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My Firefox add-on to download music and videos just got a big update! (lemmy.ml)
submitted 2 weeks ago by helloyanis@furries.club to c/firefox@lemmy.ml
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My Firefox add-on to download music and videos just got a big update!

Media Downloader Unleashed, a browser extension I made that allows you to download streams, videos and music files, recently reached a pretty big update! Maybe you can try it if you think it would be useful :

- Downloads media from thousands of sites
- Works on any platform, PC or Android, without needing to install a separate app
- Completely free, and open source.
- No data tracking!

You can get it at https://addons.mozilla.org/addon/media-downloader-unleashed

Try it, and tell me if you like it!

Here is the source code : https://github.com/helloyanis/media-downloader-unleashed

@firefox @opensource @firefox_addons

#firefox #opensource #web #dev #foss #downloads #mediadownloaderunleashed

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[–] DarkPassenger@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Added. Next step is to figure out where to download music to add to my new Amazfit watch

[–] helloyanis@furries.club 2 points 2 weeks ago

@DarkPassenger Awesome! Well, if the website you are downloading from does not work, tell me and I'll try to figure it out!

[–] XLE@piefed.social 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

My Lemmy client absolutely slaughtered your text formatting - the original post is much more legible on Mastodon thankfully

Links for the curious

[–] AllYourSmurf@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The OP looks fine on Voyager. Which Lemmy client are you using?

[–] XLE@piefed.social 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Also Voyager... Weird. Must be a Mastodon to PieFed thing

[–] AllYourSmurf@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Weird. Here’s mine.

[–] XLE@piefed.social 1 points 2 weeks ago

It must be a bug in the software that's doing the federating - PieFed vs Lemmy. That's kind of surprising, but good to know.

[–] Hominine@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Another open source win, thanks!

[–] pkjqpg1h@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Thank you.

I tested on Android with five different websites. It's great at detecting videos, and the UI is solid.

But, there's an issue: after a download finishes, if I'm on another tab, the download dialog flashes and disappears.

[–] helloyanis@furries.club 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

@pkjqpg1h Yes, indeed that's an issue with the Firefox app, there's nothing I can do on the side of the extension with this, as it acts as if you cancelled the download.

However, a workaround is, load the website and the add-on in a non-private window and make sure "Media cache" is enabled in the add-on settungs.

Once the download is over and the popup to download flashes and disappears, start downloading again (with the same quality as before if asked).

The download should only take a few seconds as the add-on caches the video/audio data so it can do faster downloads.

[–] pkjqpg1h@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 weeks ago

thanks I'll try