# MeTube Sender A Chrome extension that sends YouTube videos to a self-hosted MeTube in one right-click, then plays the download in an overlay on top of YouTube. Source: https://steevepommier.com/projects/metube-sender/ Section: Projects Published: 2026-09-29 Updated: 2026-10-09 Tags: browser extension, self-hosted, home lab, video, i18n, JavaScript, Manifest V3, Media Chrome --- [MeTube](https://github.com/alexta69/metube) is a self-hosted web front end for yt-dlp. Getting a video into it meant copying a link, opening another tab and pasting it. MeTube Sender puts it one right-click away — and, the other way round, brings what MeTube downloaded back onto the YouTube page. ## Sending - **Right-click** a link, a page, a text selection or the player: one **MeTube** entry with three blocks — video qualities, audio formats and subtitle files — laid out flat, as submenus, or as one-click defaults with the rest under *More…*. The settings page draws the resulting menu live. - **The popup** lists every YouTube video, short and playlist linked from the current page, embedded players included; tick some, or send the page. - **Clean links**: YouTube URLs are cut down to `v`, `list` and `t`, so tracking parameters never reach MeTube; links from other sites go through unchanged, since MeTube takes anything yt-dlp does. ## Watching On a video page, **Alt+Shift+M** opens an overlay that looks the video up in MeTube's history: already downloaded, it plays from where YouTube was; queued, it shows the progress and starts when the file lands; missing, it adds it. Once watched, it offers to delete the file from the server — nothing goes without a click. A `