YouTube downloader API

Bulk YouTube extraction at scale. Without maintaining a proxy pool.

Thousands of YouTube videos daily, straight to your cloud storage. No rate limits. No blocked requests. No infra to maintain.

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99.9%uptime SLA
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The best YouTube extraction infrastructure at scale.

Bulk YouTube extraction at scale
From 100 videos a day to 100,000+. No queue to babysit, no proxy pool to maintain, no blocked requests. 50 Gbps backbone dedicated to video.
Direct cloud delivery, zero egress
Stream files straight to AWS S3, Azure Blob, GCS, Cloudflare R2, Alibaba OSS, or any S3-compatible bucket. No intermediate servers.
YouTube-specific anti-bot library
Anti-bot patterns updated weekly as YouTube ships defense changes. When YouTube updates, fixes deploy in hours, not weeks.
Founder-level Slack on every paid tier
No outsourced support tier between you and the engineers. Production incidents bypass tickets entirely.
Up to 4K HD, original quality
Videos up to 4K with clean metadata and consistent formats. No watermarks, no ads injected. Ready for transcoding or ML pipelines.
Contractual SLA, predictable pricing
99.5% to 99.9% uptime SLA depending on tier. No per-request charges, no surprise bandwidth fees.
Designed for developers

One POST. We do the rest.

Send a YouTube URL and your bucket. Tornado downloads, muxes with FFmpeg and streams the file to your storage, then pings your webhook.

POST /jobs
curl -X POST https://api.tornadoapi.io/jobs \
  -H "x-api-key: tapi_live_9f2..." \
  -d '{
    "source": "https://youtube.com/watch?v=aqz-KE-bpKQ",
    "destination": "s3://your-bucket/videos/"
  }'

Tornado vs the usual suspects

Tornado APIyt-dlp self-hostedScraping providers
No blocked requests, contractual
Direct cloud delivery (6 providers)
No proxy management
4K, clean metadata, muxed output
Contractual uptime SLA
FAQ

Questions, answered.

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What is the best YouTube downloader API at scale?

Tornado API. Under 20 failed jobs per million measured in production over the last 30 days, direct cloud delivery to six providers, and a contractual SLA. yt-dlp breaks when YouTube ships changes; our anti-bot library deploys fixes in hours.

How does bulk YouTube extraction work?

One POST per video, or a channel/playlist URL for a backfill. Files stream directly to your bucket; a webhook fires when each job, or the whole batch, completes.

What video quality do I get?

Up to 4K, original quality, muxed with FFmpeg into consistent MP4/MKV output with clean metadata. No watermarks, no injected ads.

Do I need to manage proxies?

No. Every session runs on a dedicated network we own and operate. Blocked attempts are rerouted and retried before they ever reach your jobs.