Steal-a-GIF
A browser tool to export GIFs from locked down platforms
Details
- External ID
- 48541821
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Steal-a-GIF
- Website domain
- github.io
- Launched
- June 15, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 6
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.31420765027322406
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Description
Hi HN! I was super frustrated at apps like tiktok and wechat preventing me from saving or downloading the animated gifs, so I made a little tool to turn a screen recording into a slack-sized emoji. Hope you get some value from this!
Enrichment
- Theme
- social video scrapers and downloaders
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- browser tool to extract gifs from protected platforms
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes This is a single-purpose client-side browser utility that captures screen video using the standard Screen Capture API and converts frames into GIF format via existing JS libraries.
Discussion
No comments on this launch.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 146 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #53 of 147 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 209 days after the earliest competitor.
- YourGIF · ph · 2026-09-24 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- Unduhin · ph · 2026-09-16 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- GifMint · ph · 2026-09-21 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- TikTok Video Downloader · ph · 2026-09-30 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- ClipKoala · ph · 2026-09-19 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- Tiklo · ph · 2026-09-23 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- Gifsy · ph · 2026-09-16 · 4 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- OmniGIF · ph · 2026-09-14 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.44
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