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Josephus Paye II
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Drag to download: drag links from the browser unto the desktop to download

As a part of my goal to create something weekly in 2020, I made Drag to download in Week 3.

Drag to download is a browser extension that allows you to drag a link from the browser unto your desktop to download.

Animated GIF demonstrating Drag to download

It uses a little-known drag-and-drop feature in Chrome as described in this article. Unfortunately this feature works only in Chrome (tested on Windows).

Get it

You can try the extension by installing from the Chrome webstore.

View the source

The extension is open source and available on GitHub at https://github.com/JosephusPaye/drag-to-download. See the README for details on the design and how it works.

Contributions, questions, or feedback welcome!

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