Install in Chrome

The Video Tracker extension from the Chrome Web Store: install, pin the icon, open the side panel. Also for Edge, Opera and Yandex Browser.

The Video Tracker extension works right in your browser: it finds the video on the open tab and saves it to the browser's downloads. Everything it needs is already inside. On Windows and Linux the extension is the way to use Video Tracker — a Windows app is on the way.

Install

The extension works in Chrome, Yandex Browser, Edge and Opera. There is no Firefox extension yet.

Open Video Tracker in the Chrome Web Store (on the site — Install the extension).

Press Add to Chrome and confirm. The browser asks once for access to sites — that is how the extension sees the videos on the pages you open.

Pin the icon so it is always at hand: press the puzzle-piece Extensions button next to the address bar and pin Video Tracker.

The side panel

Where: Chrome and Safari · Plan: Free and Pro

Press the Video Tracker icon — the Found on this page panel opens on the right for the current tab.

The panel follows the tab: switch to another tab and it shows what was found there.
The icon shows the number of videos found on the tab, for example “3”.
The panel has two sections: Found (the current tab) and Downloads (all the extension's downloads, with the number of active ones).
Settings in the panel opens the extension's settings.
If the page was opened before the extension was installed, the panel asks you to reload it — otherwise the player's requests are missed.

Where files go

Finished files go to the browser's downloads, into the Video Tracker subfolder: Browser downloads › Video Tracker. The subfolder is changed in the extension's settings (Subfolder in Downloads); the downloads folder itself is set in the browser's settings.

Downloads run while the browser is open. If you close it in the middle, the download is Paused next time, what was downloaded is kept, and Continue downloads the rest. When a download finishes or fails, you get a notification.

Logins to sites

The extension works inside your browser profile: courses and cinemas you are signed in to in the browser are downloaded with your login. Nothing else to set up.

YouTube and similar sites

The extension from the Chrome Web Store doesn't download from YouTube and similar sites — the store doesn't allow it. On such a site the panel says Video Tracker does not download videos from this site. Everything else — HLS and DASH streams, files, players on pages — works as usual.

On Android, the version from the site downloads from these sites. On a Mac, the app from the site downloads from them too.

Updates

The browser updates the extension by itself. When Video Tracker learns about a new version, Update asks the Chrome Web Store for it and restarts the extension once no downloads are running. Update Video Tracker automatically in the settings does this without asking. More: Updates.