CocoCut

What Is CocoCut?

CocoCut is a video downloader that supports HLS-based video streams and direct video links.

According to WHOIS records, the domain was registered in December 2019. The Internet Archive has records going back to 2020, so CocoCut appears to have launched that year.

Interestingly, early versions of CocoCut included a link to a YouTube video downloader in the footer, suggesting the team was also running a separate YouTube downloader at some point.

That service has since been shut down.

How to Use CocoCut

Install the CocoCut browser extension, then navigate to a page with a video. The extension icon will display the number of videos it has detected on the page.

Click the extension icon and a popup appears listing all detected videos. Click the download icon next to the one you want to save.

You'll then be redirected to the CocoCut page, where the conversion begins. Once it's complete, you can download the video.

How CocoCut Downloads Videos

When CocoCut downloads a video, it generates a URL in this format:

blob:chrome-extension://ekhbcipncbkfpkaianbjbcbmfehjflpf/xxx

This suggests that both the conversion and the download link generation happen inside the extension itself.

The likely flow is: the extension captures the index file or direct link of the selected video on the page, passes it to CocoCut's internal processing, and performs the conversion within the extension — which also sidesteps CORS errors neatly.

The CocoCut web page itself appears to serve mainly as a progress display and a trigger for the download.

The overall experience is similar to FetchV, but with one key difference: FetchV performs its conversion on the web page itself, whereas CocoCut handles everything inside the extension.

Things to Know About CocoCut

If you've used several video downloaders, you may notice that CocoCut feels relatively slow at converting. This appears to be intentional — CocoCut offers a paid plan and seems to throttle conversion speed for free users.

To subscribe, you'll need to create a CocoCut account first.

Pricing varies by subscription length:

The paid plan reportedly speeds up conversion and removes limits on the number and length of videos you can download.

That said, in practice the free tier allowed downloading videos longer than five minutes without issue. A dialog did appear indicating that free users couldn't download that day — but dismissing it and proceeding worked fine.

It's unclear whether the restrictions were never properly implemented, or were quietly removed at some point. Either way, CocoCut doesn't appear to be actively maintained.