# Viddl

A free video downloader I built because the alternatives were ad farms with a download button hidden somewhere inside. Paste a YouTube, X, Instagram, Facebook, Reddit, or Threads URL and get the MP4.


## Why it exists

Video downloaders have a special talent for making a basic job feel suspicious. Five fake download buttons, three pop-ups, a browser notification request, and somewhere underneath it all there might be the actual file.

I wanted the opposite. Paste a link, get the MP4, leave. No account. No ceremony. No need to explain to your antivirus why you clicked the large green button.

## What it handles

Viddl accepts links from YouTube, Twitter/X, Instagram, Facebook, Reddit, and Threads. It resolves the media and returns a normal video file in the best quality it can get. Nothing else is required.

## The annoying part

Social platforms constantly change their pages, signatures, endpoints, and rules. Keeping a downloader working becomes an arms race against several companies with more engineers than sense of humour.

Viddl is still online, but it is low-maintenance. It may occasionally break when a platform changes something, because I have resisted turning “download this video” into my full-time war with YouTube. That is the deal.

[Download a video with Viddl](https://viddl.me)



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