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Video Download Plugin (slrpnk.net)
submitted 10 months ago by to c/firefox@lemmy.ml
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I would like a simple way to download videos from the internet. For example, from YouTube, but also from social networks or, ideally, streams. Specific add-ons for YouTube exist, but I'm looking for something more general.

There are probably hundreds of Firefox plugins that promise to do this. However, many of them don't seem to be very good. Which plugin do you use for this?

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[+] 13 points 10 months ago (4 children)
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  • [–] 8 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    If you use Android, I recommend Seal. It uses yt-dlp internally, nicely packaged into an Android app.

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  • [–] 8 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Unfortunately Seal has not had a release in over a year, since October 2024. It may still work but due to a recent (November 2025) change in yt-dlp an external JavaScript runtime is now required for full YouTube support.

    There is YTDLnis as an alternative. It's on F-Droid but for some reason the page for it 404's (it's clearly there in my client though).

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    • [–] 9 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    Video DownloadHelper sounds like it would meet your needs. It's even recommended by Firefox.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago

    it used to work great, but (kind of) recently there was an update that made it take WAY longer and added a QR code to a corner that takes up like 30% of the screen. thr qr code sends you to their website, which then says you can remove the QR code by paying them

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    • [–] 8 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    There's no need to involve a third party server for this. yt-dlp + Open With extension can do this all locally.

    Don't be fooled by the name, yt-dlp supports many more sites than just YouTube

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 child)

    Sorry to bother you with this, but do you know of a simple tutorial on how to get from a GitHub link to something I can work with? I'm still pretty new to Linux and have no idea about Git, compiling, dependencies, and all that stuff.

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    • [–] 2 points 10 months ago

    Cat Catch is the only one ive found to work properly. It looks a bit sketchy and isn't very intuitive but it does work.

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    [–] 1 point 10 months ago

    Xtreme download manager + it's browser extension.

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