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@guitaripod guitaripod released this 21 Jul 09:26
v1.1.0
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YouTube Thumbnail Saver is now Yoink — the same subtle, YouTube-native toolbar on every thumbnail, plus a new one-click video downloader.

New — Download video (yt-dlp)

An optional fifth toolbar button hands the video to a locally installed yt-dlp and downloads it at the quality you choose (up to 4K, or audio-only), best video + audio merged to mp4.

  • Live progress toast — title · percent · size · speed · ETA — with a cancel button and Show in folder on completion.
  • Ask where to save opens a native folder chooser (kdialog / zenity / Finder / Explorer); otherwise it saves to your Downloads folder.
  • Hardened against the browser-environment ffmpeg crash that silently capped downloads at 360p (strips leaked LD_LIBRARY_PATH / PYTHONPATH, pins --ffmpeg-location).
  • Video quality selector in the popup (1080p by default).
  • A built-in setup page with live helper status and steps that adapt to what you already have installed.

The four core actions — save image, copy image, copy image link, open full size — are unchanged and need nothing extra.

Install (unpacked)

  1. Download yoink-1.1.0.zip below and unzip it.
  2. Open chrome://extensions, enable Developer mode, click Load unpacked, and select the yoink/ folder.
  3. (Optional — for video downloads) install yt-dlp + ffmpeg, then run cd yoink/native-host && ./install.sh and fully restart your browser. The extension walks you through it.
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