How it works
Four stages, the limits that are real, and the things that will never work no matter how the link is phrased.
What happens between paste and download
- The file arrivesAn upload goes straight to this server's disk. A pasted link takes another route: yt-dlp resolves it and pulls the stream the platform already serves.
- A worker takes the jobEvery job is a row in a queue, and one worker at a time picks it up. Heavy work (Whisper, noise removal) can run on a machine at home instead of in the cloud.
- The tool does its jobffmpeg for media, Pillow for images, LibreOffice for documents, trimesh for 3D, fontTools for fonts, Whisper for speech. All of it open source, all of it here.
- You get the fileThe row offers the download. An hour later the file is deleted and the row keeps the name, the length and the text.
Limits
Files are deleted an hour after the job finishes. Signing in with idgo keeps your history on your account instead of in one browser, and changes nothing else. There is no paid tier, no watermark and no queue you can buy your way past.
What will never work
DRM-protected streaming, private posts, and anything that needs someone else's login. None of that is a bug worth reporting.