{"id":668,"date":"2013-07-26T20:34:08","date_gmt":"2013-07-26T15:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techkunji.com\/?p=668"},"modified":"2014-09-19T23:33:14","modified_gmt":"2014-09-19T18:03:14","slug":"get-back-stop-download-feature-on-youtube-videos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.viralmediatoday.com\/2013\/07\/26\/get-back-stop-download-feature-on-youtube-videos","title":{"rendered":"Get Back \u2018Stop Download\u2019 feature on YouTube Videos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">Some days back YouTube removed the \u201cStop Download\u201d feature from their player. They also removed video pre-buffering. In this article I will help you to get the \u201cStop Download\u201d feature using <span id=\"4f7fce16-09f7-4661-ba28-9e543a1e3d0f\"><span id=\"8823b0c7-c7d1-4e20-a17f-a43cb9e05ea5\"><span id=\"1ebec6d2-de7b-478e-8042-282a64f83003\">bookmarklet<\/span><\/span><\/span>\/<span id=\"62a9498c-a412-44a2-94a3-ef61ef9f4a5b\"><span id=\"07d204c9-54ec-4a17-a69f-a334aa304723\"><span id=\"01c94ee1-c236-4915-a1a8-a311b4a20892\">userscript<\/span><\/span><\/span>.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>How to Stop YouTube Video from Downloading<\/strong><span id=\"4945a804-87aa-4a9a-84b5-9ee08768142c\"><span id=\"f46b8ad2-fafe-4d0b-bfb3-78893a0fbe0d\"><span id=\"2fb89c15-3725-4298-a0fa-55c3179f3621\"> &#8211;<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n<h4><em><strong>Method 1: Bookmarklet<\/strong><\/em><\/h4>\n<p>This is the easiest method and will work on all browsers. (Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer, Apple Safari, etc).\u00a0To use it, drag and drop the above <span id=\"2e25100a-7e27-4ad9-8ee8-d7a79bd9fda7\"><span id=\"b1fd00aa-32b9-4aff-b29f-11c2a55b5573\"><span id=\"3ac75fec-a61b-4789-96e8-e18c72001c56\">bookmarklet<\/span><\/span><\/span> to your Bookmarks toolbar. To stop a YouTube video while watching, just click on the <span id=\"e7d63d60-03c0-4f2e-98bc-aa4449b37270\"><span id=\"0d5da0b2-53c2-494d-bcfd-1079113d3d90\"><span id=\"0879c287-0e46-4d28-95e9-5009ccce695a\">bookmarklet<\/span><\/span><\/span> and the video will stop downloading.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a class=\"bookmarklet\" onclick=\"javascript:alert('Drag this link to your bookmarks toolbar');return false;\" href='javascript:(function(){var%20p;document.getElementById(\"movie_player-flash\")?p=document.getElementById(\"movie_player-flash\"):null;document.getElementById(\"movie_player\")?p=document.getElementById(\"movie_player\"):null;p=document.getElementById(\"movie_player\");p.pauseVideo();p.stopVideo();})();'>Stop YouTube Video<\/a> (bookmarklet)<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 438px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thelacunablog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Stop-Youtube-Video-Download.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"438\" height=\"336\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image courtesy: www.thelacunablog.com<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h4><em><strong>Method 2: Userscript<\/strong><\/em><\/h4>\n<p><span id=\"6c7a7f1e-3216-4268-94c9-0595c589bdf5\" class=\"GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark\"><span id=\"431e77a3-8aa7-4f94-a1a5-0701c96e9345\" class=\"GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark\"><span id=\"07c5aade-4dac-422a-a512-fce78c3bf76d\" class=\"GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark\">Userscript<\/span><\/span><\/span> will give you a button below your YouTube player to stop the download. <span id=\"bafaaeec-5dd4-4818-a7d4-a1b8ac5b5678\" class=\"GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark\"><span id=\"87a885fd-12bf-4467-9965-3471dcb7b8ed\" class=\"GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark\"><span id=\"00afff39-50bd-404b-af97-8ca3cd3bf29a\" class=\"GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark\">Userscript download link<\/span><\/span><\/span> is provided below.<\/p>\n<p>Download<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.viralmediatoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Userscript-Stop-Youtube-Video.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-677 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/cms.viralmediatoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Userscript-Stop-Youtube-Video.jpg\" alt=\"Stop Youtube Video Downloading\" width=\"639\" height=\"394\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cms.viralmediatoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Userscript-Stop-Youtube-Video.jpg 639w, https:\/\/cms.viralmediatoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Userscript-Stop-Youtube-Video-300x184.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 639px) 100vw, 639px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Steps to install Userscript<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In Firefox, you will have to install\u00a0the Greasemonkey add-on. After that, open the <span id=\"10283d70-d993-4380-92b3-00461092ca4c\" class=\"GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark\"><span id=\"a0fdda38-8c73-444e-a6c4-668362e9dba7\" class=\"GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark\"><span id=\"e322d707-caf2-43e2-81e6-20cd3c03c35a\" class=\"GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark\">userscript<\/span><\/span><\/span> page provided above and click on the install button.<\/li>\n<li>In Chrome, you need to download the Userscript on your computer by right-clicking the Install icon and select Save link as. Then go to <span id=\"a6e10e95-dd67-4a53-b136-408c2afaa9a2\" class=\"GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark\"><span id=\"145d16b3-a594-4d27-b42f-793d6f529771\" class=\"GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark\"><span id=\"e35e0ecf-e85b-4890-a095-34e246daeece\" class=\"GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark\">Tools &gt; Extensions<\/span><\/span><\/span>, drag the downloaded script into the Extensions page and click install.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Don&#8217;t forget to share this with your friends.<\/p>\n<p>Via<em>\u00a0<\/em>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thelacunablog.com\/stop-download-youtube-videos.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">thelacunablog.com<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some days back YouTube removed the \u201cStop Download\u201d feature from their player. They also removed video pre-buffering. In this article I will help you to get the \u201cStop Download\u201d feature using bookmarklet\/userscript. How to Stop YouTube Video from Downloading &#8211; Method 1: Bookmarklet This is the easiest method and will work on all browsers. (Google [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":907,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[60,62,61,59],"class_list":["post-668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tips-tricks","tag-google-chrome","tag-internet-explorer","tag-mozilla","tag-youtube"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.viralmediatoday.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.viralmediatoday.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.viralmediatoday.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.viralmediatoday.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.viralmediatoday.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cms.viralmediatoday.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.viralmediatoday.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.viralmediatoday.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.viralmediatoday.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.viralmediatoday.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}