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cobalt — save video, audio, and GIFs from websites in one click
cobalt lets you save what you love without ads, tracking, paywalls or other nonsense. just paste the link and you're ready to rock!
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Iaroslav Chuikov
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Regarding of the initial idea of Product Hunt, I want to share with the community a tool I've found across Internet and its name is Cobalt
Cobalt is a platform which helps you to download video, audio, GIF, etc from any site or social media – with just one click. Paste URL and push the button, that's all.
No ads, trackers, paywalls, or other nonsense. just a convenient web app that works anywhere, whenever you need it.
Cobalt was created for public benefit, to protect people from ads and malware pushed by its alternatives. we believe that the best software is safe, open, and accessible.
You can find more information about the project's motivation and mission on their website, as well as all the ways how to support Cobalt – because it's free to use (but donations are always welcome for the team)
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@zhiqi_shi hi, thanks for your comment, but better forward it directly to the team via contacts on their webpage: no any members of Cobalt actually involved into this launch
@zhiqi_shi revenue is not really our goal here, we rely on donations & partnerships (such as with royalehosting) to keep cobalt online.
btw, if you're looking for a proper and unbiased/unsponsored adblocker, try "ublock origin".
Thanks for hunting this @je_suis_yaroslav.
I feel that there's need for some UX improvements. I pasted a Youtube link but nothing happened.
@je_suis_yaroslav @ashitvora do you use any extensions that suppress new tabs? if so, disable them and try again!
I am actually using Cobalt for 2 years and it's a great tool. I only wish if it can download/convert longer videos.
awesome! thank you man, really tired of sketchy third party websites when you gotta download somthing. everyone needed this!
Hi, That's very useful. thanks.
I see that the chrome extension isn't working. is there a way to create a link directly to the download page for a url? like https://cobalt.tools/?video=www... or maybe there's an alternative extension that can be downloaded from github and not extensions store?
Oh nice. Can I just go on giphy and download any Gif, ready to upload to my Beehiiv newsletter?
Great product - already swapping it for yt-dlp. Having a UI that can choose sections of a video would be fantastic. 2 parameters: start time and end time. Just a thought!
@wukko This is such a useful tool! The simplicity of just pasting a link and downloading content without the hassle of ads or paywalls is amazing. It's great to see a product focused on user privacy and safety. I'm curious if there are any plans to support browser extensions for even quicker access?
@renchu_song we aren't planning on making browser extensions at this time, because google and mozilla take down or block updates of similar extensions. it already happened to a community-made extension in the past, and that one simply opened a link to cobalt (https://github.com/dimdenGD/coba...)
Huge congrats on going live! 🎉 Looking forward to seeing how your product transforms the space. 🙌
Looks Cool, but revenue generation is gonna be an issue though. Excited how it will turn up.
