download an instagram reel or post

how it works

1. paste the link into the box on the tool.
2. pick video or audio, and a quality if you don't want the default.
3. grab resolves the link and the file arrives.

usually that last step is just a direct link to the platform's cdn. the data never touches the grab server. some sites won't serve a client they don't recognize and those get tunneled through the server and then back out. no writes to disk happen. youtube and some others hand over the video and the audio separately but your browser stitches those back together via ffmpeg compiled to webassembly.

quality walks down a ladder: 1080p, then 720p, 480p, 360p, 240p if the higher ones are not there. audio mode gives you mp3.

what you get

• reels and video posts: mp4 at source quality.
• carousels: you get a list of links, one per item, so you can take the third photo without saving the other nine.
• audio only: an mp3, for the sound on a reel.

instagram keeps changing its mind about what a logged-out request can see. that's usually why a link stops working. it normally comes back after a while.

if the format is wrong

there's a remux tab that runs ffmpeg inside your browser so the file stays on your machine. it converts between mp4, webm, mp3, ogg, opus, wav, m4a.

"auto" rewrites the container and copies the codec across untouched. converting to mp3 or wav re-encodes instead and you lose a little each time.

what doesn't work

some sites don't work at all:

• reddit and bilibili block the vpn exit grab downloads through, so they stay off until that gets fixed.
• twitch and vimeo are broken upstream in the extractor grab falls back on and there's nothing to fix on this end.
• anything behind a login is out. grab has no account anywhere and it won't pretend to be you.
• drm-protected streams can't be downloaded and that isn't going to change.

what grab keeps

you don't need an account to download anything.

nothing you fetch gets written to disk on the server. direct downloads never touch it and tunneled ones just pass through and get dropped. grab doesn't keep a history of what you downloaded and it doesn't run analytics. nothing about you is sold to anyone.

the full privacy policy and terms are in the about tab.

questions