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# cobalt
Sleek and easy to use social media downloader built on JavaScript. Try it out live: [co.wukko.me](https://co.wukko.me/)!
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![cobalt logo](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wukko/cobalt/current/src/front/icons/wide.png "cobalt logo")
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## What is cobalt?
cobalt aims to be the ultimate social media downloader, that is efficient, pretty, and doesn't bother you with ads or privacy invasion agreement popups.
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cobalt doesn't remux any videos, so you get videos of max quality available (unless you change that in settings).
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## What's supported?
- Twitter
- TikTok
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- YouTube and YouTube Music
- bilibili.com
- Reddit
- VK
## TO-DO
- [ ] niconico support
- [ ] douyin support
- [ ] Instagram support
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- [ ] Quality switching for bilibili and Twitter
- [ ] Language picker in settings
- [ ] Make cobalt fully PWA compatible (add a service worker)
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- [ ] Make switch buttons in settings selectable with keyboard
- [ ] Remake page rendering module to be more versatile
- [ ] Matching could be redone, I'll see what I can do
## Disclaimer
This is my passion project, so update scheduele depends on my motivation. Don't expect any consistency in that.
## Host an instance yourself
Code might be a little messy, but I do my best to improve it with every commit.
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### Requirements
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- Node.js 14.16 or above
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- git
### npm modules
- cors
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- dotenv
- express
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- express-rate-limit
- ffmpeg-static
- got
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- node-cache
- url-pattern
- xml-js
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- ytdl-core
Setup script installs all needed **npm** dependencies, but you have to install Node.js and git yourself, if you don't have those already.
1. Clone the repo: `git clone https://github.com/wukko/cobalt`
2. Run setup script and follow instructions: `npm run setup`
3. Run cobalt via `npm start`
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4. Done.
## License
cobalt is under [AGPL-3.0 license](https://github.com/wukko/cobalt/blob/current/LICENSE), please keep that in mind.