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MediaGo vs VideoCacheView: catalog facts
MediaGoVideoCacheView
Free

The project describes MediaGo as free and provides a free MIT-licensed release.

Free

Freeware from NirSoft, free to use and redistribute unmodified.

Windows, macOS, Linux, Web, Self-hosted, Browser extension Windows
  • Detects video resources on web pages and supports over a thousand sites through yt-dlp.
  • Converts downloaded videos to other formats and includes a video player.
  • Scans several browsers' caches in one pass
  • Copies cached videos out for later playback
  • The project says it is for learning and research purposes and prohibits commercial or illegal use.
  • Cannot merge YouTube's separate video and audio streams
  • Firefox must be closed before its cache is written to disk
Downloadable app, Self-hosted, Browser extension Downloadable app
Open source Closed source
License: MIT License: Freeware
Not stated if an account is needed No account needed
Not stated if it works offline Works offline

Checked October 4, 2026

Checked October 8, 2026

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