Frame Grabber: Video Screenshot

Frame Grabber captures the exact frame you are watching and saves it as a real image file, in one keypress. It is not a screen capture. The frame is read directly from the video at its full decoded resolution, so what you get is the clean picture with no player controls, no progress bar, no cursor and no compression from your display. A 1080p video gives you a 1920 by 1080 image. A 4K stream gives you a 4K image. Built for people who screenshot video all day: editors pulling reference frames, researchers citing a moment in a talk, designers collecting stills, students capturing slides from lectures, and anyone who has ever tried to pause at exactly the right instant and crop a screenshot afterwards. WHAT IT DOES A button inside the YouTube player Frame Grabber adds a camera button to the YouTube control bar, right next to the settings gear, drawn and sized like YouTube's own controls with a "Take screenshot" tooltip. One tap and the frame is on your disk. Nothing hovers over the video and nothing covers the picture. Capture with a hotkey Set your own in-page key in Settings. Shift+S by default. There is also a browser-wide shortcut, Alt+Shift+S, that fires even when the page is not focused, plus Alt+Shift+C to send a frame straight to the clipboard without writing a file. The in-page key stays silent while you are typing in a search box or a comment field, so it never fires by accident. Choose your export format PNG for a lossless master, JPG for the smallest file, or WebP in between. A quality slider controls the two lossy formats. Switch format from the toolbar popup without opening Settings. Filenames that already make sense Every capture is named from the video itself using a template you control. The default gives you Video-Title_04m32s_1920x1080.png. Thirteen tokens are available, including title, channel, domain, timestamp, seconds, resolution, width, height, date, time, video id, format and a running counter. Characters that are illegal in filenames are removed automatically and empty tokens collapse cleanly, so nothing ever fails to save. Metadata written inside the image Every capture carries its own provenance in the file itself, not just in the filename. The video title, the author credit, the source link back to the exact second, the timestamp, the resolution and the capture date are written as PNG text chunks, or as EXIF and XMP for JPG and WebP. Right click the file in Windows Explorer and open Properties, and the Title, Authors, Comments, Subject and Tags are all filled in. macOS Finder, Photoshop, Lightroom and ExifTool read the same fields. No copyright field is ever written, because the frame is not the extension’s to claim. Rename before saving, if you want to Leave it off and one tap writes the file straight to disk with the templated name. Turn it on and every capture offers an editable name box, pre-filled from your template, so you can label a frame the moment you take it. A record you can copy The toolbar popup shows the last capture with its title, channel, timestamp and resolution, and copies the whole block to your clipboard for notes or citations. Turn on the optional sidecar and a matching .txt file is written next to every image. A floating button everywhere else Off YouTube, a small camera button sits over the player instead. Show it on hover or keep it always visible, place it in any corner, adjust its height so it clears the player controls, or switch it off entirely and use only the keyboard. It follows the video into fullscreen. Copy and paste Optionally the frame lands on your clipboard at the same time it lands on your disk, ready to paste into an image editor, a design tool, a document or a chat. Works beyond one site Tuned for YouTube, including Shorts and embedded players, where it reads the real video title, channel and video id. A generic mode handles any other site with a standard HTML5 video player, and you can enable it with one toggle. PRIVACY Frame Grabber does not collect anything. There is no analytics, no tracking, no account, no server and no network request of any kind. Every frame is encoded and saved on your own computer. The extension contains no remote code. By default it runs on YouTube only, and access to other sites is an optional permission you grant yourself and can revoke at any time. ONE HONEST LIMITATION Video protected by DRM, such as Netflix, Prime Video and Disney+, cannot be captured. Those services render video through a protected path that returns a blocked or black image to any browser extension, without exception. Frame Grabber detects this and tells you clearly rather than quietly saving a black rectangle. Free, open source, and with no ads.