free browser extension
tapeshelf Video Downloader finds the video on the page, shows every quality with its size and saves one MP4 with sound to your computer. No account, no ads, no converter sites.
Not in the browser stores yet: you install it from here, and it takes a minute.How to install
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Plain files, HLS and DASH streams, on any page. The popup puts the likeliest video first, and the rest wait under “More on this page”. Each quality comes with its size, exact or “≈”, and the one you prefer is set once in the settings.
On this page
Sites often send the picture and the sound separately. The extension joins them into one MP4 right in the browser. Files of any size go straight into Downloads/tapeshelf, and a download carries on after the browser is closed or crashes.
Take the sound alone, as it is (M4A or Opus) or as MP3. Subtitles are saved as an .srt file beside the video.
A live HLS stream is recorded from the start of what it keeps, or from now, until you press Stop. Some players build the video themselves and leave no file: “Record what plays” records it as it plays and saves an MP4.
Open the extension at the side of the browser, and it stays there while you scroll a feed or move from page to page.
{title}, {site}, {quality}, {date}, {author}On the sites it knows, the extension puts its own button beside the site's Like and Share. It opens a menu with every quality and its size, the sound alone, MP3 and “Save to My shelf”, and the file gets the site's own title and description. The button can be turned off in the settings.
On every other site, open the extension from the toolbar or the side panel: it finds the video there too.
Sites with the button
Streams, 4K, MP3, subtitles and live streams are what other downloaders charge for. Here they cost nothing, and there's no daily cap.
No program to install and no converter site that gets your link. The video goes from the site to your computer.
Picture and sound come as one MP4, not a silent video and a separate sound file.
Hours-long videos go straight to your disk, and a download survives a browser restart.
The extension sends nothing anywhere. Its code is open under the AGPL-3.0.
Receipt
tapeshelf Video Downloader
Total€0
No ads · no account · no limits
The extension isn't in the browser stores yet, so it comes from this page. It takes about a minute.
Download the archive and unpack it into a folder you'll keep: the browser loads the extension from there.
Open chrome://extensions. In Edge it's edge://extensions, in Opera opera://extensions, in Yandex Browser browser://extensions.
Turn on Developer mode.
Press Load unpacked and choose the folder.
Updates. When a new version is out, the extension says so in a line in its popup. Unpack the new archive over the same folder and press ⟳ on tapeshelf in the extensions page.
A version from Firefox Add-ons is coming. Until then the file isn't signed by Mozilla, so Firefox takes it in one of two ways.
Open about:config and set xpinstall.signatures.required to false.
Download the file and open it in Firefox, for example by dragging it into the window, then confirm.
Download the file.
Open about:debugging and choose This Firefox.
Press Load Temporary Add-on… and choose the file. It stays until Firefox restarts.
if you want more
“Save to My shelf” sends a video to your tapeshelf shelf instead of your disk. It's private there until you share it: watch it on your phone, or send a link that runs out when you say.
Downloading never needs an account. Saving to the shelf does, and it's free.
Yes. Downloading has no limits and no paid version: streams, 4K, MP3, subtitles and live streams included. There are no ads. Only saving to your tapeshelf shelf follows the limits of your plan there.
No. Everything that downloads to your computer works without one. You need a free tapeshelf account only to save videos to your shelf.
It finds video on almost any page: plain files and HLS or DASH streams. On VK, TikTok, Douyin, Bilibili, RedNote, Instagram, X, Reddit, YouTube, Twitch, Kick, Rutube, Dailymotion, Vimeo, Facebook and Telegram Web it also asks the site itself for the title, the description and every quality, and puts its Download button on the page.
Yes, the version from this page does, in every quality and with sound.
Not video protected with DRM: the extension leaves it alone. And save only what you have the right to keep: your own videos, ones you bought, ones you may keep for yourself.
Into the tapeshelf folder in your Downloads. The folder and the file names can be changed in the settings.
Once a day the extension checks for a new version and, when there is one, says so in its popup. Download the new archive, unpack it over the same folder and press ⟳ on tapeshelf in chrome://extensions. In Firefox, open the new file the same way as the first one.
Not yet, it's coming. Until then, take the file from this page: Firefox Developer Edition, Nightly and ESR keep it installed, and ordinary Firefox keeps it until it restarts.
Its code is open under the AGPL-3.0, so anyone can check what it does. It sends nothing anywhere: no ads, no telemetry, and the history of downloads stays in your browser. It asks for access to all sites because it has to see which video a page loads and download it with your session on that site.
Free and open source, with no ads and no telemetry, in 20 languages.