Chrome Extension

This project is a simple exercise to build a chrome extension to download videos from youtube.

project-setup:

Run-server-locally:

1. you need to have node-js installed locally
2. Run git clone to clone the repository
3. cd into the repository
4. Run npm install, yarn add
5. Run the server by running node index.js into the terminal

Upload extension to chrome:

1. open chrome://extensions in the chrome browser
2. set developer mode on
3. click load unpacked and load the src directory of this repository
4. After doing so, pin the extensionn to appear in the bar of extensions
5. Open any youtube video and click on extension icon
6. fill up the required details and click Download
7. Video will be downloaded to YoutubeDownloader folder in default downloads directory

Notes

• This is the first attempt of doing this, I will surely be updating it and improving
• I used a local server to help run the extension, and I have plans to change this
• If you have any suggestions/feedback feel free to contact me, I am very open to that
• This is just a learning project :)