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Anything Download
Anything Download

Chrome extension

An optional companion for Chrome: analyze the page you are on and open it in Anything Download. What it does, the permissions it uses, and what it never collects.

The Anything Download Chrome extension is an optional companion to this website. It analyzes the page you are on with the same public API the website uses, then hands you over to the website to process anything. It is not a separate downloader: every address still goes through the server's checks, and the website works fully without it.

What it does

  • Popup: shows the page you are on and, when you choose Analyze this page, lists the public images, videos, audio and PDFs the server found.
  • Right-click menu: Analyze this page, Find images, Find videos, Find audio, Find PDFs, and Open in Anything Download.
  • Honest results: when the server reports that content is private, needs a login, is DRM protected, is region restricted, is unsupported, or that you are being rate limited, the extension shows exactly that. It never shows a download button for something the server did not allow.

Permissions it uses

  • activeTab: read the address of the current tab, only after you click the extension or use its menu, and only for that tab.
  • contextMenus: add the Anything Download entries to the right-click menu.
  • storage: remember your theme and server choice in this browser, and pass a menu request to the popup for a few seconds.
  • Access to https://staging.anythingdownload.in: send the page address to the Anything Download API. If you run your own server, the extension asks for access to that one address only.

It does not request access to all websites, your tabs list, history, cookies, downloads, or the ability to read or change pages. It contains no remote code.

What it sends

The address of the page you are on, and only when you choose an action. The request carries no cookies or other credentials.

What it never collects

  • Browsing history, page content, or form data.
  • Cookies, passwords, session tokens or account details.
  • Analytics, advertising identifiers, or usage tracking.

What it will not do

Like the website, it only works with publicly accessible content you are authorized to use. It does not bypass logins, paywalls, DRM, CAPTCHAs, region restrictions or any other access control, and it cannot reach private or local network addresses; the server refuses them.

Installing

The extension is not yet listed on the Chrome Web Store. Until it is, developers can load it from the source repository: open chrome://extensions, enable Developer mode, choose Load unpacked, and select apps/extension/src.