The MediaStrip browser extension puts a download button right on the media you're already looking at. Instead of copying a URL into a downloader site, you click once and the video or image is sent straight to your local MediaStrip downloads — at native resolution, with no re-encoding and no upload to anyone's server.
An on-page download button for any site
As you browse, the extension detects playable video and media elements and pins a small download pill to each one. It works across 1000+ sources — the same breadth as the MediaStrip engine — so a single browser extension covers YouTube, Vimeo, social media, lecture portals, and the long tail of sites a generic downloader misses.
How the extension works
- Detect: the content script finds media on the page and attaches a catcher button.
- Resolve: on click, MediaStrip's server-side extractor picks the best available stream (up to 4K where the source has it) and merges the best audio via ffmpeg.
- Deliver: the file lands in your MediaStrip downloads folder — stream-copied, so there is zero generational quality loss.
Local-first and private by design
MediaStrip is built local-first: processing happens on your own machine and GPU, and your media never leaves your device. That is faster than cloud downloaders and keeps your footage private — a deliberate contrast to browser-based downloader sites that proxy everything through a third-party server.
Supported media and formats
Video: MP4, MOV, AVI, MKV, WebM. Images: JPG, PNG, WebP, TIFF. Downloaded media keeps its native container and quality. Paired with the MediaStrip app you can also remove watermarks frame-by-frame with GPU-accelerated LaMa AI inpainting after you grab a clip.
Install the MediaStrip extension
The extension ships in the project repository and loads as an unpacked extension in any
Chromium browser (Chrome, Brave, Edge): open your browser's Extensions page, enable Developer
Mode, and "Load unpacked" pointing at the extension/ folder. A Chrome Web Store
listing is on the way. Source and instructions live on
GitHub.