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This is a Firefox addon written in JavaScript which provides an easy way to keep track of URLs to playlists and subtitles used by Apple HLS, Adobe HDS, MPEG-DASH, and Microsoft Smooth Streaming streams.

Also assembles readymade youtube-dl (recommended)/FFmpeg/Streamlink/hlsdl commands which (should) include all of the necessary cookies and headers.

More details and screenshots available in the AMO listing.

• Javascript,
• WebExtensions API, including:
  • Notifications,
  • Clipboard,
  • Storage,
  • Tabs.

Being able to easily find direct URLs to streams on the Internet. I wrote this initially for my own use - I was fed up with hunting for URLs in the Network Monitor and manually adding all the necessary headers and cookies.

As of writing this document, the addon has been downloaded over 200,000 times, with over 9,000 average daily users. The usage statistics are publicly available, in case anyone is interested.

Upon being notified that a stream has been detected (as in the screenshot above), click the toolbar button, and then click on the appropriate filename to copy the URL in its desired form. Use the addon's options page to customize your experience.

• The Firefox Addons (AMO) listing.
• The GitHub releases page.

• Clean up the URL detection routine. The filename/extension part is particularly messy (it works, though),
• Rethink the UX,
• Implement per-tab lists,
• Sort detected URLs by video/audio quality? This would require downloading and parsing every detected manifest. Might not be feasible,
• Search through the HTML for URLs?

This should go without saying, but I am not responsible for and do not condone this addon being used for any nefarious purposes. Copyrighted content is probably DRM-ed anyway.