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Stream Recorder - HLS & m3u8 Video Downloader

by loadmonkey

v2.2.9 Updated Aug 1, 2025 205KiB
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★ 4.31
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Description

With the Stream Recorder, you can easily save live and archived videos that are delivered in a typical HLS (m3u8) format. Even more, if the video file type is in an mp4 format, you can record videos directly using the unique video capture function. Downloaded audio and video data is converted to mp4 as it is with the same quality without re-encoding. This conversion is done inside the extension, without the use of an external server. Please note that Stream Recorder is not responsible for media content which you download, so we suggest to ensure the copyright and permissions of the media before downloading. https://www.hlsloader.com/
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Reviews (186 cached)

★☆☆☆☆2026-02-19
leonshoh Wang

Too bad

★☆☆☆☆2026-01-15
hakan çelik

There is a problem when recording from tango.me, the recording is over after a while, but the live broadcast continues and does not record more than one live broadcast at the same time, does not receive long-term recordings please help fix these problems, it used to record regularly without any problems, new updates are very problematic started to happen help me

★☆☆☆☆2025-12-13
jack bood

The program isn't working properly. It hardly downloads anything anymore.

★☆☆☆☆2025-11-29
Keria

please new update doesnt work anymore

★☆☆☆☆2025-11-26
Illegal Tendencies

Does absolutly nothing

★☆☆☆☆2025-10-16
Akun1 Kimak

good connection without vpn etc, always like this "Interrupted: network error"

★☆☆☆☆2025-08-31
Indosol Services

Yes from few days it is not working at all. Please fix the issue.

★☆☆☆☆2025-08-18
Sasson Shmuel

many problems saving files. unstable and unreliable. waste of time

★☆☆☆☆2025-05-17
Ferret Techie

Doesn't work

★☆☆☆☆2025-04-06
Tu be (빛나리)

After experiencing slow loading times when clicking on YouTube videos in Chrome, I discovered that disabling the 'Stream Recorder - HLS & m3u8 Video Downloader' extension (version 2.2.2) completely resolved my issue. While this extension claims to help download and save live streaming videos in HLS/m3u8 format, it was significantly affecting my browser's performance. If you're experiencing similar slowdowns when watching YouTube videos, you might want to check if this extension is causing the problem. I recommend only enabling it when you specifically need to use its downloading features, and keeping it disabled during regular browsing for better performance.

★☆☆☆☆2025-03-05
Mick Staines

Not working for any videos, no help file, nothing happens when I select it.

★☆☆☆☆2025-02-01
Lars Aarhus

Just stopped working completely one day. Will do the whole process of downloading a video but the second you press save chrome just throws an error. Don't waste your time.

★☆☆☆☆2025-01-20
Marty Junker

Downloaded it, installed it, it doesn't appear in my top toolbar as an extension.

★☆☆☆☆2025-01-02
Minja Lalovic

Doesn't work anymore.

★☆☆☆☆2024-11-11
Aneson Gib

Have been facing many issues recently, files over the size of 1GB stops downloading on it's own and then it's unable to download the said file no matter what. Earlier it rarely used to happen but since a week it's almost 80% of the time, for which hours of footage just gets lost and is not recoverable. Losing faith in this extension day by day since contacting the support also didn't fix the issue and they refuse to believe it's a bug.

★☆☆☆☆2024-11-04
ram sam

this is not functional at all. Can we please have a button to browse where to save file and record on/off also schedule recording would be very nice.

★☆☆☆☆2024-09-21
CosmiC CitiZen

Not working can't download videos from certain websites

★☆☆☆☆2024-08-16
Sanjit Toor

I got hacked and am pretty sure it was this thing.

★☆☆☆☆2024-08-06
Alec Saum

Doesn't work.

★☆☆☆☆2024-06-23
M. Diaz

Can have high GPU power usage at times. Is there any reason for this? What kind of processing is this doing?

★☆☆☆☆2024-06-11
San Holo

It has been malfunctioning for over a month

★☆☆☆☆2024-05-21
Oscar Gonzalez Diaz

Very poor, worked twice now nothing for the same site. Why have a product that only works some of the time?

★☆☆☆☆2024-05-13
onetootoo threetoofive

Stopped working for twitch.tv

★☆☆☆☆2024-05-05
Nik

Please roll back to 1.3.8. It was perfect. This version is not working well, exported videos are not playing.

★☆☆☆☆2024-05-02
트월킹이답이다

In the previous version, the normal mode did not work at all. But it worked fine after the update, so why did you roll back to the previous version? I hope you do it again with a new version. And when I use capture mode, this message always appears. “The number of fragments in the stream is over 6000. Please immediately save this video and try recording again, as it may not be able to be processed any further.” and "1000000 Hz" I hope you can solve this.

★☆☆☆☆2024-05-02
ulquiorraa a

was working fantastic before this update ruined everything now i cant download anything if theres a chance to revert it back to the pervious version that would be great if not then its game over for me

★☆☆☆☆2024-05-01
DHENIM PEGU

used their penut sized brain jst to ruin the whole extension nice one mods keep it up!

★☆☆☆☆2024-05-01
Mo003akes

whomever decided to update the extension is a schmuck .. now it won't record more than 10 second then stop.

★☆☆☆☆2024-05-01
apple apple

Can extensions stop posting bad translation (machine translation is NOT good) without option to change? I can use English version just fine. (btw, crowd translation usually is NOT good either) (and what's the point to build in machine translation? I can do it myself, to any page, if I want)

★☆☆☆☆2024-05-01
vladimir lekovic

fix pls not working :(

★☆☆☆☆2024-05-01
Rizki Nur Utomo

why do you guys need to update, its already worked great before, now it cannot capture anything on the website i tried to download video

★☆☆☆☆2024-05-01
LC Lin

Capture no start ,cannot download

★☆☆☆☆2024-05-01
Mitch M

Having issues since V2.0.2 to be precise, since this morning. Kindly fix it please.

★☆☆☆☆2024-05-01
Hamza Usman

its not working anymore fix it please

★☆☆☆☆2024-05-01
Ammar

The new update broke the extension. roll back to the previous version (prior to 1/5/2024)

★☆☆☆☆2024-05-01
James Trainor

New version is broken

★☆☆☆☆2024-04-04
Sandun Lakmal Wickramasuriya

I dont even see a single thing to stream for my yt so please add an thing to copy the code then add it to the thingy and stream

★☆☆☆☆2024-03-12
Juan Alberto González

It injects lots of ads on every site you surf to

★☆☆☆☆2024-03-02
marina kudashova

It doesn't work any more on the sites it used to. None of the modes. It was super helpful easy and fast earlier.

★☆☆☆☆2024-01-20
Pavel Shershnev

Stopped working for a few sites I used it for.

★☆☆☆☆2023-12-24
None Files

Hey it was working fine but now it records the live stream but when i save and play the video, the video doesn't work, please fix it i am on chrome

★☆☆☆☆2023-11-18
Jim_lahey024 Cx

locked to 720p

★☆☆☆☆2023-10-14
Cristi M

Not working anymore. Getting this error on many websites: "Faild to fetch TS, HLS-encryption is not supported : abort"

★☆☆☆☆2023-09-18
War Eve

No longer records streams from most major websites. Can no longer bypass DRM. Makes the plugin useless as it now states "The video may be protected by DRM (Digital Rights Management) technologies."

★☆☆☆☆2023-08-22
Showaker

it works fine....for about 1 out of 5 videos/streams....

★☆☆☆☆2023-07-03
Andreas Gewd

used to work, no longer does.

★☆☆☆☆2023-06-26
林世宇

useless

★☆☆☆☆2023-06-04
Gaetano Di Marco

It downloads the video, but cannot save on pc.

★☆☆☆☆2023-05-10
Kevin Nguyen

After the recent Update it just haven't been the same which is sad cause it used to be my favorite extension plz revert it back or update it

★☆☆☆☆2023-04-20
Kyoudai

no longer works.

Permissions (7)

Permissions

declarativeNetRequest Can block or redirect network requests offscreen scripting Can inject scripts into web pages storage Can store data locally in your browser tabs Can see your open tabs and their URLs webNavigation Can monitor navigation events webRequest Can observe and analyze network traffic

Details

Version 2.2.9
Updated Aug 1, 2025
Size 205KiB
First Seen Mar 22, 2026