# meowcateatrat/elephant

Free Download Manager Add-On. Provides support for downloading videos from various sites.

Repository: https://github.com/meowcateatrat/elephant
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/elephant
Language: Python
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2026-08-20T11:31:19+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 98/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 98, release rhythm 98, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 1608, "days_push": 13, "days_rel": 13, "gap_med": 14.0, "n_releases_24m": 33}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1058, forks 99 (observed 2026-08-28T04:03:25.035554+00:00)

## What it is
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
- artifact type: plugin
- maturity: active
- function: video-processing, web-scraping, file-upload
- domain: media, developer-tools
- platform: windows, python, cross-platform
- tags: free-download-manager, yt-dlp, video-downloader, addon, browser-cookies, video, macos, linux, deno

## Member repositories
- meowcateatrat/elephant (main) score 98

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:25.035554+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T06:57:51.506562+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/meowcateatrat/elephant (fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:25.035554+00:00, sha 702166d2cda2)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.