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I second that on what AddonReviews said. Thank you Dev for all the hard work and support all these while, I'm grateful for this ext. and it has been a great tool.

Keep up the great work there and never give up.

Hopefully, this ext. will come back working again and rise up to the top. The return of the King Add-ons.

To the people ungrateful people who rate 1 star, lighten up!

This add-on has served me perfectly for years now, and I would like to THANK the developer. Recently it has been broken by google/youtube. I made this account specifically to rate this 5 stars and to request that the developer update the add-on so it functions again.

Either way, THANK you for the years of wonderful usage I was able to get from this add-on!

For all you haters out there, instead of rating one star and leaving scathing reviews, how about giving this add-on the FIVE STARS it deserves, and requesting an update???

Rating this add-on 1-star isn't fair to the developer, who is unable to control when youtube/google decides to deliberately break it.

I ask all in the community to please revise your reviews to this end, and give it the 5-stars it deserves for its years of AWESOME service. Thanks!

EDIT: Is there ANYone out there that can restore functionality to this excellent add-on, or offer a work-around? Thanks in advance.

No longer works with youtube. Do not bother using.

HAS NOT WORKED WITH YOUTUBE FOR WEEKS!!! BROKEN AND THIS DEV HASN'T BOTHERED TO FIX IT!!

doesn't work anymore. download failed.

stopped working

Stopped working completely just recently. I'm not aware of any error message except download 'failed'.

Receiving nothing anymore but "batch loading is corrupted" messages.

Like others, this used to work but one day started getting "Batch downloading is interrupted" for no reason, didn't change anything. Tried uninstalling and reinstalling, still doesn't work.

Stop working. Got message like "Batch downloading is corrupted " or something like that.

For those wondering why the Ext won't merge. It is reported that large-size video is very likely to be interrupted while downloading, which will fail in starting any follow-up process (including merging) even such download can be continued to finish. So it is suggested to have another ffmpge-based media converter Ext and do the merging manually, which maybe the season those function in early version be cancelled.

Succeeds where others fail. Works well except for the highest HD videos. Those are streamed by YT as separate audio/video. This fails to capture and then merge those separate HD streams. However, 720P is good enough for my research purposes. Not looking for a theater experience. Addon may present too many confusing options for noobs, tho.

Since around 1 year, the extension doesn't merge the audio file with the video file anymore : finally, we end up with a video without sound.

the only application that allows me to download private videos from you tube