Video Downloader

This is the general-purpose tool: paste a link from any supported site and it resolves the available video streams, then lets you pick one. The platform-specific pages exist for convenience, but the machinery underneath is the same.

What follows explains how a link becomes a file, why the quality list looks the way it does, which links will never work, and what MP4 actually guarantees you.

How a link becomes a file

Two separate steps happen, and knowing the difference explains most of what you see.

Step one — resolve. The server asks the source site what streams exist for that URL and gets back a list: resolutions, containers, whether each carries audio, video, or both. That list becomes your buttons. This step has a 20-second budget; past that the request is dropped rather than left spinning.

Step two — stream. When you click a button, the chosen stream is pulled and piped straight through to your browser. It is never written to storage on our side, which is why there is no "your file is ready" page and nothing to clean up afterwards.

Why 1080p is the ceiling on "auto"

The Best quality (auto) button asks for the best video stream at 1080p or below, plus the best audio, merged into one MP4.

The reason there is a ceiling at all: many sites publish video and audio as separate streams, so the highest-resolution video file often has no sound in it. Picking it raw gets you a silent 4K file. The auto option exists precisely to avoid that — it selects both halves and merges them.

Above 1080p that merge gets slow and the files get large, for a difference most people never see on the device they're watching on. If you specifically want a higher-resolution stream and can live with whatever audio situation it has, the raw formats are still listed below the auto button — up to eight of them.

Which links work, and which never will

Works: publicly viewable video pages on the major platforms. If you can open the link in a private browsing window without logging in, it will almost certainly resolve here.

Never works: anything requiring an account. Private posts, friends-only videos, paid or subscriber content, and anything behind a login are all out of reach by design — there is no credential step in this tool and none is planned.

Sometimes fails: Instagram and Facebook links are the least reliable, because those platforms actively block traffic from datacentre networks. When resolution fails on those two, a retry a minute later often succeeds. Site changes also break extraction periodically — that is normal for this category of tool and gets fixed on the backend, not by anything you do differently.

What MP4 actually gets you

The auto option always produces MP4 because it is the one container that plays essentially everywhere without conversion: iOS Photos, Android gallery, Windows, macOS, every browser, and every editor worth using.

Raw formats may arrive as WebM or another container. Those play fine in browsers and most modern players, but can confuse older TVs, some editing software, and WhatsApp. If you plan to forward or edit the file, take the MP4.

Downloads are named download.mp4. Rename before saving several — otherwise your browser will start appending numbers and you'll lose track of which is which.