cobalt-7/README.md

cobalt

Best way to save what you love.
Live web app: cobalt.tools

What's cobalt?

cobalt is social and media platform downloader that doesn't piss you off.

It's fast, friendly, and doesn't have any bullshit that modern web is filled with: no ads, trackers, or analytics.
Paste the link, get the video, move on. It's that simple. Just how it should be.

Supported services

Service	Video + Audio	Only audio	Only video	Additional notes or features
bilibili.com	✅	✅	✅
Instagram	✅	✅	✅	Supports photos and videos, lets you pick what to save from multi-media posts.
Instagram Reels	✅	✅	✅
Pinterest	✅	✅	✅	Support for videos and stories.
Reddit	✅	✅	✅	Support for GIFs and videos.
SoundCloud	➖	✅	➖	Audio metadata, downloads from private links.
Streamable	✅	✅	✅
TikTok	✅	✅	✅	Supports downloads of: videos with or without watermark, images from slideshow without watermark, full (original) audios.
Tumblr	✅	✅	✅	Support for audio file downloads.
Twitch Clips	✅	✅	✅
Twitter/X *	✅	✅	✅	Ability to pick what to save from multi-media tweets.
Vimeo	✅	✅	✅	Audio downloads are only available for dash files.
Vine Archive	✅	✅	✅
VK Videos	✅	❌	❌
VK Clips	✅	❌	❌
YouTube Videos & Shorts	✅	✅	✅	Support for 8K, 4K, HDR, VR, and high FPS videos. Audio metadata & dubs. h264/av1/vp9 codecs.
YouTube Music	➖	✅	➖	Audio metadata.

This list is not final and keeps expanding over time, make sure to check it once in a while!

*Reliability of downloads from Twitter is questionable due to its current management.

cobalt API

cobalt has an open API that you can use in your projects for free.
It's easy and straightforward to use, check out the docs and see for yourself.
Feel free to use the main API instance (co.wuk.sh) in your projects.

Host an instance yourself

Requirements

• Node.js 18 or above
• git

Setup script installs all needed npm dependencies, but you have to install Node.js and git yourself.

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
4. Done.

You need to host API and web app separately since v.6.0. Setup script will help you with that!

Ubuntu 22.04+ workaround

nscd needs to be installed and running so that the ffmpeg-static binary can resolve DNS (#101):

sudo apt install nscd
sudo service nscd start

Docker

It's also possible to run cobalt via Docker. I highly recommend using Docker compose.
Check out the example compose file and alter it for your needs.

Disclaimer

cobalt is my passion project, so update schedule depends solely on my free time, motivation, and mood.
Don't expect any consistency in that.

License

cobalt is under AGPL-3.0 license.
Fluent Emoji used in the project is under MIT license.