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video downloadhelper download and convert to destination Video downloadhelper download and convert to destination. Go to the official Video DownloadHelper page on the Chrome Web Store and click the Add to Chrome button. If you are of an adventurous temper, you may want to use some features before before they are made available for everyone. You can install early releases from the Video DownloadHelper development forum. How to verify Video DownloadHelper is working. Go to this page and start the video. You should see in the Firefox browser toolbar an colored 3-balls icon. The fact the icon is colored indicates there are videos to be downloaded. The number in the small green box shows how many variants of the video are available to choose from. Click on the icon to open the main panel. As everywhere else in Chrome, clicking outside the panel will close it. Click the item in the list. A File Save dialog opens to give you an opportunity to change the name of the file and/or the target folder. Confirm and your file will be soon be on your disk. How to use the companion button. Sorry, there is no companion button on the Chrome version. How to download a video quickly. If you want to skip the file saving dialog and save with the default name to the default directory, click on the 3-dots sign at the right of an item, this opens the list of actions. Check the parameter Use this action as default then click Quick Download . The file will start downloading immediately. Next time you open the VDH panel, simply clicking the item in the list (not the plus sign), it will use the new default action: Quick Download . If you maintain the SHIFT key pressed when clicking on the video entry in the detection list, the Quick Download action will start without closing the panel. This way you can start several downloads quickly as you don't have to reopen the panel for each request. How to read the number next to the VDH icon. This depends on the value for parameter Icon badge in the VDH settings, section Appearance . By default, it is set to Mixed , which means: if there are errors, they appear in red otherwise if there are pinned entries, they appear in black otherwise if there are running tasks, they appear in blue otherwise if there are media detected in the current tab, they appear in green otherwise if there are media detected in other tabs, they appear in orange otherwise no badge displayed. How to prevent some videos from being detected ? Many times, ads videos pollute the Video DownloadHelper hits list. If you want to make sure videos from a particular web site won't be considered by Video DownloadHelper, click on the . sign at the right of the undesired hit, and pick Add to black list . You can choose the domains for which videos served, or appearing in the page content will be ignored. Alternatively, you can also add manually the domains from the settings: More / Black list : Removing domains from the black list can only be done from those settings. How to define the name of the downloaded videos ? Video DownloadHelper includes a feature called Smart Naming . It allows to rename automatically the video file being downloaded from text within the page that contains the video. Smart names are defined on a per-domain basis. By default, when Smart Naming is enabled, the name of the file is taken from the containing page name. To define a video title from a particular site, go to a page containing a video you would like to download and mouse-select a word in the title. Note that it is better to select a word within the title, not at the begining, not at the end. Right-click and select DownloadHelper smart name . If the previewed name is ok to you, confirm. You can remove smart name definitions from the settings, section More / Smart names . From those settings, you can also disable the smart naming feature as a whole. In this case, the file names will be created from the media URL itself. Note that in future add-on version, it will be possible to disable smart naming on a per-domain basis. How to capture media galleries ? Sorry, this feature is not available on the Chrome version. How to use keyboard shortcuts. Sorry, this feature is not available in the Chrome version. How to use pin/auto-pin ? Normally, a detected video remains displayed in VDH while the window that originated this video is still loaded in the browser. When that window closes (you navigated to another page or close the tab), the video appears as "orphan" in VDH and it is removed from the list after 60 seconds (configurable). If you pin that video entry, it does not expire and remain in VDH until you explicitly remove it. If you check Auto-Pin, once a video has been downloaded, it is automatically pinned in VDH. A usage would be that, with Auto-pin set, you navigate the web and whenever you see a video you like, you request the download then continue browsing. After some time, there is in VDH a number of entries, corresponding to downloaded videos, that you just need to click to start playing locally. How to get Video DownloadHelper in a specific language ? If the add-on user interface appears in English and not in your browser's language, this means Video DownloadHelper does not have (yet) this locale. You can contribute by providing your translation using Babelzilla. Video downloadhelper download and convert to destination. Some good reasons to register your converter: Converted videos won't hold the DownloadHelper QR code (the black and white sign at the top left of converted/aggregated videos) You will be able to convert videos directly to mp3 audio files You will have access to support for the conversion feature No restriction on HLS downloads (otherwise you can download one file every 2 hours) The converter licensing is a one-time fee without date expiration, except for the free support that is available for one year after the date of the purchase. You can purchase a DownloadHelper/ConvertHelper license choosing at your convenience any of the 2 options: Why we do not support PayPal anymore. Back in early 2007, a few months after we started the DownloadHelper project, we wanted to implement a system to permit donations to the project. We looked around to see what solutions were available to process payments and PayPal was there, so we went for it. Over the years, the system has been working but suffered a number of flaws: multiple bugs in the management interface, lack of reactivity from support. Dozens of times, we talked about moving to an alternative solution. But you know, when you have a system with issues but which roughly does the job and on the other side, enough work to occupy 12 hours of your day, you do what is absolutely necessary. So we remained with PayPal. In late October 2014, we received a mail from PayPal saying that "we were in violation of PayPal's Acceptable Use Policy", (not mentionning which point of this policy)", that our account was "limited" and there was no possible appeal to that decision. "Limited" at PayPal means that you cannot receive nor emit any payment, and they keep your money for 6 months. We also discovered that we were not able to contact their support to get details about this decision. We had to use a personal user account to be able to reach someone at PayPal support, and we were told that apparently, DownloadHelper were in violation with some copyright laws and there was no way to know which ones exactly. Maybe the guy at PayPal who took the decision was overbusy or too lazzy to make a proper due diligence to see what service DownloadHelper was actually providing (remember that if DownloadHelper breaks any copyright law, pressing PrintScreen also does, so you'd better remove that key off your keyboard). The point was that the decision was made without asking information nor giving us chance to explain our case. No appeal. If making a wrong decision in a big company is common and happens every day, suspending a partner business without warning nor explanation is highly unprofessional. But somehow, very consistent with PayPal's attitude we could see over the years. Even worse: a couple of weeks after they suspended our business account, they also closed developers personal PayPal accounts, because there were "linked to one or more accounts not respecting PayPal's policy". So now, in many cases, we don't have a way to donate to the web projects we like since they often implement a single way to make payments, over PayPal. Well, we can't blame them, we have made the same mistake for years. So, if you plan to do business online, think twice before considering PayPal. Keep in mind they can close your account without notice nor explanation. And if you still go with PayPal, never, ever, keep a significant amount of money on your account: they will block it when they will close your account. We looked around see what serious payment solutions were available, and Stripe.com appeared as being the way to go. Regarding technical integration, it's like day and night compared to PayPal: easy REST API, bug-free management tools, and the best of all: a true support (and they are even polite too !).

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