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Sunday, January 23, 2011

"Open Pandora's Box" Hack

[For Educational Purposes.]

Say you're playing some Pandora, and want the song that's currently playing for free...

You'll need
-Firefox and the Firebug plugin
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/firebug/

1) Launch Firefox and login to Pandora. Play your preferred radio station.
2) Click "Activate Firebug for this website" for mac users click the Firebug emblem in the window's lower right corner
3) Click the "Net" tab within the firebug pane. (enable it if it's not already)
4) Scroll to the bottom of the net tab. The item closest to the bottom that is larger than 1MB is the song currently playing.
5) Right click it and "copy location." Paste it into your url bar. Download it.
6) Rename the resulting download and change the extension to "mp3"

See screenshot below.

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36 comments:

  1. ZachJanuary 23, 2011 at 8:46 PM

    love the hacks keep em coming

    evanztories.blogspot.com

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  2. Saving Money {The FL way}January 23, 2011 at 8:59 PM

    Going to try this, good read.

    southfloridathriftymom.blogspot.com/

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  3. UnknownJanuary 23, 2011 at 9:04 PM

    Nifty, may have to reconsider my exclusive usage of Chrome for this.

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  4. my day in a sentenceJanuary 24, 2011 at 6:55 AM

    Cool hack! :)

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  5. Al FrancesJanuary 24, 2011 at 2:28 PM

    Awesome. I wonder how long it'll be before they notice, better make the most of it. Now following.

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  6. The WyrdremJanuary 24, 2011 at 2:35 PM

    followed

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  7. JordanJanuary 24, 2011 at 3:02 PM

    Nice!!!

    Followed.

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  8. AnonymousJanuary 24, 2011 at 3:17 PM

    Sweet post.

    Thanks for follow, Followed.

    http://TechBlogBeHere.blogspot.com

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  9. AnonymousJanuary 24, 2011 at 3:33 PM

    This is some pretty good educational information. Sounds like it could be useful if one would put it into practice.

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  10. ChrisJanuary 24, 2011 at 4:03 PM

    cool tips and tricks, be careful with Pandora's box though you never know what might come out!

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  11. tyroneJanuary 24, 2011 at 4:10 PM

    good info.. followed

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  12. forkfantasyJanuary 24, 2011 at 4:14 PM

    oooooooh. ;D

    forkfantasy.blogspot.com

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  13. Some dudeJanuary 24, 2011 at 4:51 PM

    This would have been handy back when I used Pandora. Now, Im all about lastfm. Hehe, youre sorta1337 and my blog is 1337dps.blogspot.com Mines about video games and whatnot though. Anyway, following!

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  14. MonkeyPantsJanuary 24, 2011 at 4:55 PM

    Holy shit that's incredible.

    Followin'!

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  15. OverthinkerJanuary 24, 2011 at 7:14 PM

    Dude, that's so cool!
    Hope to see more stuff like this.. ;D

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  16. UnknownJanuary 24, 2011 at 8:18 PM

    Woah pretty cool. Tempting to start using Pandora again.

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  17. FangJanuary 24, 2011 at 10:38 PM

    Never used Pandora. I just download complete albums/discographies through torrents, works quicker for me. Still, nice to know everything is so easily "hackable" :3

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  18. OonoesJanuary 25, 2011 at 2:20 AM

    Wait, is there any way you can get in trouble for this?

    Wouldn't want to lose out on pandora if I can help it...

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  19. Abdyli InterestsJanuary 25, 2011 at 4:01 AM

    i heard about this and finallllly I have it.

    Following :)

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  20. C. B.January 25, 2011 at 5:57 AM

    This information will be used thank you! Following to see all your interesting tips.

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  21. poorfagsJanuary 25, 2011 at 11:16 PM

    Damn! My brother uses pandora all the time (I don't, I prefer youtube) I'm defiantly showing this to him.

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  22. DerekJanuary 26, 2011 at 11:11 AM

    nice followed

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  23. RoseJanuary 26, 2011 at 5:44 PM

    is it legal

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  24. DBtG5January 27, 2011 at 7:32 AM

    Awesome man, I'm definitely trying this

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  25. OodamaJanuary 27, 2011 at 12:56 PM

    This is badass, so much easier that having to google search torrents for each and every song I want from pandora.

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  26. teampl4yerJanuary 30, 2011 at 2:33 PM

    you sir are a genius!

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  27. Master ManiacalJanuary 30, 2011 at 3:19 PM

    This is awesome, thanks for sharing ^-^

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  28. BearchillerJanuary 30, 2011 at 4:21 PM

    Really helpful; thanks a lot!

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  29. DanielMJanuary 30, 2011 at 8:04 PM

    I thought you meant open pandora as in the handheld console.

    neat blog.

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  30. FightheskyJanuary 31, 2011 at 12:04 PM

    Awesome tips, mate! Subscribing and looking forward to future hacks :D Check my blog out if you'd like!

    Fighthesky.blogspot.com

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  31. AuatarchJanuary 31, 2011 at 6:27 PM

    I will definitely be making use of this, thank you so much.

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  32. syxivFebruary 1, 2011 at 12:27 PM

    This is awesome, following for more of these in the future.

    crustycollective.blogspot.com

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  33. Matthew CFebruary 1, 2011 at 7:29 PM

    Oh noes, free music! Delicious, sir.

    Keep up the great work- I enjoy reading your posts!

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  34. !sense!February 1, 2011 at 10:25 PM

    you am god?
    lol
    but really nice shit.
    Check my blog sometime as I will check yours daily.

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  35. AlphalphaFebruary 2, 2011 at 1:33 PM

    Nice!!

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  36. Chock Full of BSFebruary 3, 2011 at 2:07 PM

    Oh snap. Doing this asap.

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