![]() Download Videos with URLĭownie’s core feature is downloading videos from almost any website, including YouTube, Vimeo, Facebook, Instagram, and many others. I’ll share my personal assessments of each of them. Let’s look at each of Downie’s core features. The app works with over 1,200 websites, so you can use it to download any video from virtually any website. It does this by using a link you provide to quickly download the video. Detailed Review of Downieĭownie’s goal is to help you download videos from YouTube, Vimeo, Facebook, Instagram, and other websites to your Mac. Simplifying a complicated process into a single easy step would save me a lot of time. Needless to say, downloading a video from a website like YouTube or Vimeo can be complex.ĭownie’s straightforward interface and ability to download videos from any website by just providing a URL are what drew me to it. I’ve been testing various types of software for over ten years.Īnd in that time, I’ve used various software, browser extensions, and other methods of downloading videos from the Internet. I’m an engineer and learning how stuff works is a passion of mine. On some installations, the toolbar icon will not be visible by default.Hi, I’m Jon, a network, computer, and software enthusiast. When you click on it, you get a list of errors and the list will be empty. That’s perfectly normal – it doesn’t indicate that there are errors, it’s just a button. ![]() When you install the manifest v3 extension, there may be a red button that says “Errors”. You will get a classic open dialog – select the Downie folder that you’ve downloaded and saved in Step 1 and confirm. In the top right corner, enable the Developer mode (see below for a screenshot). You can do this by clicking on this link or typing it out in Chrome and confirming: chrome://extensions Important n ote: Move the folder somewhere on your disk where it can stay as Chrome will not import the code, it will be always using this source code. Once downloaded, unzip the you will get a Downie folder which contains source code of the extension. To do so, open this link: – see the README file at the bottom of this webpage for links for individual Chromium-based browsers. Here are instructions: Step 1ĭownload the extension source code. All Downie’s extensions are open sourced (), so you can download the extension’s source code and load it from the source code. Isn’t there another way around it? Yes, there is, but it’s a bit more complicated. So what to do? Why don’t I just distribute the extension separately? Well, there’s another hiccup – Chrome will not load extensions that are not on the Chrome Store and this can’t be bypassed. All you can find on the Chrome Store now are extensions that include a disclaimer in their description that they do not support YouTube. ![]() Not that I would be lazy or anything, but it got pulled down by Google – as did any YouTube downloading extension. ![]() Unfortunately, the one for Chrome (and Chromium) is missing. If you are using a browser that’s not one of the basic trio (Safari, Firefox, Chrome), then it’s very likely Chromium-based.ĭownie comes with a set of browser extensions that allow you to send links to Downie with a single click. Note: While this article is about Chrome, this applies for any Chromium-based browser as well – Edge, Opera, Brave, etc.
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