How to Download Trailers from Apple.com

If you are like me, you find streaming trailers from Apple is a pain in the ass. I still prefer having the trailer locally and playing it locally, even if it means a bit of screwing around. Here’s a quick way to download trailers:

1. Install the Firefox web browser
2. Install the Greasemonkey add-on for Firefox
3. Install wget for Windows (most Linux distros will have it installed already)
4. Add the Apple Trailer Download script to your greasemonkey distribution.
5. Enable greasemonkey
6. Go to an Apple trailer page, like The Slammin’ Salmon page
7. Note in the bottom right you’ll get a little window with a bunch of links to the various versions – looks like this:

apple-greasemonkey

Right click, copy link location for the version you want

8. Open a command prompt and fire up wget thusly:

wget -U QuickTime [url of trailer]
You need to specify the -U parameter (User-Agent) as Apple rejects any requests for trailers that are not from QuickTime.

10. Realise that this method violates the Apple.com Terms of Use and stop doing it.

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