VidSwipe Lite

Self-contained video grabber. Finds media on page, shows thumbnails, saves to Downloads; right-click any video to grab directly

Save the video you're actually looking at, in one click. VidSwipe Lite watches a page's network traffic and finds the real media files behind the player — including ones no "download" button is offered for. Open the popup and every clip it found is listed with a thumbnail decoded from the file itself, so you can see exactly what you're about to save before you save it. Everything happens locally in your browser. No account, no sign-up, no uploading your links to someone else's server. WHAT IT DOES • Finds media automatically — watches the page for .mp4, .webm, .m3u8 and other media as it loads, so it works on players that hide their source behind blob:/MediaSource. • Real thumbnails — each result previews an actual frame from that exact file, not a guess scraped from the page. What you see is what gets saved. • One-click save — straight to your Downloads folder. • Right-click any video — "Download with VidSwipe" appears on videos even when the player wraps them in overlay controls, which is where most right-click grabbers quietly fail to show up at all. • Facebook & Instagram clips keep their audio — these sites deliver video and sound as two separate files. VidSwipe Lite detects both halves, matches them to the same clip, and combines them into a single file with audio. No re-encoding, no quality loss, no extra software. • Full HLS streams — for .m3u8 streams it fetches every segment, decrypts AES-128 where needed, and stitches them into one playable file. • No duplicate clutter — when a site offers the same clip at several qualities, only the best one is listed. • Optional desktop companion (Coming Soon)— if the VidSwipe desktop app is running, a "Send to app" button hands the page over to it for full yt-dlp coverage. HONEST LIMITATIONS • YouTube streams are ciphered and cannot be saved by any extension running in the browser. The popup tells you so rather than failing silently. Use the desktop app. • Files from Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and X are fragmented MP4. They play fine in Chrome, VLC, and most players, but Apple's QuickTime Player has never supported that format. Use VLC, or the desktop app, if you need a QuickTime-compatible file. • This tool is for downloading videos you have the right to download. Please respect copyright and each site's terms of service. PERMISSIONS, AND WHY • webRequest / host access — to see the media URLs a page requests. This is the core of how the extension finds video at all. Nothing is logged or transmitted. • downloads — to save the file you clicked. • storage — remembers what was found on a tab, so the list survives reopening the popup. • contextMenus / tabs / scripting / activeTab — the right-click item, and reading the current page for media the network watcher missed. No analytics. No tracking. No remote server. WHAT'S NEW Version 2.2.0 • Fixed: Facebook and Instagram videos saved without any sound. These sites serve DASH, where the video file genuinely contains no audio track and the sound is a separate file — so saving the video alone produced a silent clip. VidSwipe Lite now identifies both halves, pairs them by the asset id they share, and merges them into one file with audio. Verified to produce output identical to a full ffmpeg merge. • Fixed: right-clicking a Facebook or Instagram video could grab the audio-only stream and save a file with no picture, depending on which request happened to arrive last. It now always resolves to the video and brings the matching audio with it. • Added: each result is now labelled "video + audio", "audio only", or "video only — no audio found yet", so a silent download can never come as a surprise. • Changed: the audio half of a split stream is no longer offered as its own download — its video entry already includes it. • Fixed: a clip's audio track could be mistaken for a duplicate of its video track and hidden from the list, because the two have identical durations by definition. • Progress is now shown while a combined download is fetched and assembled.