Description
You see a video on a page and want to keep it. Right-click offers no "save as", the online rippers are a wall of ads and popups, and half the sites they cannot parse anyway.
Video DownloadHelper lives in the browser: when a page has video or audio, the toolbar icon lights up, you click it, pick a quality and the download starts. It recognises over a thousand sites, including ones that stream in HLS or DASH segments, and stitches the segments into one complete file.
Nearly twenty years old, available for Firefox, Chrome and Edge, with over twenty million users. The free tier covers everyday use and collects no browsing data; Premium removes download limits and speeds up processing.
Automatic detection: the icon activates whenever a page contains downloadable video or audio — no hunting for URLs.
Formats and quality: the panel lists every format and resolution the site offers; pick one.
Segmented stream merging: HLS, DASH and MPD streams are joined into a single video file automatically.
Audio only: grab just the audio track, or copy the media URL.
Three browsers: installs from the Firefox, Chrome and Edge extension stores.
Video DownloadHelper lives in the browser: when a page has video or audio, the toolbar icon lights up, you click it, pick a quality and the download starts. It recognises over a thousand sites, including ones that stream in HLS or DASH segments, and stitches the segments into one complete file.
Nearly twenty years old, available for Firefox, Chrome and Edge, with over twenty million users. The free tier covers everyday use and collects no browsing data; Premium removes download limits and speeds up processing.
Features
Automatic detection: the icon activates whenever a page contains downloadable video or audio — no hunting for URLs.
Formats and quality: the panel lists every format and resolution the site offers; pick one.
Segmented stream merging: HLS, DASH and MPD streams are joined into a single video file automatically.
Audio only: grab just the audio track, or copy the media URL.
Three browsers: installs from the Firefox, Chrome and Edge extension stores.
