Macget Download Capture

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Send your browser downloads — and YouTube/videos — to Macget, the multi-threaded macOS download manager. Requires the free app.

  Description (the main detail field):
  Macget Capture hands downloads you start in your browser to Macget — a fast, multi-threaded download manager for macOS — so they finish
  faster and live in one place.

  What it does
  • One-click capture: downloads you start in the browser are passed straight to the Macget app, cookies and headers included, so
  logged-in and authenticated downloads just work.
  • Video downloads: on a video page, click the ⬇ Macget button on the player to download it via the Macget app (YouTube, plus HLS/DASH
  streams).
  • Smart filtering: skips popunder / redirect / shortener "jumplink" junk that some sites fire, so only the downloads you actually meant
  get captured.
  • Your rules: a denylist of domains to never capture, a minimum file-size filter, and a one-tap on/off toggle.

  Requires the free Macget app
  This extension is the companion to the Macget desktop app for macOS — it does nothing on its own. Install Macget first (free and open
  source):
  https://github.com/Suryansh-Codes2209/Macget

  Privacy
  Cookies and request headers are sent only to the Macget app running on your own Mac, over Chrome's native messaging — never to any
  external server. Nothing is collected or transmitted off your device.

  Open source: https://github.com/Suryansh-Codes2209/Macget

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  Two fields the submission form will also force you to fill (easy to forget) — here's copy for those too:

  Single purpose (required):
  This extension's single purpose is to hand downloads started in the browser (files and videos) to the Macget desktop download manager
  on macOS.

  Permission justifications (you'll be asked per permission — your set gets reviewed closely, so be specific):
  - downloads — to detect a download starting and cancel the browser's copy once Macget takes it over.
  - cookies — to forward the page's cookies to Macget so logged-in/authenticated downloads succeed.
  - nativeMessaging — to pass the download to the local Macget app.
  - storage — to save your settings (enabled, denylist, filters).
  - webRequest — to detect HLS/DASH video stream URLs on the current page.
  - tabs — to tell a real user-initiated download from a drive-by popunder (jumplink filtering).
  - host permissions (<all_urls>) — downloads and videos can originate on any site, so capture must work everywhere.