Save the video you're watching.

Vidzilla is a Chrome extension that finds the video playing on a page and saves it to your computer as a file, at the quality the site sent. Nothing is re-encoded, and there is nothing to sign up for.

Add to Chrome Try it on this page

Chrome 116+ · No account · No tracking

Or paste a link

Have a link to a video file or an .m3u8 stream? Save it here, without installing anything.

MP4 · WEBM · MOV · M4A · MP3 · M3U8 · Runs in your browser

Press play. Vidzilla catches it.

This is the extension's popup, built from the same components. Play the clip, then save it.

harbourcam.example/night-stomp
00:00:00:00

Night stomp over the harbour

Harbour Cam · 2 min 41 s

vidzilla

harbourcam.example

No videos found yet

Start playing the video on this page, then open this again.

  1. 1 Play the clip
  2. 2 Vidzilla lists what it found
  3. 3 Rename it if you like, then save

What it saves

Files, streams, audio and subtitles, in the format the page sends them. Protected video stays protected.

  1. VZ 01 MP4
    WEBM
    MOV     Video files a page loads directly, at full size.
  2. VZ 02 HLS .m3u8 streams, joined from their segments. You pick the quality.
  3. VZ 03 DASH .mpd streams, with the separate audio track put back in.
  4. VZ 04 M4A
    MP3     Just the audio, when that's all you want.
  5. VZ 05 VTT
    SRT     Subtitles, saved next to the video.
  6. VZ 06 LIVE Live streams, recorded from the moment you press save.
  7. VZ 07Never DRM Netflix, Disney+ and other protected video. Vidzilla shows it and leaves it alone.

What happens when you press save

It all happens inside Chrome, with nothing else to install.

  1. 01

    It watches

    While a page plays, Vidzilla reads the requests Chrome is already making and keeps the ones that are video: files, HLS playlists and DASH manifests.

    GET harbour_1080.mp4 · video/mp4 · 148 MB
  2. 02

    It remembers how you got in

    It keeps the cookies, referrer and origin the page sent, so when you save, the site sees the same request it already allowed.

    Headers kept · cookie · referer · origin
  3. 03

    It fetches

    A background worker downloads the file in ranges and picks up where it stopped if the connection drops.

    Range 0–52 MB · dropped · resumed at 52 MB
  4. 04

    It joins

    Streamed pieces are joined in the browser without re-encoding, so the picture is exactly what the site sent.

    214 segments → one MP4 · no re-encode
  5. 05

    It saves

    The file lands in your Downloads folder, named after the page title. Rename it in the popup first if you want.

    Saved · Downloads/Night stomp over the harbour.mp4

Get Vidzilla

Three steps and about a minute, from the Chrome Web Store to your first saved video.

  1. Add it to Chrome

    Open Vidzilla on the Chrome Web Store and click Add to Chrome.

    Add to Chrome

  2. Pin it

    Click the puzzle piece in Chrome's toolbar and pin Vidzilla, so the mark is always in reach.

  3. Play, then click the mark

    Start a video on any page, click the Vidzilla mark, and save what it found.

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