How to download online flash (.swf) games, animations or videos from a web page? The idea of this post was crossed into my mind when I played an online flash game. There are times you found interesting flash games in a website, have you ever thought how to save or download the game? Do you want to save the game and play it offline? If you are looking for a method to save online flash games / animations / videos then you are in the right place 
Shockwave flash format (.swf) has been used widely by many websites, ie. for advertisement, animated banner, header or background, embedded videos, games and etc. The advantages of using this format are the file size (which is quite small) thus it is very effective especially for flash video, moreover animations can help website looks more attractive. Sometimes when we see a flash video or play a flash game on a website, we want to save it on our hard drive, so that we can see or play it offline. But how to save the .swf file? For some people this is often confusing, because there is no option menu to save it. Here are two simple tricks to save an embedded .swf file into your hard drive.
How to download embedded flash games / animations / videos (.swf file) from a web page?
Method 1 – Using Mozilla Firefox Browser
1. Open a web page that contains swf flash games or videos or animations that you want to save.
For example I want to save flash game from this webpage:
2. Right click on any empty area from the web page – and then click “Page Info”
3. Switch to “Media” tab
Now your mission is to find out the embedded .swf flash file.
If you have found the right file, then select it and click “Save As”
4. Done! You have saved the .swf file, you can now play it offline on your computer
Method 2
1. Go to File2HD.com. It is an online based tool to search any files in a web page.
2. Copy the URL that contains embedded swf flash games / videos/ animations that you want to download
3. Paste to URL box on File2HD
Select (tick) on “I have read and agree to the Terms of Service” checkbox
On the filter options, select (tick) on “Objects” checkbox
Click “Get Files”
4. Now you can save the .swf file into your computer, just right click on the file and choose “Save Link As” or you can save it with your download manager.
To run .swf files you can use flash player, browser (that has installed with flash plugin), GOM player or other media player that supports flash. Okay folks, that’s all for the tricks on how to download online .swf flash games, videos and animations. Enjoy!
