# YouTube Grabber

> Capture YouTube videos and audio in multiple formats.

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/youtube-grabber](https://chrome-stats.com/d/youtube-grabber)

## Overview

- **ID:** `youtube-grabber`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Lawrence
- **Category:** photos-music-videos
- **Daily users:** 38
- **Weekly downloads:** 1
- **Version:** 0.9.3
- **Last updated:** 2024-07-23
- **First published:** 2024-07-22
- **Size:** 156 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-09
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/youtube-grabber/)

## Description

YouTube Grabber captures YouTube videos and audio in various formats. It supports optional native client installation and FFmpeg for combining high-quality audio and video streams.

## Rankings

- #18,336 — Overall

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `activeTab`
- `storage`
- `nativeMessaging`
- `downloads`
- `notifications`
- `*://www.youtube.com/*`
- `*://m.youtube.com/*`
- `*://*.googlevideo.com/*`

### Content script matches

- `www.youtube.com`
- `m.youtube.com`

## Safety

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

### Analysis details

- Request access to the following domains: youtube.com, googlevideo.com
- 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/youtube-grabber)