Portable URL Snooper

Most media hosting websites do not make the direct links to videos or songs visible to you and your browser, often hiding them behind various scripts, mainly to prevent them from being downloaded.

However, there are means of bypassing the restrictions imposed by websites with the help of software. One such utility is Portable URL Snooper, a standalone program that, with the help of WinPcap, can detect multimedia links in a page you are browsing and display them for you to work with.

As the same suggests, the application does not require to be installed on your system for it to function properly. As such, you can just decompress the downloaded archive and run the executable to get started.

Portable URL Snooper can be run on any compatible system, even from a removable storage device, but bear in mind that without WinPcap on the host system, it will not work correctly.

The first time you launch the tool, it will run in simple mode, relying on a default set of parameters and providing you with results in a readable form, whenever you are browsing multimedia-rich websites.

From the ‘File’ menu, however, you can switch to advanced mode, which allows you to modify certain settings and customize them to suit your needs. As such, you can change the ‘Protocol Filter’, apply exclusions or define specific criteria to filter the detected URLs.

The ‘General Options’ tab enables you to go even further and configure the sniffing engine driver, select a different network adapter or set the auto-detect adapter, a website used for checkup tasks. Once the results are in, you can either copy them to clipboard or export them all to a TXT file, for later.

Overall, Portable URL Snooper proves to be an effective and user-friendly software solution that you can resort to whenever you need to identify the link for a movie or song from a website, returning the corresponding result in moments, so you can record it and save it to your PC.