In this presentation I show you how to download any presentation from slideshare. Even if the author does not allow it.

1. Slideshare
Download
Even when it is disabled!

2. What is this about?
I will show you, how to download any author disabled
presentations from Slideshare. For free!
This article is for informational purposes only. DO NOT violate
Slidshare’s terms and conditions!

3. Step 1
Go to the presentation you are trying to
download.
I will use http://www.slideshare.net/dharmeshs/culture-code-
creating-a-company-you-love from Dharmesh Shah (sorry
bro) as an example. It was rated one of the top presentations
from SWSX 2013, has over 50,000 views and is not available
for download.

4. Step 2
Open the source code view.
In Chrome, Firefox, Opera and IE you just have to press Ctrl
and U at the same time.

5. Step 3
Search for <meta name="thumbnail"
In Chrome, Firefox, Opera and IE you just have to press Ctrl
and F at the same time.

6. Step 4
Copy the URL in “content”
I copy it to Notepad++ but any text editor will do.

7. Step 5
Cut off everything after phpapp01
Note: Sometimes you will get phpapp02 instead of phpapp01.
The procedure will be the same.
OLD:
http://cdn.slidesharecdn.com/ss_thumbnails/sxsw-lean-startup-2013-
dharmesh-v3-130309161433-phpapp01-thumbnail-2.jpg?1363127230
NEW:
http://cdn.slidesharecdn.com/ss_thumbnails/sxsw-lean-startup-2013-
dharmesh-v3-130309161433-phpapp01

8. Step 6
Remove the “ss_thumbnails /“ part
OLD:
http://cdn.slidesharecdn.com/ss_thumbnails/sxsw-lean-startup-2013-
dharmesh-v3-130309161433-phpapp01
NEW:
http://cdn.slidesharecdn.com/sxsw-lean-startup-2013-dharmesh-v3-
130309161433-phpapp01

9. Step 7
Add .xml
OLD:
http://cdn.slidesharecdn.com/sxsw-lean-startup-2013-dharmesh-v3-
130309161433-phpapp01
NEW:
http://cdn.slidesharecdn.com/sxsw-lean-startup-2013-dharmesh-v3-
130309161433-phpapp01.xml

10. Step 8
Open the .xml file in your browser
In our case, it is http://cdn.slidesharecdn.com/sxsw-lean-
startup-2013-dharmesh-v3-130309161433-phpapp01.xml
You should see a list of .swf files. Every file represents one
slide of the presentation.
Save the list of URLs.

11. Step 9
Open PowerPoint and create a new presentation
I used PowerPoint 2010 and my screenshots show the
German version of PowerPoint.

12. Step 10
Enable the Developer Ribbon
An explanation can be found here
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/vstudio/bb608625.aspx

13. Step 10
In the developer tab, select the hammer/wrench icon

14. Step 11
In the menu, select „Shockwave Flash Object“

15. Step 12
Press your left mous button an draw a square
on an empty slide
A square like this should appear.
Hint: Make it really large, so it fills the whole slide.

16. Step 13
Right click on the square and select properties
A menu like this should appear:

17. Step 14
Where it says “movie”, insert the first .swf-URL
In our case that is
http://slideshare.s3.amazonaws.com/sxsw-lean-startup-2013-
dharmesh-v3-130309161433-phpapp01-slide-1.swf

18. Step 15
Congratulations, you just loaded the first slide
I usually have to start the presentation once for
Powerpoint to load the slide.

19. Step 16
Repeat steps 10 – 14 for all others swf-
URLs/slides.

20. Step 17
Once you are done, you can save the
presentation as .PPT or .PDF.

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