Is it possible to access the internal elements of an embedded Flash object via a scripting language?
No, not really. Not like you can examine the DOM of a webpage. You can download and decompile the swf, but you may or may not be able to get all the info you want out.
I would like to be able to access all the components of say a Flash image gallery on someone else's site. I want to be able to find the images, image coordinates, action script code, audio files, video, etc. I do not want to manipulate these elements, I just want to view them and their related information. 
Is this possible via scripting languages like Ruby, Python or Javascript?