About this extension

🚀Simple is a lightweight extension that lets you use a toolbar button (or context menu) to easily download videos (or audio only) from Reddit, YouTube, X, SoundCloud, TED and many more sites
For video downloads, best quality video (max 1080p) and best quality audio are merged into MKV
Audio-only downloads are saved as MP3 with best quality audio
Click the icon and choose audio or video; it's very convenient
Right-click a link to download a 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/
Download complete YouTube playlists
It also works on a ton of other sites. Try it here, for example: https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/premier-league/liverpool-players-celebrate-watch-video-winning-premier-league-title-epl-a9586381.html. 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
Doing all the hard work in the background is yt-dlp
Designed to be quick and easy to use and to succeed where some others fail

🚀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)
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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.

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.

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