Flash player plays when you visit a website that has Flash content. If you'd like to save an SWF so that you can view it again later, use a simple trick to copy its URL and download the.
Hey all,
Got a question that has me scratching my head a bit. If I am viewing a .swf file in Safari 7 (Read: The link in the address bar ends with the .swf extension, so it's not embedded in a page in such), how to I save this file to my hard drive?
When using File > Save As, I am given the options to either save as a Web Archive or as the Page Source. Saving as a web archive is useless (I'm not viewing a coded page when viewing an SWF file, so there is nothing for it to save), and saving as Page Source, while it does keep the SWF extension, is only designed to save the source text of the page, and again since I am not viewing a 'page', it spits out a zero KB file that also does nothing for me.
In other browsers such as Chrome or Firefox, performing File > Save As saves the SWF file to the hard drive. No muss, no fuss.
Also, just in case anybody feels the need to mention it, using Develop > Show Page Resources does not work in this instance, as there is no code to view, so the option is greyed out in the Develop menu.
Anybody have a solution for this? It would be nice to not have to open up another browser just to save SWF files. (Or any other file type that Safari reverts to this behavior on, for that matter.)
Safari 7.0-OTHER, OS X Mavericks (10.9)
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Currently I'm looking for a possibilty to download a .swf file. I need it, to present the page offline in a media-design lesson. The problem is not, that I don't know how to donwload a .swf file. The problem is, that this page got no real .swf file, which is embedded like normal. The page-description just says 'object', not 'embed'. Is there a possibilty to download the file?
Page: http://aquacarpatica.com/#/enDirect SWF-Link: http://aquacarpatica.com/data/main.swf
1 Answer
Right click your link ( in this very question! ).
Choose Save File As....
Just done this myself and have your SWF file on my local computer.
I appreciate that embedded resources aren't shown as something you can right click and download, but you can create a href link to them in a separate page.
So, create a new HTML file which you can view locally.
Include:-
..in your HTML file.
Open the file, right click the link = job done. Should work for any static linked content.