YouTube Shorts Downloader
Save any public YouTube Short as an MP4 in up to 1080p. Paste the link, get the file. Free, no watermark, no login, nothing to install.
Download a YouTube Short
Paste a Shorts link, or any public YouTube video under 15 minutes, and we'll fetch the MP4.
Works with youtube.com/shorts, youtube.com/watch and youtu.be links from public videos.
Free for personal use. Only download videos you have the right to; respect creators and copyright.
What people actually use this for
Most downloads are research. Creators pull a Short frame by frame to see where the hook lands, how long each cut runs, and when the caption appears, because those decisions are far easier to read at quarter speed in a video editor than at full speed in the feed.
The rest is archiving: keeping a copy of your own Shorts outside the platform, or saving a clip you were tagged in before it disappears. Both are legitimate. Re-uploading someone else's Short as your own is not, and it is the one use YouTube's systems are specifically built to detect.
If you are downloading Shorts to study a format you want to compete with, that pattern is worth naming: the format is the reusable part, not the file.
Frequently asked questions
Everything about downloading YouTube Shorts
Open the Short, tap Share and choose Copy link, then paste that link above and click Download video. We fetch the highest quality MP4 YouTube serves for that Short and send it straight to your device.
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Faceless makes Shorts instead of saving them: give it a prompt or a niche and it writes the script, voices it, cuts the visuals, adds captions and uploads straight to your channel.
- Scripted and voiced by AI
- Captions and B-roll included
- Auto-posted to YouTube
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