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- Add your Tube Archivist connection details in the addon popup
- Add a download button to the popup for YouTube links
- Add a subscribe button to subscribe to channels and playlists
- Sync your cookies for yt-dlp.
![popup screenshot](assets/screenshot.png?raw=true "Tube Archivist Companion Popup")
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## Permissions
- **Access your data for www.youtube.com**: Needed for the addon to know your current page on YouTube to send the link to Tube Archivist.
- **Storage**: Needed to store your connection details, needed to store your last visited YouTube link within the browser.
- **Cookie**: Needed to read your cookies for youtube.com to access restricted videos.
## Setup
- **URL**: This is where your Tube Archivist instance is located. Can be a host name or a IP address, use a full URL with protocol, e.g. *http://*.
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A green checkmark will appear next to the *Save* button if your connection is working.
## Options
- **Sync YouTube cookies**: Send your cookies to TubeArchivist to use for yt-dlp requests.
## Test this extension
Use the correct manifest file for your browser. Either rename the browser specific file to `manifest.json` before loading the addon or symlink it to the correct location, e.g. `ln -s manifest-firefox.json manifest.json`.
- Firefox