# Caption Catcher

> Automatically captures subtitle/caption files from video streaming sites.

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

## Overview

- **ID:** `caption-catcher`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Bingbingaling
- **Category:** download-management,language-support,photos-music-videos
- **Daily users:** 9
- **Weekly downloads:** 1
- **Rating:** 5.00 / 5 (1 ratings)
- **Version:** 1.1
- **Last updated:** 2026-01-09
- **First published:** 2026-01-06
- **Size:** 22 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-06
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/caption-catcher/)

## Description

Easily extract and download closed caption files from your favorite video platform. Supports multiple formats and languages for offline viewing and language learning. Currently doesn't support Youtube or Vimeo.

## Rankings

- #34,967 — Overall
- #145 — captcha

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `webRequest`
- `storage`
- `downloads`
- `<all_urls>`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** High risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** Moderate 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/caption-catcher)