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🎉 My open-source downloader extension is now "Recommended by Mozilla" ! (lemmy.nz)

submitted 3 days ago by helloyanis@furries.club to c/firefox@lemmy.ml

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🎉 My open-source downloader extension is now "Recommended by Mozilla" !

Great news! Mozilla reached out and my free and #opensource #browserextension , "Media Downloader Unleashed!!", to download audio and videos is now listed as recommended by #Mozilla !

It's a great personal achievement! When I started working on it out of frustration that you can't right click and save videos on Android, I never expected it would reach above 13k users and become recommended by Mozilla!! Thanks to everyone who uses it! I hope it will continue to work and improve for the years to come! :blobcatheart:

✨THANK YOU!✨

🧩 The add-on : https://addons.mozilla.org/addon/media-downloader-unleashed?utm%5C_source=fedi-share
💻 Its source code : https://github.com/helloyanis/media-downloader-unleashed
🏆 What " Recommended extension" actually means : https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/recommended-extensions-program

(Note : If you want to try it on Android, it looks like a recent Firefox update broke downloading, use the Nightly or Beta app!)

@mozilla @firefox @opensource

#firefox #web #webdev #dev #foss

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[-] ILikeTraaaains@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Congratulations, I’ll check later on the pc.

[-] Fmstrat@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago

So is this like Video Download Helper but FOSS? If so, I will look to switch.

[-] helloyanis@furries.club 6 points 2 days ago

@Fmstrat Pretty much. Some parts of Video Download Helper are FOSS but it needs an extra app, as for mine it all runs locally within the add-on while needing less permissions and working on Android too!

Sometimes it's a bit more quirky with detection (I haven't tried VDH much) but it's completely free!

[-] Fmstrat@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Great to hear, thanks.

[-] Aeri@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

That's pretty cool I used to have a extension called get them all which was a little bit suspect looking and it stopped working eventually but it was great for pretty much exactly this functionality

[-] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 20 points 3 days ago

Ok, great, thanks! But what has the internet come to, that you need to detect videos.

[-] helloyanis@furries.club 25 points 3 days ago

@MonkderVierte Well, for streams for example they don't store the entire video in a single file which can be good. If you only watch half of the video for example it will not load the second half (so saves on data) and it can be played even if it's not entirely loaded.

But playing these types of files offline is pretty tricky that's why I tried to make the process easier!

[-] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 10 points 2 days ago

Yeah i know, the .m3u8 thing. Was just lamenting the state (or rather state-less-nes) of the internet.

[-] Waehlscheibe@social.tchncs.de 0 points 1 day ago

@helloyanis Thank you for the great addon I have been using for a long time.

@mozilla @opensource

[-] NominatedNemesis@reddthat.com 8 points 2 days ago

Wow, Congratulation!

I searched a media downloader a while ago for android, and this works! Thanks for creating it!

[-] ComradePedro@lemmy.ml 10 points 2 days ago

Looks promising! Will be installing it when I’m at my pc

[-] helloyanis@furries.club 7 points 2 days ago

@ComradePedro Awesome! It works on Android too!

[-] skeesx@piefed.social 4 points 2 days ago

I have been using it for the past few months!
Works like a charm. Keep it up!

[-] helloyanis@furries.club 2 points 2 days ago

@skeesx wow! A long time user! Thanks!!

If you like it, you can (but don't have to) leave a rating! 🦊

[-] skeesx@piefed.social 3 points 2 days ago

I had to do a double take after seeing this post. Like, wait a second...that's the one I'm using!

If you like it, you can (but don't have to) leave a rating! 🦊

Done :)

[-] inari@piefed.zip 4 points 3 days ago

Sadly all of the links are 404'ing from my end at PieFed

[-] glimse@lemmy.world 11 points 3 days ago

...why is piefed changing the links at all?

[-] gary_host_laptop@lemmy.ml 9 points 3 days ago

they're removing the tankies from the links, damn tankies

[-] eldavi@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 days ago

the tankies are in links now? lol

[-] sushiatnight@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 days ago

We're everywhere specter

[-] eldavi@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 days ago

did piefed resurrect tesseract to block tankies in the links now? lol

[-] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Because they are authoritarian dweebs that hate the open web.

[-] eldavi@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 days ago

piefed is going to piefed. lol

[-] Manjushri@piefed.social 2 points 2 days ago

For some reason there's a "?utm_source=fedi-share" tacked on the end. Try this link

[-] Adverse_Reaction@anarchist.nexus 4 points 3 days ago

Congratulations!

[-] gatitaQwQ@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Wow, congratulations on your achievement! I'm not quite sure what your extension refers to :P

[-] tirifto@jam.xwx.moe 4 points 3 days ago

@helloyanis @opensource Gratulon! :gutkato_hura:

[-] helloyanis@furries.club 5 points 3 days ago

@tirifto @opensource Dankon!! 🦊🎉

[-] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

Great work!

[-] helloyanis@furries.club 1 points 3 days ago

@ChicoSuave Thanks!! :blobcatheart:

I hope you enjoy it!

[-] Vincent@feddit.nl 1 points 3 days ago

Nice work!

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