Extention viedeo download helper

video download helper

net.downloadhelper.coapp-1.6.3-1_amd64.deb

The extention installer creates a folder where to save the downloaded files : /home/ward/dwhelper
this breaks my config of having all download locations in 1 centralized location : /mnt/data/downloads
⇒ delete (or move) that folder and create a symlink :

mv /home/ward/dwhelper   /mnt/data/downloads/dwhelper
ln -s /mnt/data/downloads/dwhelper  /home/ward/dwhelper

[update 2024]
there is (now ?) an install of an external app as well :
video DownloadHelper Companion App 2.0.10 in the folder ~/vdhcoapp-2.0.10/
[ i see no equivalent 1.6.3 folder , so i guess this is new - or the helper code has been split of the exention code ]
” Some operations required by Video DownloadHelper cannot be performed from within the browser.
The add-on relies on an external application “Companion Application” to be called. “

install

Linux x86/64bits tarball package : vdhcoapp-2.0.10-linux-x86_64.tar.bz2
SHA256: 966e67b3d0d836c6b9375ee455785f5b315c24fa7f2367c827529c39f4
portable

Linux tarbz2 installation

# install as a user , not as root ! 
# cd to the fiolder containing the tar file
tar xf vdhcoapp-2.0.10-linux-x86_64.tar.bz2 -C ~ 
~/vdhcoapp-2.0.10/vdhcoapp install

update 2 :
in settings you can now define a download folder , so symlink the folder is no longer required (stil works , so leave it)