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meowcateatrat/elephant

Free Download Manager Add-On. Provides support for downloading videos from various sites. observed · 2026-08-28

github.com/meowcateatrat/elephant · Python · MIT (permissive) observed · 2026-08-28

Health v2 · maintenance only

98/100

  • Activity 98
  • Release rhythm 98
  • Longevity 100
How is this computed?

round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.

  • gap_med: 14.0
  • age_days: 1608
  • days_rel: 13
  • days_push: 13
  • n_releases_24m: 33

Full methodology

Adoption not part of the score

1058 stars · 99 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

Elephant is an add-on for Free Download Manager that adds support for downloading videos from various websites, powered by YT-DLP. It is distributed as an .fda package installable through FDM's add-on menu.

Use cases

  • download videos from websites using free download manager
  • add yt-dlp support to fdm
  • save online videos with free download manager
  • extract video streams from sites into fdm downloads
  • use browser cookies to download videos with fdm

When to choose

  • you already use Free Download Manager 6.32+ and want video site support
  • you want a GUI download manager integrated with yt-dlp
  • you need cookie-based authenticated video downloads via Firefox

When to avoid

  • you don't use Free Download Manager - use yt-dlp directly
  • you need a standalone video downloader without FDM
  • you cannot install Python 3.10+ and Deno 2.3+ dependencies

Facets

plugin · maturity active

video-processing web-scraping file-upload media developer-tools windows python cross-platform free-download-manager yt-dlp video-downloader addon browser-cookies video macos linux deno

1 source

Member repositories

RepositoryRoleHealth v2
meowcateatrat/elephantmain98

For agents

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