A short video downloader that works from the link: paste a public Short and keep the original MP4 on any device.
A YouTube Shorts downloader is for the moment you need the Short as a file, outside the app. Paste the link of a public Short and ViralDrop fetches the original MP4 and saves it to your phone or computer. Creators use it to pull their own Shorts back out for a re-edit or a cross-post, and researchers use it to keep a reference they can step through frame by frame. If the words matter more than the picture, a transcript of the Short gives you them as text. Download only Shorts you own or have permission to use.
The Short has to be public. A private or deleted Short, or one blocked in the region the file is fetched from, cannot be saved.
New accounts get free welcome credits, and each Short you save costs 1 credit of them.
Any browser on iPhone, Android, Windows or Mac. No app to download, no extension to trust.
You never sign in to YouTube or connect a channel. The public link is all ViralDrop needs.
ViralDrop stamps nothing onto the video, so the file you get looks like the Short as it was posted.
Batch mode takes one link per line and saves each video as it is fetched.
If a Short cannot be fetched, the credit comes back to your balance on its own.
YouTube's own options for downloading Shorts work inside YouTube. With a YouTube Premium membership you can download videos to watch offline in the YouTube app, but the copy stays in the app rather than becoming a file you can edit.
For your own uploads, YouTube Studio lets you download an MP4 of any video you posted, in 720p or 360p depending on its size, up to five times a day per video. The same help page says you can't download other users' videos there, and points to Premium's offline viewing instead. The rights behind that rule apply to a download from this page too: use it for your own Shorts, or for ones you have permission to use.
Tap Share under the Short, choose Copy link, and drop the link into the box at the top of this page. One press fetches the original video and saves it as an MP4 file for 1 credit.
You get the MP4 file YouTube serves for that Short, not a screen recording. ViralDrop does not convert, compress or upscale it, so the picture is exactly the version YouTube stores for the video.
Yes, as far as ViralDrop is concerned: nothing is added to the file. Text, stickers or a logo that the creator put into the Short while editing are part of the picture and stay in it.
No. Only public Shorts can be fetched. A private, deleted or region-blocked Short returns an error, and the credit for that attempt goes straight back to your balance.
No. The downloader runs in your browser. You sign in to ViralDrop to keep your credits in one account, and you never need a YouTube account for it.
1 credit per Short, the same for every platform. Welcome credits pay for the first few. After that, plans start at $9 a month for 100 credits across all tools.
Only your own, or one you have permission to use. A downloaded file does not come with the rights to the video, so ask the creator before a copy of their Short appears on another channel.
Paste a public Short's link at the top of this page and keep the original file.