# Simple yt-dlp

> A one-click toolbar button (& context menus) to easily download video/audio from ~1,829 sites incl. Reddit and YouTube Reason: I'm not techy enough to type in the Command Prompt/Terminal - and other things won't download Reddit videos for me

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/simple-yt-dlp](https://chrome-stats.com/d/simple-yt-dlp)

## Overview

- **ID:** `simple-yt-dlp`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Removed
- **Publisher:** Disco🕺Dave
- **Daily users:** 5
- **Weekly downloads:** 6
- **Version:** 1.3.3
- **Last updated:** 2025-01-28
- **First published:** 2025-01-27
- **Size:** 51 KB
- **Data as of:** 2025-02-15
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/simple-yt-dlp/)

## Description

<strong>What does it do?</strong>

It's a little toolbar button.
<strong>One click</strong> and you're downloading a video from Reddit, YouTube ... or at least 1800 more sites.

Could not be simpler to use.
Automatically merges best quality video and audio into MP4.
Or, if you like, download only the audio as best quality MP3.

You can also right-click a link to download video (or audio) without visiting the link.

That's about it.

<strong>Why use it?</strong>

Succeeds at downloading videos where some other, more complicated methods fail.
Doing all the hard work in the background is <code>yt-dlp</code>, which is astronomically more powerful than 🚀Simple yt-dlp - but I don't need all that extra stuff.
All you get from 🚀Simple yt-dlp is a <em>reliable</em> and <strong>ridiculously easy</strong> way to download Reddit and YouTube videos.

Or you can just download the audio.
And not just from Reddit and YouTube, but from 1800 officially supported sites and a lot more.

That's why 🚀Simple yt-dlp was made: to be quick and easy to use and to succeed where others fail.

<strong>Built-in features</strong>

<ul>    <li>Automatically removes ads, intros and filler segments using SponsorBlock data (if available).</li>    <li>Embeds metadata, chapters and thumbnails in downloaded files.</li></ul>
<strong>First use</strong>

One-time, simple setup and configuration using a local Python server.

<strong>Icons</strong>
<ul>    <li><a href="https://prod.outgoing.prod.webservices.mozgcp.net/v1/dc1dfca23d54729a7df6ca7e23fd65c6f81b64093e11925063a78fbf7e80878e/https%3A//www.flaticon.com/free-icons/space-shuttle" title="space shuttle icons" rel="nofollow">Space shuttle icons created by Freepik - Flaticon</a></li>    <li><a href="https://prod.outgoing.prod.webservices.mozgcp.net/v1/4823579d791115b5b0690ee88d8b9aa05e1bb949d701ef6f852e509eb646940c/https%3A//www.flaticon.com/free-icons/launch" title="launch icons" rel="nofollow">Launch icons created by Freepik - Flaticon</a></li></ul>

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `contextMenus`
- `http://localhost:8080/*`
- `activeTab`
- `notifications`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** Low risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** High risk likelihood

### Analysis details

- Enables sending notifications which can be spammed but have minimal direct security impact.
- This extension is not longer available in the store

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/simple-yt-dlp)