# freestream

> Allows HLS streaming. Scrapes HLS links on a page and allows them to be opened in builtin player. Helps to bypass restrictive features on live streaming platforms.

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/freestream](https://chrome-stats.com/d/freestream)

## Overview

- **ID:** `freestream`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Nimish
- **Category:** photos-music-videos
- **Daily users:** 259
- **Weekly downloads:** 12
- **Rating:** 4.78 / 5 (9 ratings)
- **Version:** 1.0
- **Last updated:** 2020-12-17
- **First published:** 2020-12-16
- **Size:** 100 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-15
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/freestream/)
- **Website:** [https://github.com/nimishagarwal76/freestream](https://github.com/nimishagarwal76/freestream)

## Description

Freestream is a simple browser extension that searches a webpage for m3u8 links and opens them in a built-in HLS player, bypassing restrictive features on live streaming platforms.

## Rankings

- #7,219 — Overall
- #47 — stream
- #52 — free vpn
- #61 — scraping
- #156 — platform
- #218 — scrape

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `webRequest`
- `webRequestBlocking`
- `*://*/*.m3u8*`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** Moderate risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** Low risk likelihood

### Analysis details

- Allows access to all websites, posing a significant security risk as it can monitor and modify data from any visited site.
- This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/freestream)