Social Media Video Downloader

Extract and download videos from TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, and dozens of other platforms — powered by the Neuro-prox high-speed video API.

Why use this Actor?

• High speed — Videos are extracted and uploaded in seconds, not minutes.
• Unlimited bandwidth — Download links are served from CDN storage with no per-GB egress charges.
• Much cheaper — Skip expensive residential proxy + cloud egress stacks. Pay only for Apify compute and a low-cost API call per video.
• Direct MP4 links — Every successful run returns a ready-to-use download_url you can pipe into your app, workflow, or storage pipeline.
• Batch processing — Submit multiple URLs in one run; each result lands as a row in the dataset.

Supported platforms

TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter/X, Vimeo, Reddit, and any other site supported by yt-dlp.

Input

{
  "urls": [
    "https://www.tiktok.com/@creator/video/1234567890",
    "https://www.instagram.com/reel/abc123/"
  ]
}

Output

Each dataset item contains:

Field	Description
original_url	The video page URL you submitted
download_url	Direct MP4 link (when successful)
filesize_bytes	File size in bytes
status	success or error
error	Error message when extraction fails

Example result

{
  "original_url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNQXAC9IVRw",
  "download_url": "https://pub-example.r2.dev/videos/abc123.mp4",
  "filesize_bytes": 533916,
  "status": "success"
}

How it works

1. You provide one or more video page URLs.
2. The Actor calls the Neuro-prox extraction API, which downloads the video through premium ISP infrastructure.
3. The video is stored on fast CDN-backed object storage.
4. A direct download_url is returned in the dataset — no Apify egress, no proxy bandwidth on your side.

Pricing

This Actor uses pay-per-video pricing. Users are charged only when a video is successfully extracted and a direct download link is returned. Failed URLs are logged in the dataset with status: error and are not charged.

What you pay for	What you get
1 video extracted	Direct MP4 download URL, file size, and source URL
Failed extractions	No charge

What's included

• High-speed extraction through premium ISP infrastructure
• CDN-hosted MP4 delivery with unlimited download bandwidth
• Zero egress fees on download links

Typical costs (at $4.99 / 1,000 videos)

Videos per run	Approx. cost
10	~$0.05
100	~$0.50
1,000	~$4.99

Monetization setup (maintainers)

In Apify Console → Publication → Monetization:

1. Choose Pay per event.
2. Add custom event video-extracted (title: Video extracted, primary event, $4.99 per 1,000).
3. Remove the apify-default-dataset-item event so failed rows are not billed.
4. Keep apify-actor-start enabled (recommended by Apify).

The Actor calls Actor.charge({ eventName: 'video-extracted' }) only after a successful extraction.

Developer setup

For maintainers deploying updates:

apify login --token YOUR_TOKEN
apify push

After apify push, re-add the PROXMOX_API_KEY secret under Source → Environment variables and rebuild the Actor.