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name: cobalt
summary: "Cobalt is an ad-free, privacy-respecting media downloader that lets you paste a link from social and video platforms and get the original file back. It's a monorepo with a Svelte web frontend and a self-hostable API that streams content like a proxy without caching."
language: Svelte
license: AGPL-3.0-only
repo: https://github.com/imputnet/cobalt
source: https://opensources.dev/resource/cobalt
health: 92
---

# cobalt

Cobalt is an ad-free, privacy-respecting media downloader that lets you paste a link from social and video platforms and get the original file back. It's a monorepo with a Svelte web frontend and a self-hostable API that streams content like a proxy without caching.

Cobalt is an ad-free, privacy-respecting media downloader that lets you paste a link from social and video platforms and get the original file back. It's a monorepo with a Svelte web frontend and a self-hostable API that streams content like a proxy without caching.