Simple video downloader by Disco🕺Dave

Reason for 🚀Simple

I'm not techy enough to type in the Command Prompt/Terminal - and other things won't download Reddit videos for me. Plus it's an even easier way to download YouTube videos than I was previously using. Works on X too, which some other methods don't. No need to copy and paste links.

First use

One-time, simple setup and configuration using a local Python server. (You do have to install a few things - that will work silently and invisibly in the background.) The instructions will open in a new tab when you add it to Firefox.

What does 🚀Simple do?

It's a little toolbar button (and context menu). Two clicks and you're downloading a video (or audio only) from Reddit, YouTube, X or a load of other sites.

• Very easy to use
• Automatically merges best quality video (max 1080p) and audio into MP4
• Optionally downloads only the audio as best quality MP3
• Right-click a link to download video (or its audio only) without visiting the link
• That works even for Reddit "comments" URLs like this:
  https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/88ll08/this_is_what_happens_when_one_company_owns_dozens/
• It also works on a ton of other sites. Try it here, for example: Watch Liverpool’s players celebrate the moment they won the Premier League title. That's a normal news website, not a video site like YouTube, but there's an embedded video there and 🚀Simple grabs it no problem.

🚀Simple automatically embeds

• Chapters and chapter names if available
• SponsorBlock segments as named chapters, if available, to make it easier to skip sponsor segments, ads, intros and filler
• YouTube subtitles (Press v in VLC media player to view subtitles)
• YouTube synchronised lyrics/transcript in MP3 files if the video has subtitles
• Metadata (including YouTube description)
• Thumbnail

Other than that, it doesn't do anything fancy. There are plenty of extensions and scripts that do, but this works fine for me.

Why use it?

It succeeds at downloading videos where some other, more complicated methods fail.

Doing all the hard work in the background is yt-dlp, which is much more powerful than 🚀Simple but I don't need all that extra stuff.

All you get from 🚀Simple is a reliable and easy way to download Reddit/YouTube/X videos (and plenty more). Or you can just download the audio.

It's designed to be quick and easy to use and to succeed where others fail.

Icons

• Space shuttle icons created by Freepik - Flaticon
• Launch icons created by Freepik - Flaticon

Permissions

🚀Simple needs these three permissions. Here's what they actually mean:

Access your data for sites in localhost:8080 domains

• This only lets it talk to the small server script running on your own computer
• localhost means "this computer" - it can't access any other computers or servers
• :8080 is just the specific port number the server uses
• It can't see any other websites or data

Display notifications to you

• This is just for showing download started/finished messages
• It only shows notifications about downloads you initiated
• You can disable these in your browser settings if you want

Access browser tabs

• This is needed to get the URL of the video you want to download
• It only gets the URL when you click to download
• It can't see any other tab information or browsing history

🚀Simple is "serverless" - it doesn't send any data anywhere except between your browser and your own computer (localhost). I couldn't track you even if I wanted to (I don't), since everything happens locally on your machine.

Love, light and peace.