Does net.downloadhelper.coapp.app support socks proxy?

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Your question

Hello. I have successfully used this extension in the past, but this is the first time I'm trying to use it with a proxy and it doesn't appear to be working. Is there a way to use this with a proxy? Perhaps I can change an environment variable? Perhaps something like

export http_proxy="socks5://127.0.0.1:1080"

Addon & CoApp version and details

version: 9.1.0.43
target: google
channel: stable
lang: en-US
coapp: {"found":true,"new_version":false,"path":"/Applications/net.downloadhelper.coapp.app/Contents/MacOS/vdhcoapp","version":"2.0.19"}
license: {"unset":true}
platform: arm64 mac
UA: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/126.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
{
"never_show_no_incognito_msg_again": true,
"view_options": {
"all_tabs": false,
"hide_downloaded": false,
"low_quality": false,
"show_button_clean": true,
"show_button_clean_all": false,
"show_button_convert_local": false,
"sort_by_status": true,
"sort_reverse": false
},
"open_count_store": 12,
"successfull_dl": 3,
"dable_attempts": {
"__serializer_tag": "map",
"__serializer_value": [
{
"__serializer_tag": "array",
"__serializer_value": [
{
"__serializer_tag": "primitive",
"__serializer_value": "www.tiktok.com"
},
{
"__serializer_tag": "array",
"__serializer_value": [
{
"__serializer_tag": "primitive",
"__serializer_value": 1
},
{
"__serializer_tag": "primitive",
"__serializer_value": 1
}
]
}
]
},
{
"__serializer_tag": "array",
"__serializer_value": [
{
"__serializer_tag": "primitive",
"__serializer_value": "nitter.poast.org"
},
{
"__serializer_tag": "array",
"__serializer_value": [
{
"__serializer_tag": "primitive",
"__serializer_value": 1
},
{
"__serializer_tag": "primitive",
"__serializer_value": 1
}
]
}
]
},
{
"__serializer_tag": "array",
"__serializer_value": [
{
"__serializer_tag": "primitive",
"__serializer_value": "x.com"
},
{
"__serializer_tag": "array",
"__serializer_value": [
{
"__serializer_tag": "primitive",
"__serializer_value": 1
},
{
"__serializer_tag": "primitive",
"__serializer_value": 1
}
]
}
]
},
{
"__serializer_tag": "array",
"__serializer_value": [
{
"__serializer_tag": "primitive",
"__serializer_value": "www.newsflare.com"
},
{
"__serializer_tag": "array",
"__serializer_value": [
{
"__serializer_tag": "primitive",
"__serializer_value": 2
},
{
"__serializer_tag": "primitive",
"__serializer_value": 0
}
]
}
]
}
]
},
"dable_attempts_last": 1725726196184,
"download_history": {
"__serializer_tag": "map",
"__serializer_value": []
}
}

[ballo]

For anyone else struggling, I found a work-around of sorts. I found the failing ffmpeg process using ps ax| grep -i down
which provided a url I could just dump into yt-dlp (after setting the http_proxy environment variable).

[ballo]

I did some more experimentation and investigation trying to get this extension to work and found out that ffmpeg doesn't support socks proxies. Pretty lame.