What this cannot do
The limits, in one place, so you can stop looking.
By using this site you confirm you have the right to download the file you request.
Why a page like this exists
Every tool in this category advertises the same thing: all sites, all formats, 4K, no watermark. Most of it is not true, and the cost of finding out is your time — three sites, four pop-ups, and a file that was not what the button said.
So this is the opposite list. If what you want is on it, nothing here will help and you can stop. That is more useful than another promise.
Things no web tool can do, including this one
- Remove a watermark that is burned into the picture. TikTok paints its mark into the frames before storing the file. Removing it means cropping the frame or inventing what was behind it — anything advertising removal is doing one of those.
- Read a private account, a protected post, or a members-only video. Those need a session. We never hold one, and any site that offers this is asking for yours.
- Download an Instagram story. A story is never published to the web — there is no page to read and no address to fetch.
- Download a private Telegram channel. Same reason: it exists only inside the app.
- Raise the resolution of a video above what was uploaded. Upscaling stretches the same pixels and guesses between them; it makes the file heavier and slightly softer and adds no detail.
- Recover the original file someone uploaded to Instagram, X or Facebook. Those platforms re-encode on upload, so the original is gone before the post exists.
Platforms we tested and cannot support
| Platform | What happens | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Refused | Serves a human-verification page to our reader. The legitimate route is their official API. | |
| Odysee | Refused | No extractor exists for it. |
| Apple Podcasts | Refused | No extractor exists for it. |
| Al Jazeera | Fails | Refuses the TLS handshake from our server’s address. Fails even in a real browser from here. |
These were each tried against a real link before being written down. If one of them starts working, this table changes.
Platforms that work, but not for everything
| Platform | The limit | Measured |
|---|---|---|
| Telegram | Posts over its own web size limit are not published to the web at all | 12 consecutive posts: 5 served, 6 over the limit, 1 with no video |
| Vidio | Much of the catalogue is licensed for Indonesia alone and returns nothing elsewhere | A Premier League clip returned an empty playlist; a news clip converted normally |
| Twitch | Archived broadcasts past a length cap are refused rather than queued | Clips resolve in seconds; a four-hour VOD would hold the queue for everyone |
| CNN | The Arabic edition publishes one row where the English publishes four | arabic.cnn.com: 1 row · edition.cnn.com: 1080p/720p/360p/240p |
| Mixcloud | No WAV, because nothing there is short enough for it to make sense | A 19:53 mix is 45.5 MB as a 320 kbps MP3 |
Three places where you should not use this at all
On Bandcamp, buy the record. A purchase gives you lossless FLAC or WAV of the master instead of a converted stream, and the money goes to the artist. This page can only reach the preview.
On SoundCloud, check for the artist’s own download button first — where they enabled it, it hands you the file they uploaded rather than a re-encode.
On the Internet Archive and on Loom, use the download already on the page. Both give you the original file with no conversion and no queue.
What we will not add
Anything that requires holding your session on another service. Story viewers, private-channel readers and "log in for more" downloaders all work by becoming you, and the account is worth more than the file.
Watermark removal, because the honest version is cropping and calling that removal would be a lie about what the file is.
Frequently asked questions
Will any of this change?
Some of it. Platforms change what they publish, and this page is edited when they do rather than left to rot.
Why list your own limits?
Because the alternative is you finding them out one at a time, which is worse for you and worse for us.