Browser extension panel

The extension works on any open tab: you watch a video on the site as usual, and the panel on the right shows what it found and downloads it as mp4.

Where: Chrome and Safari · Plan: Free and Pro

Open the panel

• Chrome — click the Video Tracker icon on the toolbar: the panel Found on this page opens in the browser's side panel on the right, for the current tab.

• Safari — press the Video Tracker button on the toolbar: the panel opens on the right side of the page; ✕ closes it. Before the first use, turn the extension on in Safari › Settings › Extensions and allow it on all websites — see Install in Safari.

The panel follows the tab: switch to another tab and it shows what was found there. The number on the extension icon is how many videos were found on the current tab.

The page was open before the extension

The extension catches what the player loads. If the page was opened before the extension started, the panel says so: reload the page and play the video again.

Sections of the panel

• Found — videos on the current tab with quality, audio, subtitles and Download; the number next to it is how many were found. See Finding videos on a page and Downloading a video.
• Downloads — all the extension's jobs: progress, pause, retry, errors, where the file is; the number is the active jobs. See Downloads list.
• Bookmarks — pages you want to return to: Add this page saves the current tab, a click opens a bookmark in a new tab, Delete comes with Undo. This is Video Tracker's own list — the browser's bookmarks are not touched. With Pro the list is the same on all your devices; see Bookmarks.
• Account — sign-in, your plan and the cloud; see Account. The plan badge under the tabs opens it too.
• ⚙ Settings — opens the extension's settings page; see Settings.

YouTube and similar sites

The extension cannot run yt-dlp, which YouTube and similar sites need.

• In Chrome on such a site the panel says “Video Tracker does not download videos from this site.”

• In Safari the panel offers Open in the app — “Needs Video Tracker for Mac”: the Mac app opens the same page in its built-in browser with your logins and finds the video itself. The same button appears on a video the extension cannot download.

Which apps download such sites — see YouTube and other sites.

The Safari extension comes with the Mac app

There is no separate app “for Safari”: the extension is installed together with Video Tracker for Mac from the site and updates with it. In the Mac app's settings, the Safari extension section shows whether it is on, the steps, and a button that opens Safari's extension settings. If you turn the extension on or off in Safari, the section shows it when you come back to the app.

Where the finished file goes

• Chrome — into the browser's downloads, to the folder “Browser downloads › Video Tracker”. You can change or clear the subfolder with Subfolder in Downloads in the settings; the downloads folder itself is set in Chrome's settings.

• Safari — into the Downloads folder: Safari does not let an extension save files, so the Video Tracker Mac app writes them there. Files of any size are fine.

Open and the folder button in Downloads show the file; see Where the finished file is.