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Free, no-login downloader for TikTok, X, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, Pinterest, Reddit, Threads, Snapchat, Twitch & Vimeo — HD video, no watermark, MP3 audio, photo carousels (ZIP), ffmpeg slideshow MP4s. Installable PWA with Android Share Target. No ads, no limits. Next.js 16 / React 19.

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# Social Media Downloader

> Download TikTok, Twitter/X, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, Pinterest, Reddit, Threads, Snapchat, Twitch & Vimeo videos without watermarks — HD video, reels, Shorts, MP3 audio, photo carousels, and ffmpeg-rendered slideshow MP4s. Free, no login, no limits. Installs as an app.

![Social Media Downloader — download HD video, reels, Shorts, MP3 audio and photos from TikTok, X, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube and more without watermarks](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Vette1123/social-media-downloader/main/docs/social-preview.png)

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### 🚀 [Try it live →](https://www.socialdownloader.space)

A free, watermark-free downloader for **TikTok, Twitter/X, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, Pinterest, Reddit, Threads, Snapchat, Twitch, and Vimeo**. Paste a link and get an HD video, reel, or Short, MP3 audio, a photo carousel (individual images or a ZIP), or a fully rendered slideshow MP4 with the original soundtrack — no login, no install required, runs in your browser.

It's also an **installable app (PWA)**: add it to your home screen and share links straight from the TikTok, Instagram, or YouTube app — no browser, no copy-paste.

A free, open-source alternative to SnapTik, SSSTik, SaveTT, SnapInsta, Y2mate, and GetFvid — with **no popups, no redirects, no tracking, and a multi-source fallback chain** so downloads keep working when any single provider goes down.

⭐ **If this tool is useful to you, please [star the repo](https://github.com/Vette1123/social-media-downloader/stargazers)** — it helps others find it.

Built with Next.js 16, React 19, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS 4, and Motion by [Mohamed Gado](https://www.mohamedgado.com).

## Why use it

- **11 platforms, one paste box.** TikTok, X, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, Pinterest, Reddit, Threads, Snapchat, Twitch, and Vimeo — auto-detected from the URL.
- **No watermark, HD by default.** Clean video with a one-tap fallback to SD, plus MP3 audio extraction on every platform that carries sound.
- **No login, no API key, no daily limit.** Nothing to sign up for and nothing installed unless you want the app.
- **Private by design.** No accounts, no tracking of what you download. Your Recent list lives only in your own browser.
- **Resilient.** A per-platform fallback chain quietly retries other sources, so a single provider outage doesn't break your download.
- **Installable PWA.** Home-screen icon, app shortcuts, and native share-in from other apps.

## Features

### Platforms

**TikTok**

- HD video downloads without the watermark
- Extract the soundtrack as MP3 (re-served with `audio/mpeg`)
- Photo carousels (slideshows): preview every image, save individually or as a ZIP, keep the original background music
- Render a TikTok slideshow into a real MP4 video (ffmpeg) when the platform only ships images

**Twitter / X**

- Native video and GIF extraction from any `twitter.com` or `x.com` status URL
- Resolves `t.co` short links

**Instagram**

- Download reels and feed videos in their original quality
- Save single-photo posts and multi-image carousels — individually or as a ZIP
- Extract the audio track from a reel as MP3
- Works with `instagram.com/p/…`, `/reel/…`, `/tv/…` and share links — no login required

**YouTube**

- Download videos and Shorts in HD as MP4
- Extract the audio track as MP3
- Rich metadata (title, channel, thumbnail) pulled from YouTube's public oEmbed
- Works with `youtube.com/watch?v=…`, `youtu.be/…`, `/shorts/…`, and `/embed/…`

**Facebook**

- Download public videos, watch clips, and reels in HD
- Extract the audio track as MP3
- Resolves `fb.watch/…` short links and `/share/…` links automatically
- Works with `facebook.com/…/videos/…`, `facebook.com/watch/?v=…`, and `facebook.com/reel/…`

**Pinterest**

- Download Pin videos and images from `pinterest.com/pin/…` (and `pin.it` short links)

**Reddit**

- Download videos from `reddit.com/r/…/comments/…` posts and `/s/…` share links

**Threads**

- Download videos and images from `threads.net` / `threads.com` posts

**Snapchat**

- Download Spotlight clips and public story/profile media

**Twitch**

- Download clips and VODs from `twitch.tv/…/clip/…`, `clips.twitch.tv/…`, and `twitch.tv/videos/…`

**Vimeo**

- Download videos from `vimeo.com/…` and `player.vimeo.com/…` via a dedicated extractor

### App experience

- **Installable PWA** — add to your home screen and launch it like a native app (standalone, own icon, splash).
- **Share Target (Android)** — installing registers the app as a share destination, so you can hit **Share → Social Downloader** from inside TikTok/Instagram/YouTube and land straight on a resolved download. No browser, no paste.
- **App shortcuts / jump list** — long-press the installed icon to jump straight to the TikTok, X, Instagram, YouTube, or Facebook downloader.
- **iOS add-to-home hint** — a quiet, on-brand nudge with the exact "Share → Add to Home Screen" steps, plus an iOS save hint on results.
- **One-tap paste** — reads the clipboard and resolves the link in a single tap.
- **Batch paste** — drop a whole list of links (one per line or space-separated); every URL is pulled out, de-duplicated, and resolved in turn with live progress.
- **Result re-pick** — switch a resolved result between **HD / SD / MP3** without re-pasting; your choice is remembered for the next link.
- **Recent** — a local, privacy-friendly history of what you've grabbed (branded per-platform tiles, "View all"), stored only in your browser and re-resolvable in one tap. Never stores the short-lived CDN/stream URL.

### Quality of life

- Inline video and image previews before downloading
- Multi-source fallback chain per platform (resilient against any single provider going down)
- Warm-instance resolve cache and direct tunnel downloads for faster, lighter fetches
- CORS-proxied media routes so downloads (and Instagram's hotlink-protected CDN) work cross-origin, with HTTP range support for seek/preview
- Inline URL validation, smooth motion animations, fully responsive layout, low-power/touch-aware effects
- Eleven dedicated, SEO-tuned landing pages (one per platform)
- Production-grade SEO: dynamic OpenGraph and Twitter card images, per-platform OG images, JSON-LD (WebSite, Person, SoftwareApplication, HowTo, FAQPage), hreflang, sitemap, IndexNow ping on build, and a PWA-tuned manifest
- No registration, no API keys, no daily limit

## Supporting the project

The site is free and stays free. It is paid for by a single sponsor card shown
after a download — no popups, no redirects, no interstitials, and no tracking of
what you download. You can remove that card for good with a
[Pro subscription](https://www.socialdownloader.space/pro), or support the work
directly:

## Tech stack

| Layer            | Technology                          |
| ---------------- | ----------------------------------- |
| Framework        | Next.js 16 (App Router), React 19   |
| Language         | TypeScript 6                        |
| Styling          | Tailwind CSS 4                      |
| Animation        | Motion (formerly framer-motion) 12  |
| UI primitives    | Radix Accordion, `clsx`             |
| Icons            | Hand-rolled SVG (`src/components/icons.tsx`) |
| Hosting          | Cloudflare Workers — static export + a hand-written Worker for `/api/*` |
| Accounts         | Google OAuth (PKCE, no SDK) + Cloudflare D1 |
| Billing          | Lemon Squeezy subscriptions + webhooks |
| HTTP             | Native `fetch` (`src/lib/httpClient.ts`) |
| HTML scraping    | Regex extractors (`src/lib/htmlExtract.ts`) |
| ZIP bundling     | JSZip, lazily imported **in the browser** |
| Slideshow video  | fluent-ffmpeg + @ffmpeg-installer *(Node hosts only)* |
| YouTube fallback | youtube-dl-exec *(Node hosts only)* |
| Dynamic OG       | `next/og`, prerendered to PNG at build time |
| App shell        | PWA manifest + Share Target + shortcuts |

Four of these are *deliberate removals* rather than choices never made: **Axios**
(~half the CPU of `/api/download` — see `src/lib/httpClient.ts`), **Cheerio**
(too slow for the Worker CPU budget), **lucide-react** (three icons, hand-copied
paths), and **arctic** (41% of the Worker bundle to reach one OAuth provider).
Nothing in the deployed Worker comes from `node_modules` any more. Adding a
dependency that the Worker imports is a CPU decision — run `pnpm cf:startup`.

## Getting started

**Prerequisites:** Node.js 20+ (24 LTS recommended), pnpm.

```bash
git clone https://github.com/Vette1123/social-media-downloader.git
cd social-media-downloader
pnpm install
pnpm dev
```

Open <http://localhost:3000>.

Build for production:

```bash
pnpm build && pnpm start
```

### Environment variables

All optional — the app runs without any config. Signing in and Pro billing are
themselves optional: without the accounts/billing variables below, the site
still works as a fully anonymous, free downloader; sign-in simply is not
offered.

| Variable              | Purpose                                                                          |
| --------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| `NEXT_PUBLIC_SITE_URL`| Canonical site URL used for metadata, sitemap, and OG images.                    |
| `COBALT_API_URL`      | Self-hosted [Cobalt](https://github.com/imputnet/cobalt) instance to harden the extraction fallback chain. |
| `IG_SESSIONID`        | Instagram session cookie from a burner account. Sent only for signed-in Pro requests, to resolve login-gated posts. Public posts resolve without it. |
| `IG_SESSIONID_FOR_ALL`| Self-hosted escape hatch: set to `1` to make `IG_SESSIONID` apply to every request instead of Pro subscribers only. Without a Google OAuth client and a Lemon Squeezy subscription of your own, a self-hosted deployment can never unlock the Pro branch, so `IG_SESSIONID` would otherwise do nothing there. Same burner-account risk applies. Must stay unset on the hosted site. |
| `NEXT_PUBLIC_CF_BEACON_TOKEN` | Enables Cloudflare Web Analytics by injecting the beacon script at build time. Build-time only, like `NEXT_PUBLIC_SITE_URL` — set it as build env, not a Worker var. If Web Analytics is already enabled at the zone level in the Cloudflare dashboard, Cloudflare injects the beacon at the edge automatically; setting this too would load it twice and double-count page views. Pick one mechanism. |
| `PRO_TOKEN_SECRET`    | HMAC key (WebCrypto HMAC-SHA256) for signing Pro access tokens and session-cookie values. Generate 32+ random bytes yourself. |
| `GOOGLE_CLIENT_ID` / `GOOGLE_CLIENT_SECRET` | Google OAuth client used for sign-in. Created in Google Cloud console; both the dev and production redirect URIs must be registered on it. |
| `LEMONSQUEEZY_API_KEY` | Fetches fresh, signed customer-portal URLs per click (they expire after 24 hours and are never stored) and backs the lazy subscription reconcile. |
| `LEMONSQUEEZY_WEBHOOK_SECRET` | Verifies the `X-Signature` header on incoming Lemon Squeezy subscription webhooks. An unverified webhook endpoint would let anyone grant themselves Pro, so this is never optional once webhooks are registered. |

### Accounts and Pro subscriptions

Pro is a $3/month or $24/year subscription, sold by Lemon Squeezy. There are no
license keys: signing in is with a Google account, entitlement is a signed,
short-lived access token, and preferences (HD/SD, video/audio) sync across
devices for anyone signed in — free or Pro. Signing in never changes what is
free; it only unlocks Pro once someone subscribes.

Setting this up for a fork or self-hosted deployment, in order:

1. **Google Cloud console** — create an OAuth client and configure its consent
   screen. Register **both** redirect URIs (a mismatch between dev and
   production here is the most common thing to get wrong): the `wrangler dev`
   origin's `/api/auth/callback` and the production origin's `/api/auth/callback`.
2. **Lemon Squeezy** — set the product up as a subscription with monthly and
   annual variants, turn off license key generation, and register the webhook
   endpoint (`/api/billing/webhook`) with its signing secret. Subscribe it to
   the subscription lifecycle events — `subscription_created`,
   `subscription_updated`, `subscription_cancelled`, `subscription_resumed`,
   `subscription_expired`, `subscription_paused`, `subscription_unpaused`.
   Payment events (`subscription_payment_success` and its siblings) may be left
   on but carry no useful state: they describe an *invoice*, not the
   subscription, so the handler ignores anything whose `data.type` is not
   `subscriptions`.
   Set the product's redirect URL to `/account?checkout=success` so a buyer
   lands back on their account page; the page also polls for up to 30 seconds,
   so it recovers even if the redirect is not configured.
3. **Cloudflare** — create the D1 database, apply the migrations
   (`wrangler d1 migrations apply <name> --remote` — use this rather than
   executing the SQL files directly, or the `d1_migrations` bookkeeping table
   will disagree with the schema and later migrations will fail), add the `DB`
   binding in `wrangler.jsonc`, then set the five secrets above with
   `pnpm cf:setup` (reads `.env.cloudflare`) or `wrangler secret put`.

Order matters for one of them: do not put live checkout URLs in
   `src/config/pro.ts` until `LEMONSQUEEZY_WEBHOOK_SECRET` is set. The webhook
   route fails closed with a 503 while that secret is missing, and Lemon Squeezy
   eventually stops retrying — so a purchase made in that window is billed with
   no subscription recorded.

## How to use

**Download a video, reel, or Short**

1. Copy a link from any supported platform.
2. Paste it into the input on the homepage (or tap **Paste**, or share it into the installed app).
3. Click **Process URL** — the app fetches metadata and a clean download link.
4. Optionally preview, then click **Video** or **Extract Audio** — or re-pick **HD / SD / MP3**.

**Download several at once (batch)**

1. Paste a list of links — one per line or space-separated.
2. Each URL is detected and resolved in turn with live progress.

**Download a photo carousel**

1. Paste the photo post URL (a TikTok slideshow or an Instagram carousel).
2. All images appear as a selectable grid.
3. Toggle the selections, then download them individually or as a ZIP.
4. For TikTok slideshows, click **Video (slideshow)** to render an MP4 of the images timed to the original music.

**Install as an app**

- **Android/Chrome:** tap **Install** on the in-app prompt (or the browser's install button). Afterwards, share links straight from other apps via **Share → Social Downloader**.
- **iOS Safari:** tap **Share → Add to Home Screen**, then launch from the icon and use one-tap **Paste**.

**Supported URL formats**

| Platform  | Formats                                                                                                |
| --------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| TikTok    | `tiktok.com/@user/video/…`, `vm.tiktok.com/…`, `vt.tiktok.com/…`, `m.tiktok.com/v/…`, `tiktok.com/t/…` |
| Twitter/X | `twitter.com/user/status/…`, `x.com/user/status/…`, `t.co/…`                                           |
| Instagram | `instagram.com/p/…`, `instagram.com/reel/…`, `instagram.com/tv/…`, `instagram.com/share/…`             |
| YouTube   | `youtube.com/watch?v=…`, `youtu.be/…`, `youtube.com/shorts/…`, `youtube.com/embed/…`                   |
| Facebook  | `facebook.com/…/videos/…`, `facebook.com/watch/?v=…`, `facebook.com/reel/…`, `fb.watch/…`              |
| Pinterest | `pinterest.com/pin/…`, `pin.it/…`                                                                       |
| Reddit    | `reddit.com/r/…/comments/…`, `reddit.com/…/s/…`                                                         |
| Threads   | `threads.net/@user/post/…`, `threads.com/@user/post/…`, `threads.net/t/…`                              |
| Snapchat  | `snapchat.com/spotlight/…`, `snapchat.com/t/…`, `story.snapchat.com/…`                                 |
| Twitch    | `twitch.tv/…/clip/…`, `clips.twitch.tv/…`, `twitch.tv/videos/…`                                        |
| Vimeo     | `vimeo.com/…`, `player.vimeo.com/video/…`                                                               |

## Project structure

```
src/
├── app/
│   ├── page.tsx                 # Home page
│   ├── layout.tsx               # Root layout, metadata, JSON-LD injection
│   ├── <platform>-downloader/   # 11 per-platform landing pages (SEO)
│   ├── opengraph-image.tsx      # Dynamic 1200x630 OG image (edge runtime)
│   ├── twitter-image.tsx        # Twitter card image (delegates to OG)
│   ├── robots.ts                # robots.txt (incl. AI crawler policy)
│   ├── sitemap.ts               # sitemap.xml with hreflang + OG image
│   ├── globals.css
│   └── api/
│       ├── download/            # POST — resolves URL, returns video/image data
│       ├── video/               # GET  — proxies the video stream (video/mp4, range-aware)
│       ├── audio/               # GET  — proxies the same stream as audio/mpeg
│       ├── image/               # GET  — proxies a single image (CORS + CDN referer)
│       ├── images/              # POST — batch image fetcher with ZIP support
│       ├── slideshow/           # POST — renders an MP4 from images + audio (ffmpeg)
│       ├── thumb/               # GET  — proxied, cached thumbnails for Recent tiles
│       ├── tiktok/              # platform-specific resolve helper
│       └── youtube/             # platform-specific resolve helper
├── components/
│   ├── DownloaderApp.tsx        # Main client app (paste, batch, re-pick, Recent)
│   ├── InstallPrompt.tsx        # PWA install nudge (Android + iOS)
│   ├── PlatformLanding.tsx      # Shared landing-page template
│   ├── ImageLightbox.tsx, GlowCard.tsx, InteractiveBackground.tsx, …
│   └── icons.tsx
├── config/
│   └── site.ts                  # Single source of truth for site metadata
└── lib/
    ├── downloader.ts            # Core resolve logic + per-platform fallbacks
    ├── validator.ts             # URL validation and platform detection (11 platforms)
    ├── platforms.ts             # Per-platform copy, colors, landing config
    ├── proxyHeaders.ts          # Per-CDN Referer resolution shared by proxy routes
    ├── responseCache.ts         # Warm-instance resolve cache
    ├── history.ts               # Local, privacy-friendly Recent list
    ├── appReducer.ts            # Client state machine
    ├── audioExtractor.ts        # Audio extraction helpers
    ├── videoProcessor.ts        # Video processing utilities
    ├── ytdlp.ts                 # youtube-dl-exec fallback
    ├── structuredData.ts        # JSON-LD graph (Schema.org)
    ├── platformOgImage.tsx      # Per-platform OG image rendering
    ├── types.ts                 # Shared TypeScript types
    └── utils.ts
```

## API reference

### `POST /api/download`

Resolves a supported URL and returns download links and metadata.

```json
{ "url": "https://www.instagram.com/reel/ABC123/" }
```

Video response:

```json
{
  "success": true,
  "downloadUrl": "/api/video?url=...",
  "audioUrl": "/api/audio?url=...",
  "metadata": { "title": "…", "author": "…", "thumbnail": "…", "platform": "instagram" }
}
```

Photo carousel response:

```json
{
  "success": true,
  "metadata": {
    "title": "…",
    "author": "…",
    "platform": "instagram",
    "images": ["…", "…"]
  }
}
```

### `GET /api/video?url=<encoded>`

Proxies a video file with `Content-Type: video/mp4`, adding the correct `Referer` for each CDN (via `lib/proxyHeaders.ts`) and honoring HTTP range requests so preview/seek works.

### `GET /api/audio?url=<encoded>`

Same proxy as `/api/video` but with `Content-Type: audio/mpeg`, so browsers treat it as an audio download.

### `GET /api/image?url=<encoded>`

Proxies a single image with the correct CDN `Referer` and permissive CORS headers. Instagram's CDN refuses cross-origin browser requests, so Instagram image previews and individual downloads are routed through this endpoint.

### `POST /api/images`

Fetches a list of image URLs. Returns either a JSON list of (proxied) downloadable URLs or a ZIP archive depending on `asZip`.

```json
{ "imageUrls": ["https://…"], "title": "post-title", "asZip": true }
```

### `POST /api/slideshow`

Renders a real MP4 from a TikTok photo carousel using ffmpeg, timing each image and laying the original music on top.

```json
{
  "imageUrls": ["https://…", "https://…"],
  "audioUrl": "https://…",
  "perImageSeconds": 3
}
```

## Source fallback order

The downloader tries providers in order and falls back automatically on failure.

- **TikTok videos:** Tikwm → Snaptik → SSSTik → direct scraping
- **Twitter/X videos:** vxTwitter → public Cobalt instances
- **Instagram posts/reels:** embed page (`shortcode_media`) → public Cobalt instances → web GraphQL (login-gated posts/stories need `IG_SESSIONID`, sent only for licensed/Pro requests)
- **YouTube videos/Shorts:** public Cobalt instances → public Piped instances → `youtube-dl-exec` (metadata enriched via YouTube oEmbed)
- **Facebook videos/reels:** video plugin page (`/plugins/video.php`) → direct page scrape (`browser_native_*_url`) → public Cobalt instances
- **Vimeo:** dedicated extractor
- **Pinterest / Reddit / Threads / Snapchat / Twitch:** best-effort via public Cobalt instances

> Cobalt does the heavy lifting on serverless hosts (where `yt-dlp` isn't available). Set `COBALT_API_URL` to point the fallback chain at your own [Cobalt](https://github.com/imputnet/cobalt) instance for more reliable, higher-throughput extraction.

## Deployment

The project deploys to [Vercel](https://vercel.com/new) with no configuration. It runs on any Node.js host that supports Next.js 16 (Node 20+, ideally 24 LTS).

`@vercel/og` requires the edge runtime; the OG and Twitter card routes are already configured for it. For the most reliable extraction in production, set `COBALT_API_URL` to a self-hosted Cobalt instance.

## Legal

This tool is intended for personal use with content you have the right to save. Respect the Terms of Service of each platform and do not download content without the creator's permission. Private accounts, stories, and age-restricted, members-only, or private videos are not supported.

## Author

Built and maintained by **[Mohamed Gado](https://www.mohamedgado.com)** — [mohamedgado.com](https://www.mohamedgado.com).

## License

MIT — see [LICENSE](LICENSE).

## Issues and contributions

Open a ticket on the [Issues](../../issues) page with a description, the URL format you tried, and any error message. Pull requests welcome. If the tool saved you time, a ⭐ goes a long way.

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