YTGrab

YTGrab — a YouTube toolbar companion. Read transcripts, save thumbnails, share to youtubegrab.com, and grab media.

YTGrab is your YouTube toolbar companion. Open the popup on any YouTube tab and you have one-click access to the things you actually need: the video's transcript, its thumbnails, a clean share-to-site button, your recent videos, and — when you need an offline copy — a format picker that saves through the browser's own download manager. What's in the toolbar popup • Transcript — pick a language and download as .srt (timed) or .txt (plain). Powered by YouTube's public captions. • Thumbnails — grab the cover image at four resolutions in one click. • Open on web — opens youtubegrab.com/watch?v=<id> in a new tab for the full toolbox (advanced merging, Live, age-gated handling, transcript translation). • Recent videos — your last 5 sends show as quick-jump chips with titles; expandable to 20. • Save options — when you want an offline copy: pick a bucket (Standard / Audio / Video / Advanced-merged), pick a quality, save. Files are written through your browser's own download manager — no third-party servers handle the bytes after the URL is resolved. Right-click shortcut • Right-click any YouTube link anywhere on the web → "Send to YTGrab" opens it on youtubegrab.com. Keyboard shortcut • Alt+Shift+G (Cmd+Shift+G on macOS) opens the popup for the active tab. Customize at chrome://extensions/shortcuts. What this extension does NOT do • Does NOT inject any UI into youtube.com. • Does NOT request host permissions on youtube.com — it never reads or modifies YouTube pages. • Does NOT read your browsing history. • Does NOT track you. No third-party analytics SDK loads at runtime. Permissions, plainly • "tabs" — read the active tab's URL so the popup knows which video you're on. • "storage" — remember your recent videos locally (chrome.storage.local; never leaves your browser). • "contextMenus" — show the "Send to YTGrab" item when you right-click a YouTube link. • "downloads" — write the file the user picks (transcript, thumbnail, or media) through the browser's own download manager. • Host access to youtubegrab.com — the popup calls the YTGrab API there to fetch transcripts, thumbnails, format lists, and to resolve a stream URL when the user picks a save option. About youtubegrab.com youtubegrab.com is the full web app the extension talks to. The extension is a thin client: it does not bundle media-handling code, it does not communicate with youtube.com or googlevideo.com directly, and it does not run any remote scripts at runtime. Support and privacy Privacy policy: https://youtubegrab.com/privacy Contact: privacy@youtubegrab.com