Finding videos on a page
Open a page, start the video — Video Tracker shows everything the player loaded in “Found on this page”.
Video Tracker doesn't need a link to the video file. You open the page with the video, the site's player starts, and the app catches the streams the player requests: HLS, DASH and plain video files, including players embedded from other sites.
How to find a video
Where: Mac, Android, Chrome, Safari, and the cabinet on the site · Plan: Free and Pro
Open the page with the video: in the app's built-in browser, or in your browser with the extension.
Start the video in the site's player — a few seconds of playback is enough.
Open Found on this page: what the player loaded appears there by itself.
Where Found on this page is:
- Mac: the panel on the right of the page (the Found button in the toolbar shows and hides it).
- Android: the bottom menu item (see below).
- Chrome: the Found section of the extension's side panel. If the page was opened before the extension started, reload it — otherwise the player's requests are missed.
- Safari: the Found section of the extension's panel on the page.
- Website: in the cabinet you paste the page link and the server looks for the video itself — this is part of Pro, see Cloud and Pro.
Sites that disguise their playlists (no .m3u8 in the address, an odd file type) and one-time links that work only
once are handled too: the app recognises the stream by its content and keeps it when it is caught, so you don't need
to do anything special.
What you see
- One video with qualities and audio. A series episode is one card with its title from the page, a Quality list (the best one is chosen, or the one closest to your default quality) and an Audio list (your preferred language, otherwise the track the site marks as default). More about audio and subtitles — Audio tracks and subtitles.
- A plain file is marked “file” and shows its size.
- Several videos on a page are named after the page: “Episode 1 — video 1”, “Episode 1 — video 2”.
- Trailers are marked “trailer” and listed last, after the main video.
- Subtitles, stream pieces and small preview files are not shown as videos.
DRM-protected videos
Some services protect videos with DRM (copy protection). Such a video is shown with the note DRM-protected — cannot be downloaded and without the Download button. No setting changes this: watch it on the site itself.
Nothing found
If the list is empty, you see No videos on this page yet and a hint. What to do:
- Start the video on the page and let it play for a few seconds — the streams appear by themselves.
- On YouTube and similar sites, press Find with yt-dlp where the app has it — see YouTube and other sites.
- If the site shows the video only after signing in, sign in — see Sites behind a login.
- Still nothing — press Report a problem right there (you need to be signed in to your account): the app sends what it sees on this page to support. See Report a problem.
Another page and “Clear”
When you go to another page, what was found on the previous one is forgotten. Sites that change the address without reloading the page (single-page sites) keep what was found.
Clear empties the list until the player requests something again — handy when a page has collected many streams.
Links from other apps
Where: Android · Plan: Free and Pro
In another app (a messenger, YouTube, a browser) choose Share and pick Video Tracker: the page opens in the app's built-in browser and the videos are found as usual. If you share a text, the first link in it is opened.
- Android: Video Tracker doesn't pose as a browser, so ordinary links still open in your default browser without a choice window. Open with offers Video Tracker only where Android itself shows a list of apps.
The address bar on a phone
Where: Android · Plan: Free and Pro
- Clear on the right empties the field and keeps the keyboard open.
- When you tap the address bar and there is text in the clipboard, Paste the link from the clipboard appears under it: one tap pastes the link and opens the page. If there's no link in the text, you see There is no link in the clipboard. The app reads the clipboard only when you tap.
- When you scroll down, the address bar slides away and the page gets the whole screen. It comes back when you scroll up, tap near the top edge or the page changes.
- The browser remembers the page: go to Downloads or Settings and back — the same page is open at the same place, with your login and history. After a restart the last page opens, not the home page.
“Found” in the bottom menu
Where: Android · Plan: Free and Pro
While you are in the browser, the Browser item of the bottom menu turns into Found with a counter, for example Found (3), or Searching… while yt-dlp reads the page. Tap it to open Found on this page. In Downloads and Settings the item is Browser again and takes you back to the page; a badge shows how much was found.