Images Under Cursor

Images Under Cursor

Finds all sorts of images and videos located under the cursor.

What is Images Under Cursor?
'Images Under Cursor' is a highly valuable Chrome extension for users seeking to discover and extract images, GIFs, background images, and videos situated beneath the cursor, even those trapped in the depth of a DOM tree. This tool is ideal for bypassing the restrictions employed by certain webpages to block asset access. Use by right-clicking on any image or video and selecting 'Images under cursor' to view a list of found images that can be opened or saved. Supports shortcuts and works with canvas elements. This extension is open-source and MIT licensed.
Merlin
Stats
Users: 731 ▲ 3
Rating: 4.28 (18)
Version: 3.0.3 (Last updated: 2024-03-30)
Creation date: 2018-03-23
Risk impact: Moderate risk impact
Risk likelihood: Very low risk likelihood
Manifest version: 3
Permissions:
  • contextMenus
  • activeTab
  • clipboardWrite
Size: 50.49K
URLs: Website
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Summary
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Find and extract all images, pictures, GIFs, background images and videos laying under the cursor, whatever their depth or nesting in the DOM tree. This extension also supports extracting the current frame of canvas elements.

This is useful to bypass the HTML, Javascript or CSS tricks some websites use to prevent the user from accessing the page assets — which is plain ridiculous, as there are accessible anyway.

Usage: right-click on any image or video, then select “Images under cursor”: a list of found images will appear, that you can open or save. You can also use the Ctrl+Shift+F keyboard shortcut. The shortcut can be customized in Chrome settings. You can use Escape to close the dialog.

This extension is open-source software licensed under MIT. Visit website link for source.

User reviews
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Pros
  • Saves time when saving images
  • No need to manually dig through the DOM to find images
  • Works well in simple cases
Cons
  • Works very unstable
  • Does not work in many cases
  • Causes Youtube to reload
Most mentioned
  • Saves time
  • Unstable performance
  • Does not work on all websites
  • Useful concept
  • Requested feature to save images with one click
Recent reviews
Worked great. No more manually digging through the DOM to figure out where in the hell Meta developers decided to hide their image at. Thank you so much!
by Andrés Rodríguez Andrés Rodríguez, 2024-02-07

it works very unstable
by artur artur artur artur, 2022-09-18

This extension worked fine on another device, but the name turned grey on a different one and it doesn't work.
by Matthew Silva Matthew Silva, 2021-01-21
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Safety
Risk impact

Images Under Cursor may not be safe to use and it requires some risky permissions. Exercise caution when installing this extension. Review carefully before installing.

Risk likelihood

Images Under Cursor has earned a good reputation and can be trusted.

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