CoApp Installation
Some operations required by Video DownloadHelper cannot be performed from within the browser. In order to be able to still do the job, the add-on relies on our external application that is called transparently. We call it the Companion Application (CoApp).
It it safe? Yes! And if you don't believe us, you can read the code 🙂, it's Open Source.
🚨🚨🚨 If the app is not recognized by the extension, please read the troubleshooting section. 🚨🚨🚨
If you prefer a DMG, you can find them here, please start the app at least once to trigger the registration mechanism (not necessary for Pkg).
All you need to do is run this command in a terminal:
curl -sSLf https://github.com/aclap-dev/vdhcoapp/releases/latest/download/install.sh | bash
This command will download and install (or update) the coapp.
If you prefer to do a manual install:
./vdhcoapp install (not as root) after extracting the binaries (not necessary for .deb).
We also have Linux packages that use the system ffmpeg (regular packages come with a prebuilt ffmpeg). These are for advanced users and are available as "noffmpeg" builds here.
This documentation is about Video DownloadHelper.