How can I read Chrome Cache files?

Question

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Answer 1

EDIT: The below answer no longer works see here

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Google Chrome cache file format description.

Cache files list, see URLs (copy and paste to your browser address bar):

• chrome://cache/
• chrome://view-http-cache/

Cache folder in Linux: $~/.cache/google-chrome/Default/Cache

Let's determine in file GZIP encoding:

$ head f84358af102b1064_0 | hexdump -C | grep --before-context=100 --after-context=5 "1f 8b 08"

Extract Chrome cache file by one line on PHP (without header, CRC32 and ISIZE block):

$ php -r "echo gzinflate(substr(strchr(file_get_contents('f84358af102b1064_0'), \"\x1f\x8b\x08\"), 10,
-8));"