Automatic capture
Click any download and Hydra takes it over — multi-connection, resumable, with your
cookies carried along. Which file types are captured is set in
Hydra → Options → File Types.
Hold Alt while clicking to let the browser keep one download.
Right-click & text selection
Right-click any link, image, or video → Download with Hydra. Or simply
highlight links on a page — a floating Download with Hydra
button appears. Several links at once open Hydra's batch download box.
Media sniffing
When a page plays direct video or audio files, a counter appears on the Hydra toolbar
icon. Open the popup to grab any of them.
HLS & DASH streams
Segmented video shows up under Streams in the popup as one entry,
not a thousand segments — with the quality, bitrate and estimated size the manifest
declares. Pick a variant and Hydra fetches it. DRM-protected streams are listed as
unsupported and are never touched.