download a tiktok video

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.

about the watermark

grab asks for the source file instead of the rendered share copy so most downloads come back clean. that isn't a promise though. what tiktok hands over changes without warning and some days the watermarked render is all there is. if the file arrives with the overlay burned in there's no second pass that takes it off.

what you get

• video: mp4 at whatever it was uploaded at. vertical video rarely gets near 1080p anyway so the ladder doesn't matter much here.
• audio only: an mp3 of the sound, which is the quickest way to keep a track you heard in a video.

photo-mode posts are a set of images instead of a video. you get a list of links back, one per image, and you pick the one you want.

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.

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