Video Download Link Crawler

Extract direct download links and metadata from video URLs across 1000+ websites — including YouTube, Vimeo, TikTok, Twitter/X, Dailymotion, Facebook, Instagram, Reddit, Twitch, and many more.

🎬 What It Does

Provide any video URL and this Actor will:

• Extract all available download formats (different resolutions, codecs, audio-only, video-only)
• Return direct download URLs for each format
• Provide video metadata: title, description, duration, uploader, view count, likes
• Identify the best quality combined video+audio format automatically
• Handle playlists — automatically extracts all videos in a playlist

⚙️ How It Works

1. Input one or more video URLs
2. The Actor uses yt-dlp to extract video metadata and available formats
3. All formats with direct download URLs are collected and returned
4. Results are exported to the Apify dataset in JSON, CSV, Excel, or XML format

🚀 How to Use

1. Go to the Input tab
2. Add one or more video URLs (YouTube, Vimeo, TikTok, etc.)
3. Click Start
4. View results in the Dataset tab — each result includes direct download links

📊 Output Example

{
    "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ",
    "title": "Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up",
    "description": "The official video for...",
    "duration": 213,
    "upload_date": "2009-10-25",
    "uploader": "Rick Astley",
    "view_count": 1753774899,
    "like_count": 18866574,
    "thumbnail": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/dQw4w9WgXcQ/maxresdefault.jpg",
    "best_download_url": "https://...",
    "best_quality": "1080p",
    "best_audio_url": "https://...",
    "format_count": 22,
    "formats": [
        {
            "format_id": "137",
            "ext": "mp4",
            "type": "video_only",
            "width": 1920,
            "height": 1080,
            "fps": 30,
            "vcodec": "avc1.640028",
            "acodec": "none",
            "filesize": 25000000,
            "filesize_human": "23.8 MB",
            "url": "https://..."
        }
    ],
    "fetched_at": "2026-03-23T12:00:00+00:00"
}

🌐 Supported Sites

This Actor supports 1000+ websites including:

Category	Sites
Video Platforms	YouTube, Vimeo, Dailymotion, Bilibili, Rutube
Social Media	TikTok, Twitter/X, Facebook, Instagram, Reddit
Streaming	Twitch clips, Crunchyroll (free), Kick
News & Media	BBC, CNN, NBC, ABC News, CBS
Education	Khan Academy, Coursera (free), TED
Other	SoundCloud (audio), Bandcamp, Mixcloud

See the full list of supported sites.

⚠️ Notes

• No login required — only publicly accessible videos are supported
• Download URLs are temporary — they typically expire within hours. Use them immediately after extraction
• Rate limits — some sites may rate-limit requests from datacenter IPs. If extraction fails, try again later
• Playlists — if you provide a playlist URL, all videos in the playlist will be extracted
• Memory — default memory (256 MB) is sufficient for most use cases