Using the possibilities of the Internet, we always find time for both work and entertainment. Of course, any user at least once downloaded music, videos and photos from the Internet or social networks. As a rule, we do this with the help of various programs that take up space and do not always perform their functions in full.
There is an alternative option that will satisfy the needs of any user. This is the Savefrom.net helper program , which can be downloaded for free for Windows 7 on this site.
What is this program?
SaveFrom.net Assistant is a program in Russian that allows you to download files / videos from various resources. For example, RapidShare and others, full list which consists of 40 different items. 
Benefits of Savefrom.net
What are the main advantages of this program and why is it good?
- Firstly, with the help of the assistant, you can download any multimedia file from any Internet site.
- Secondly, when you download, you get a file whose quality was not affected during the download. That is, in what capacity you see this file, you download it in this way.
- Thirdly, if you want to download the required file from a file hosting service, you can bypass the system for registering or downloading additional applications and download programs with the program.
- Fourth, you can integrate the SaveFrom.net helper with your browser. The developer of the program provided for work with different browsers.
What browsers does the SaveFrom.net program integrate with?
The program is available for Opera as well as for Mozilla Firefox.
For Chrome (), unfortunately, the utility does not work, because it blocks the installation of utilities that have not been registered in the online application store Google Play. But this issue is also solvable. To do this, you need to install the accompanying application. Tamper Monkey.
Opera and the utility also work well with browsers and perform their functions perfectly.
How to use the SaveFrom.net helper
After installing it, the browser extension will be installed automatically. Verify their work first so that the installation is successful.
Consider the instructions for using the program using an example YouTube resource and VKontakte. It's very easy, you just need to know what to look for.
In order to download a video from YouTube for free, you need to follow these simple steps:
- go to YouTube and find the video you like;
- if the extension was installed correctly, you will see a Download button below the video. We press it.
- A dialog box will open in which you can select the quality of the downloaded video and its format. When you choose, just click on the link.
In the VKontakte resource, everything is also simple. In the "Audio recordings" tab, the "Download" button and "Options" will appear to the right of the name. Using the "Options" button, you can select the quality of the audio recording, size and bit rate.
Savefrom.net helper is a special browser addon that provides the user with direct links to download videos on many popular video hosting sites and social networks (Youtube, Facebook, Vimeo, etc.). After successful installation, the add-on automatically adds a link to download the video file on the supported web resource. In some cases, it displays a whole list of links to different quality versions of the video (HD, 360p, 480p, 720p), as well as to a separate audio track video sequence in MP3 format.
From this article you will learn how to download Savefrom for free and upload it to popular browsers (Opera, Google Chrome, Yandex, for Mozilla Firefox).
installation
Method number 1: offsite
This Savefrom installation option is the most optimal and convenient. Recommended for use by novice Internet users.
So, to connect the Savefrom.net helper to your browser directly from offsite, do the following:
1. In the address bar, type Domain name developer resource - savefrom.net.
2. In the site menu, click the "Install" section.
The service module that installs will automatically detect your browser and provide a link to the net helper distribution just for it.
For example, Savefrom.net for Google Chrome:
Or Savefrom.net for Firefox:
Attention! If for some reason the download did not start for you or the Savefrom extension does not work, contact the site's technical support (see the "Help" section).
Method number 2: in the official application store
Google Chrome
Be careful when looking for an addon in the store for Chrome. At the moment, it has a lot of fake extensions with similar names. Installing them is highly discouraged. They can infect your computer with viruses or reduce the security of your browser and system as a whole.
In the case of Google Chrome, it is best to use Method #1.
Yandex browser
For this web browser, the extension is called Savefrom.net helper.
Follow these instructions to connect it:
1. Press the Menu button (three bars icon).
2. Go to the "Add-ons" section.
3. At the bottom of the tab, click the "Extensions for ..." button.
4. In the store through the search function, find the addon.
5. Go to his page and click "Add ...".
Opera
The connection algorithm is performed in the same way as in Yandex.Browser. To go to the extension site for Opera:
- open the web browser menu;
- hover over the "Extensions" item;
- In the drop-down panel, click "Manage Extensions".
Firefox
1. Go to the store - addons.mozilla.org.
2. In the search box, type - savefrom.
3. Open the “Savefrom.net helper…” page in the search results and add the addon.
How to use?
Let's use the service using Yandex.Browser as an example. But you can use the guide for another browser as well. The sequence of actions for selecting a file and starting the download is almost identical.
1. Open the page with the video you want to download. Additionally, check if this online resource is supported by the addon.
2. Find the "Download" button in the player panel. On Youtube, it is located near the "Subscribe" button.
3. Open the drop-down menu of available files. Choose the best quality option for you. After clicking the mouse, the video will start downloading to your computer.
To open the extension's settings panel, click its icon (down arrow) in the upper right corner of the browser window.
To fine-tune the connection of compatible sites, click the "Settings" item in the list of the panel. And then remove or add “checkmarks” (disable / enable) next to the required sites.
Successful connection of the addon and, of course, replenishment of your home collection of videos with new, interesting "instances"!
The easiest way to fill your own media library with content is to download music and videos from social web resources on the Internet. In addition to the fact that YouTube, Vimeo, Dailymotion and social networks VKontakte, Odnoklassniki offer a much larger selection of content than regular multimedia web resources, social platforms are also a safe source from which you can download files without being afraid to pick up some virus, trojan or spyware.
But, as a rule, social sites are not equipped with functionality for downloading files, because the main idea of such web resources is to keep the audience in their virtual territory. So that people spend as much time as possible on social sites online, so that they constantly consume web services, so that people don’t even think “Why do I live?”. Therefore, on the inside of social sites we can observe the colossal work of the creators in arranging internal players, in presenting the possibilities of creating and managing their own collections, in accessing other users' online media libraries, as well as other conveniences for playing multimedia online. But only not the possibility of removing files for local work with them.
Fortunately, this problem has a third-party solution. The browser can be equipped with a universal tool - an extension of the SaveFrom.net web service - for downloading files from popular social web resources.
In addition to the video hosting and social networks mentioned above, these are also services search engines Yandex, Rambler, Mail.Ru, the famous music site Zaycev.Net, file storages Rapidshare.Com, Filefactory.Com, Sendspace.Com and other popular web resources with multimedia content.
Installing an extension
You can install the SaveFrom.net extension completely free of charge from the extension stores of each individual browser, as well as from the official website of the SaveFrom.net service itself.
In the case of Opera, Yandex.Browser and Mozilla Firefox extension SaveFrom.net is easier to install from the extension stores of these browsers. In the Opera store and Yandex.Browser, which has recently been adapted to work with Opera extensions, we add the SaveFrom.net helper extension.
https://addons.opera.com/en/extensions/details/savefromnet-helper/?display=en
After installation, SaveFrom.net helper will be embedded with a button in the browser panel, calling context menu on which we will get access to the extension settings.
the extension button needs to be added to the browser's quick access menu. We press the main menu, then - "Edit", transfer the SaveFrom.net button from among the additional functions and tools to the quick access menu, then exit the settings.
To get to the extension settings, in the Mozilla Firefox quick access menu near the SaveFrom.net button, select the appropriate item from the drop-down list of options.
And here in the Google store chrome extension SaveFrom.net is no longer present, but it can be embedded in the browser alternative way according to the instructions and links indicated on the developer's website. We go to the installation page of the SaveFrom.net web service extension, go down to the very bottom of the web page and click the installation link for Google versions Chrome 35 and above (of course, if you use a browser with up-to-date updates, and this is most likely the majority of cases).
Install Tampermonkey from the Google Chrome store.
Then we return to the SaveFrom.net installation instructions and click on the link to inject the script into the browser.
On the web page that opens, click the button to install the SaveFrom.net helper extension.
We restart the browser, check that the Tampermonkey extension is enabled, and if so, we can already test the functionality that has appeared for downloading multimedia from web resources supported by SaveFrom.net.
We select the desired format and quality, and the video will immediately begin to be loaded using the native browser downloader.
To download music from Odnoklassniki, click the SaveFrom.net download button that appears when you hover over a specific track.
The SaveFrom.net helper extension offers slightly more options for downloading multimedia content from social network VKontakte than from other social sites. Vkontakte, in addition to individual audio recordings, we can download photo albums from our page or pages of other users, all music recordings on the page at a time, saved playlists in the “.pls” format, which can later be listened to online using any player installed on the computer that supports ".pls" format (Aimp, Winamp, Apple iTunes, etc.).
You can download all the music recordings on the page at a time not only from your page or the pages of other users. In the search bar for Vkontakte audio recordings, we can enter our request, for example, some groups, artists, song titles, and download all the search results found on the social network at a time.
