How it works
The page is a link checker with the layout of a future downloader. Processing is a separate switch.
You paste a URL. The browser checks that it is an http or https address with a host name. If the field is empty or the text is not an address, you get a short error. If it is an address, you are told that download processing is not connected and that the link was not transmitted.
What is deliberately absent
- No progress spinner that implies a job is running.
- No invented list of MP4 sizes.
- No button that claims a file is ready.
- No call to a download API or to another website’s extractor.
A single project setting, downloadsEnabled, is false. Turning a real integration on later means changing that setting and connecting an API the operator actually runs. The layout does not have to be replaced to do that.