Free · open source · zero tracking
vdown-helper finds the videos, streams, subtitles and files a page plays — even inside embedded players — puts the best one on top, and saves it on your computer. Streams are joined without re-encoding. Nothing leaves your browser.
Chrome 116 or newer · free · nothing to sign up for
Chrome Web Store listing coming soon. Until then: download, unzip, load. 30 seconds.
Today a video arrives in hundreds of pieces, hides inside a player embedded from another site, or is assembled in memory while it plays. vdown-helper reads the page the way the player does — and hands you one clean file.
01 · Detect
Direct files, HLS and DASH streams, subtitles, images and documents, from every frame of the page. Each card leads with what matters — quality, kind, size, length — and the best match comes first, with its Download one click away.
02 · Decode
Pick the quality, the audio track and the format, or keep the original. Segments are joined as they are: the picture is never re-encoded. Audio conversion (MP3, M4A, AAC, WAV) runs on FFmpeg inside your browser.
03 · Download
Every stage is shown as it happens — downloading, joining, done — with speed and time left. Pause and resume, retry what failed, then open the file or its folder straight from the popup.
04 · Record
Live HLS and DASH streams, camera, screen-share and call streams are recorded as they play. Stop whenever you like and what was recorded is saved; limits on length and size stop it for you.
05 · Respect
No account, no analytics, nothing sent anywhere. Site access is asked for only when you click, and can be revoked in one place. Streams protected by DRM are marked as such and never touched.
MP4, WebM, MKV, MOV, MP3, M4A, FLAC, Opus and more — saved as they are.
Master and media playlists, separate audio, fMP4 and TS, AES-128 encryption whose key the site delivers openly.
Static and live manifests, separate audio and video, ClearKey.
When there is no file at all, it captures what the player plays — fast or in real time.
Record live HLS and DASH as they go, with gaps counted, never hidden.
MediaStreams on the page are recorded to WebM (or MP4 where Chrome can).
VTT, SRT, TTML and subtitle tracks inside streams.
Filter by size, pick what you want, download one by one or as a ZIP.
Your media. Your control.
Install it and use it. There is nothing to register for.
The extension never sends the pages you visit, or anything else, to any server.
Access to a site is asked for when you press a button, one site or all of them, and revoked in one place.
Detection, joining and conversion happen inside your browser. Even this page loads nothing from anyone else.
Chrome Web Store listing coming soon. Until then: download, unzip, load. 30 seconds.
Get the latest package from GitHub.
Download for Chrome — freeExtract it into a folder you will keep.
Open chrome://extensions, switch on Developer mode, choose “Load unpacked” and pick the folder.
chrome://extensions
For very large files and long streams: downloads, merges and conversions run outside the browser, keep going after Chrome closes, and the extension can hand jobs over to it. It is optional: the extension works on its own.
The installers are not signed yet: Windows SmartScreen and macOS ask before the first start (on macOS, right-click the app and choose Open).
They include ffmpeg, which is GPL software; its licence and source references are in the app's licenses folder.
Yes, completely, and the source code is open (MIT licence). There is no paid tier and no account.
It saves what a page plays in your browser, in the formats listed above. It does not bypass DRM, logins or paywalls, and some players simply never expose a stream. When something cannot be saved, the card tells you why.
Reading a page you are on needs nothing. Fetching a stream from another server, or looking into a player embedded from another site, needs that site's permission — asked when you press the button, revocable in Settings.
No. Video is never re-encoded: segments are joined as they are. Only audio is converted, and only if you ask for MP3, M4A, AAC or WAV.
Into Chrome's own Downloads folder, through Chrome's download manager. You can pick a sub-folder or be asked every time.
No. No analytics, no telemetry, no remote code. The only requests it makes are the ones that fetch the media you asked for.
Google Chrome 116 or newer.
Open the popup. Press Download. That is it.
Download for Chrome — freeChrome 116 or newer · free · nothing to sign up for