To download any video online: copy the video link, paste it into the box below, choose a quality, and save the MP4. Free, no app, no login — works with many platforms.
Every platform has its own quirks, but the question you face is always the same one: will this particular link work, and if not, why not?
This is the general answer — a test that applies to any site, a triage order for failures, and pointers to the platform-specific guides when you need detail.
Open the link in a private browsing window. Incognito in Chrome, Private in Safari or Firefox. That is it.
A private window is logged out of everything. That is precisely the position any downloader is in: it has no account on the platform, no session, no cookies, and no relationship with the person who posted.
If the video plays in that window, it is publicly reachable and will almost certainly resolve. If you get a login wall, a follow prompt, an age check, or a "not available" message, it is not public — and no tool without your credentials will reach it.
This single check explains the large majority of failures, including nearly all of the ones people assume are bugs. The video plays fine in your normal browser because you are logged in; the tool is not.
Work through these in order rather than retrying blindly.
1. Try once more. A meaningful share of failures are transient, particularly on Instagram and Facebook. One retry after a short pause fixes a lot.
2. Check the length. Media over 30 minutes is rejected before download begins. Long lectures, streams and podcast episodes hit this.
3. Slow down. There is a limit of 20 requests per minute per IP. Working through a list quickly reaches it, and the symptom looks like a broken tool.
4. Check the link type. A profile link is not a video link. A Story link is not a post link. A quote post carries no media of its own. Copying the wrong thing is extremely common.
5. Try a second known-good link. If that fails too, extraction has probably broken after a site change — a backend fix, not something you can work around today.
Once a link resolves you get a list of buttons, and Best quality (auto) is the right default nearly every time.
Auto takes the best video stream at 1080p or below, pairs it with the best audio, and merges them into a single MP4. That merge matters more than it sounds: many sites publish high-resolution video and audio as separate streams, so picking the highest raw number can hand you a silent file. Auto exists to prevent exactly that.
The remaining buttons are raw formats the site publishes, up to eight of them. Take one if you specifically want a smaller file for a metered connection, or a resolution above the ceiling and can handle the audio situation yourself.
MP4 is what auto always produces, because it plays everywhere without conversion — every phone, every browser, every editor.
Some limits are structural. Knowing them saves time.
Anything requiring an account. Private posts, friends-only content, subscriber and members-only material, close-friends lists, private groups. There is no login step in these tools and none is planned — a tool that logs in on your behalf risks your account, and one that uses someone else's is doing something worse.
Expired content. Stories are withdrawn after 24 hours. Once withdrawn, there is nothing at the other end.
Deleted content. Same reasoning.
Bulk downloads. One link at a time, deliberately. Playlist and channel scraping is what gets tools like this blocked at source.
Original uploaded files. Every platform re-encodes on upload. The best available version is always already a compressed copy.
For platform-specific behaviour, these go deeper than this page does.
YouTube: choosing a resolution · Shorts · converting to MP3 · thumbnails
TikTok: troubleshooting a failed link · the watermark question · extracting sounds
Instagram: the four video types · saving on iPhone · saving on Android · stories and the clock · photo quality
Facebook: why links fail · Reels across Meta apps
X (Twitter): what X does to video · GIFs that are not GIFs
Open it in a private browsing window. If the video plays there, it is publicly reachable and will almost certainly resolve.
Most major public video platforms. The private-window test is a better predictor than any list, because it checks the thing that actually matters.
Many sites publish high-resolution video and audio separately. Use Best quality (auto), which merges both into one file.
No. One link at a time, by design — bulk requests are what get tools like this blocked at the source.
If several known-good public links fail within minutes, extraction has likely broken after a site change. That is a backend fix — try again later the same day.
No. Every platform re-encodes on upload, so the best available version is already a compressed copy.