An update on my FOSS downloader extension recommended by Mozilla!I just updated to a new major release of Media Downloader Unleashed!!, my #firefox add-on to download audio and video from sites that got recommended by #mozilla !addons.mozilla.org/addon/mediaMainly, a better media list, more supported sites (even those using a wrong file format!), and some fixes and improvements!Changelog is too long for the character limit so you can read it all here : github.com/helloyanis/media-doIt's just out, so there might still be some bugs, so if you want to try it be sure to leave me any feedback! Thanks! Now for the fun part : Since it got recommended by Mozilla, it appears as a suggestion within the browser, which lead to the amount of users BLOWING UP!! LOOK AT THIS GRAPH IT'S INSANE! THANKS SO MUCH!!!? 🧡🧡I guess it's a great reward for making great work!!@opensource#foss #opensource #devlog #web #webdev #mediadownloaderunleashed

Graph of the add-on's daily users (blue) and downloads (red) over the last year.

Over the last few months the daily users have dramatically increased reaching 42370 today, and the downloads saw a huge spike increasing the daily download count from ~60 before verification to 3070 today.

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[–] 14 points 1 week ago

I was dubious. "What could this possibly do" I thought, "that yt-dlp can't?".

I pointed it at a video on Substack that I've been wanting to watch offline (that platform is just shite) and after a little getting tripped up by the UI... boom. 1hr of video just in my Downloads/ folder.

Thanks. This is pretty great.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    I installed it but I don't see how you start the download of a video

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  • [–] 4 points 1 week ago

    Oh cool thats useful. Downloaded

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago

    This is great. I had been using faststream before but it got removed and it also had problems with sites that used Anubis as (i think) it wasn't using the same browser session and creating a new request, which was blocked.

    https://github.com/Andrews54757/FastStream

    I tried your extension on redlib and while it grabbed the hls video url, it listed too many in the downloader UI. It probably needs a cleanup.

    Thanks!

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  • [–] 1 point 1 week ago

    i just downloaded it, thank you for building this!

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  • [–] -3 points 1 week ago (4 children)

    There is no recommendation from firefox. What is your source for that claim?

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