Youtube-dl Firefox Addon

• Firefox addon to download youtube videos using youtube-dl

Table of Contents

• What Youtube Dl Firefox Addon does
• Prerequisites
• How to install Youtube Dl Firefox Addon
• How to use this addon
• Donations
• License

What Youtube Dl Firefox Addon does

This is a firefox addon to which downloads youtube videos using youtube-dl.

You can configure youtube-dl to download only audio, or convert into any desired format after installing, or even download full youtube playlists. These options are controlled via youtube-dl's own configuration

Prerequisites

1. Needs youtube-dl installed.
2. Needs python installed.
3. This has only been tested on Ubuntu linux, but should ideally work on all platforms where youtube-dl works. You will need to change the path for the firefox_command_runner.json for other platforms.

How to install Youtube Dl Firefox Addon

1. Clone this repo
2. Install the add on from Firefox Addons Website. Or you can install the addon command_runner-1.0-an+fx-linux.xpi from this repo to firefox by double-clicking.
3. Edit the file firefox_command_runner.json and edit the path to the location of the file ./app/firefox-command-runner.py (i.e., where you cloned this repo to.).
4. Edit the local youtube-dl config to fit your needs or delete it to use youtube-dl's global configuration
5. Copy the file firefox_command_runner.json to the folder /home/<username>/.mozilla/native-messaging-hosts/ (replace <username> wtih your own username. Create the folder if it does not exist).

How to use this addon

1. Go to any youtube video page
2. Press the addon's logo in the toolbar once. (The logo looks like a YouTube icon).
3. The video will be downloaded automatically in the background.
4. After the download is finished, you will get a notification saying the download has finished. For the download locations, format, etc, please see youtube-dl's own configuration

Donations

If you like this project, buy me a cup of coffee! :)

License

This program is Youtube Dl Firefox Addon Copyright (C) 2017 Akhil Kedia

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.