Download button: save video and audio directly
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Assessment
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100
- Issue type
- Feature
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Activity status
- Quiet
- Tech stack
- javascript
Research direction
Start by examining how the extension adds controls to YouTube video pages, especially around the like/subscribe area and Shorts. Compare the available external-service approaches, including cobalt.tools and Pytube, and determine how quality and codec choices would be represented. Done means a working download button supporting video, audio-only, the listed qualities and codecs, and Shorts.
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Description
Feature Request: Download Button for Videos and Audio
Description
Add a download button to YouTube video pages that lets users download videos (MP4) or audio (MP3) in various qualities directly from the page.
Why
This is the single most common feature across ALL YouTube userscripts. Dozens of scripts exist just for this:
- YouTube Downloader (GreasyFork, 1.28M installs — most popular YT script ever)
- YouTube Direct Downloader (GreasyFork, 447K installs)
- YouTube Tools All-in-one (GreasyFork, 192K installs)
- YouTube Ultimate Downloader (GreasyFork)
- And dozens more...
ImprovedTube has NO download functionality at all.
Preferred behavior
- Download button next to the like/subscribe area
- Quality selection: 4K, 1440p, 1080p, 720p, audio only
- Codec selection: h264, vp9, av1
- Shorts support
- Download via external service (cobalt.tools, Pytube, or similar)
- Dominant language
- JavaScript
- Stars
- 4.6k
- Forks
- 996
- Avg merge
- 2d 15h
- Merged PRs (30d)
- 7
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
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