Copying part of a website

[Jerry Hughes]

Hello,
Office Max has a site called "elfyourself.com" where you can upload your
face onto some dancing Christmas elfs. Really cute. But everytime you want
to view the little skit of dancing elfs, you have to go to their website by
clicking on their link. I wrote Office Max and asked them if I could
download the small video to my hard drive and they said as long as it was for
my personal use, there would be no problem. Problem is, I don't know if it
is possible to download this 30 second video (probably Flash) to my hard
drive. Would anyone know if this is possible and how? I am using Vista Home
Premium. If you'd like to see what I'm talking about, here is the link.
http://www.elfyourself.com/?id=1279849432 Thank you very much. P.S. if
you'd like to see the letter I got from Office Max, giving me permission to
copy the elfs, I can send it to you.

Jerry

 

[Jerry Hughes]

Additional info.

Here is the statement that allows a person to download for their own
personal use. Thank you.

Use . You may not copy, reproduce, distribute, publish, display, perform,
modify, create derivative works of, transmit, sell, or in any way exploit any
portion of the Website, except that you may download Content from the Website
as machine readable copies and/or print copies of any web page, provided that
such copies will be used for your own personal (non-commercial) use and not
for the purposes of competing in any manner with OfficeMax.

 

[Jrz]

Jerry, normally I'd say to use Firefox, click for Page Info and you
could download it from there. But a quick look seems to indicate that
this particular Flash is not the simple case - i.e., it calls a file
which calls a file, etc

Btw, you can always right-click something that you think is Flash, and
if it says, "About Adobe Flash Player...", then you know.

 

[bomb#20]

Hello,
Office Max has a site called "elfyourself.com" where you can
upload your face onto some dancing Christmas elfs. Really cute. But
everytime you want to view the little skit of dancing elfs, you have
to go to their website by clicking on their link. I wrote Office Max
and asked them if I could download the small video to my hard drive
and they said as long as it was for my personal use, there would be
no problem. Problem is, I don't know if it is possible to download
this 30 second video (probably Flash) to my hard drive. Would anyone
know if this is possible and how? I am using Vista Home Premium. If
you'd like to see what I'm talking about, here is the link.
http://www.elfyourself.com/?id=1279849432 Thank you very much.
P.S. if you'd like to see the letter I got from Office Max, giving
me permission to copy the elfs, I can send it to you.

Jerry

First of all I am using XP, so these instructions may not work for Vista.
The link to the video is here:

http://www.elfyourself.com/media/flv/elf_intro.flv

You will be asked if you want to save the file.
Save the file to your desktop. The file is called elf_intro.flv.
If Windows Media Player can't handle it then use the free Gom Player:

http://www.gomplayer.com/main.html

Actually the video is of a headless elf !!

If all else fails I can post the video somewhere for you to download.
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[Tere]

First of all I am using XP, so these instructions may not work for Vista.
The link to the video is here:

I'mhaving issues too Would love to down load our one but can't seem
to work out how. vixy didn't work and i tried following your
instructions but it wouldn't open...

http://www.elfyourself.com/media/flv/elf_intro.flv

You will be asked if you want to save the file.
Save the file to your desktop. The file is called elf_intro.flv.
If Windows Media Player can't handle it then use the free Gom Player:

http://www.gomplayer.com/main.html

Actually the video is of a headless elf !!

If all else fails I can post the video somewhere for you todownload.
[1.3 m/b]
.

 

[mayayana]

I don't know about that specific site, but if you
use Firefox you can install the DownloadHelper
plugin (free). It puts an icon on the toolbar that
changes color when a page has flash, flash video,
etc., allowing you to download whatever's there.
It works on youtube, etc.

 

[Dave]

I had tried Realplayer, which adds a download plug-in to Firefox, and I
tried The Download Helper...
Both download some video, but it's just the dancing elves, without the faces
or the background.

 

[mayayana]

I had tried Realplayer, which adds a download plug-in to Firefox, and I

tried The Download Helper...
Both download some video, but it's just the dancing elves, without the faces
or the background.

I see. I'd be surprised if you could get it all put
together. That would mean they're creating a new
..swf file for each visitor. I don't know much about
Flash, but I'd guess that they're doing some kind
of dynamic, script-based, code to overlay the image
onto a generic elf video. The image itself may not
even be getting uploaded if they're able to work
the script from client-side.

 

[Jerry Hughes]

Thank you everyone! I would have answered earlier but the email notification
did not work so I didn't know there were any responses. I will try some of
these answers and see if I can download. But if I can only download the
"empty" elfs, I won't have a follow up program to add the heads. Thanks
again,

Jerry