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Under 20 failed jobs per million, last 30 days

Download YouTube at scale, straight into your cloud.

No proxy pool. No cookies. You rented proxies, then you added cookies, then the cookies got flagged. None of that is your product.

Free 100 GB, one time, no expiry date.
under 20
failed jobs per million
<1 min
avg job time
days
for a 32 TB corpus

The bot check arrives with your volume.

Ingest any source, at any scale

YouTube videos, Shorts, playlists and full Spotify shows. Hundreds of concurrent jobs, horizontally scalable.

We own the network. You never get blocked.

Our own ingress network (AS200546) with feedback-driven rerouting: blocks are absorbed upstream, never surfacing in your jobs.

Set it and forget it

Reliable queues, automatic retries, at-least-once delivery. Completed only once the file is confirmed in your storage.

Massive dataset delivery

Manifest in, corpus out: ~32 TB delivered to one S3 bucket, reconciled and verified.

Pay as you go, or commit by volume

$1/GB billed per megabyte, never rounded up to the gigabyte. Failed jobs never billed, zero egress fees.

Direct cloud export

S3, R2, GCS, Azure Blob, OSS or Google Drive. Your bucket, your keys, encrypted in a vault.

Designed for developers

One POST. We do the rest.

POST /jobs
curl -X POST "https://api.tornadoapi.io/jobs" \
  -H "x-api-key: tapi_live_..." \
  -d '{
    "url": "https://youtube.com/watch?v=...",
    "format": "mp4",
    "max_resolution": "1080"
  }'

# → { "job_id": "550e8400-..." }

Teams that stopped maintaining a downloader they never meant to build. Leading AI and content platforms ingest tens of terabytes a month with Tornado. Every metric is measured.

Taja AITaja AI ingests 50k+ YouTube videos through Tornado
“Tornado is the best product in the market to download YouTube videos, a critical process for our product. The team is phenomenal and solves any issue in a speedy time. A hidden gem.”Taja AI, content optimization platform
50k+ videos ingestedProducts used: Ingestion API, WebhooksDelivers to:Google Cloud Storage
A video podcast host imports full back catalogs at every onboarding
“Literally the only good API that does this. I tried every competitor and it's a side project for them. For Tornado it's the whole product.”Founder, video podcast hosting & analytics platform
Hours to onboard a catalogProducts used: Ingestion API, Direct Cloud Export, WebhooksDelivers to:OVHcloud S3
A repurposing platform keeps hundreds of thousands of user workflows running
“Most solutions struggled to keep up with ongoing changes. Tornado API has been the most reliable by far, and the team adapts fast when things shift.”Head of engineering, content repurposing platform
1.7M videos ingestedProducts used: Ingestion APIDelivers to:Cloudflare R2
An AI video company handed off its entire ingestion pipeline
“Before working with TornadoAPI, our data ingestion pipelines were slow, struggling to scale and required constant engineering maintenance. Alexandre went above and beyond, taking on the whole end to end process with download speeds faster than other competitors and at excellent pricing. Would 100% recommend.”AI video company
32 TB delivered in 4 hoursProducts used: Ingestion API, Direct Cloud ExportDelivers to:AWS S3

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