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cobalt @cobalt.tools · 30/05/2025

are you in spain? if so, your government often blocks random websites, just for fun. you’ll have to use a VPN to access the internet without laliga’s censorship.

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there are a lot more changes, such as rewritten docs and service-related improvements. we couldn't possibly make a thread that's readable enough & contained all changes, but you can read the entire changelog in cobalt: cobalt.tools/updates#11.0 (now with a better font!)

screenshot of the "updates" page with 11.0 changelog selected

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in this update, we also improved everything related to turnstile. from now on: - the annoying popup is gone, it was replaced with a small tooltip above the input bar - cobalt takes care of everything for you. no need to wait for turnstile to complete, just paste the link!

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aside from local processing, we updated the web app a lot. everything looks better, feels better, and loads faster than ever before! we migrated parts of frontend to svelte 5, which improved rendering performance even more. it's beautiful!

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local processing brings: - best file compatibility - detailed download progress - faster processing - better reliability - and reduced load on public instances it's really cool, and we're happy to finally release it for everyone!

screenshot of cobalt's processing queue with 3 tasks visible. 2 of them are complete, one of them is ongoing.

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cobalt @cobalt.tools · 28/04/2025

cobalt 11 brings on-device media processing, huge performance improvements, and refreshed ui local processing is enabled for all desktop users starting now, so you can enjoy best compatibility with players and editing tools, no extra remuxing required :) cobalt.tools

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because putting it in mp4 confuses people

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cobalt @cobalt.tools · 22/04/2025

what's harmful or dangerous about cobalt lol

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cobalt @cobalt.tools · 22/04/2025

you can install the web app! on ios, open the share sheet, and press "add to home screen". on android, open the "three dots" menu, and press "install".

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cobalt @cobalt.tools · 22/03/2025

it's usually fixed within 5-10 minutes, just like now

cobalt @cobalt.tools · 21/03/2025

cobalt is a media downloader, but without ads or other bullshit

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cobalt @cobalt.tools · 20/03/2025

bsky.app/profile/coba...

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cobalt @cobalt.tools · 20/03/2025

youtube downloading is fixed reliably! (for now, at least) go try it with various settings, all formats & qualities should be back: cobalt.tools it’s unknown for how long this will last, but hopefully it’ll be all sunshine and rainbows for a bit

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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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cobalt @cobalt.tools · 19/03/2025

saving from youtube might work once in a while, but we can't promise 100% reliability just like before. we'll keep trying, but in all honesty, both of us are exhausted and extremely demotivated 🫠

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cobalt @cobalt.tools · 19/03/2025

services other than youtube are not affected and work just like before (except for twitter, cobalt supports downloading nsfw posts again!) you can read more about the youtube issue here: github.com/imputnet/cob... if you have an idea, please make a pull request!

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cobalt @cobalt.tools · 19/03/2025

we tried one more solution to fix downloading from youtube, but it doesn't scale. it'll be broken until we figure it out. the problem is not on our side, it's youtube pushing even more restrictions than before. we did all we could to let people have free access to information.

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it's been fixed for 2 hours now

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bsky.app/profile/coba...

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cobalt lets you save what you love without ads, tracking, paywalls or other nonsense. just paste the link and you're ready to rock!

cobalt wasn't able to save youtube videos for a few hours, but it's fixed now! less formats though, so if you don't get 4k videos, try enabling HLS in video settings it's more of a bandaid fix, but it works for now ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ cobalt.tools

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cobalt @cobalt.tools · 13/03/2025

what's the suggestion? this is just a sentence

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yeah, this has been a thing for a while. it means that your IP address is temporarily banned from youtube, so you have to login to view anything

cobalt @cobalt.tools · 13/03/2025

lol you can’t screen record drm protected content

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why would i do that? people download media from there to post on other platforms. if i remove a free, safe, and easy way to do it, then they’ll either pay for premium or go to malicious websites platform gatekeeping is bad, and cobalt fights against it

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[YouTube] DRM on ALL videos with `tv` (TVHTML5) client · Issue #12563 · yt-dlp/yt-dlp

youtube’s been testing various ways of limiting access, both for downloaders and real users with adblockers most fucked up experiment being forced DRM for ALL videos, even those that are licensed as CC: github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dl... feels like it will only get worse from now on 🫠

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Checklist I'm reporting that yt-dlp is broken on a supported site I've verified that I have updated yt-dlp to nightly or master (update instructions) I've checked that all provided URLs are playabl...

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seems like there’s an increased amount of random errors related to youtube saving, typically leading to 0 byte files, since cobalt handles everything else trying again several times helps, but we’ll try to come up with a proper fix asap and come back with an update :3

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cobalt @cobalt.tools · 10/03/2025

forgot to post here, but saving from twitter has been fixed since yesterday! cobalt now automatically falls back to the embed api, which is still functional and should hopefully stay this way

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you can replicate this behavior by opening any tweet link in incognito mode in your browser

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cobalt @cobalt.tools · 10/03/2025

after several downtimes, twitter disabled the anonymous endpoint that’s used for viewing posts when logged out cobalt was using this endpoint, so it can’t get posts from twitter for now. we’ll try to figure this out in the morning and let you guys know when it’s fixed

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cobalt @cobalt.tools · 10/03/2025

saving from twitter might not work properly rn due to rather obvious reasons

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cobalt @cobalt.tools · 07/03/2025

we’re also working on an update that will (hopefully) fix all possible issues related to downloading :3c

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cobalt @cobalt.tools · 07/03/2025

well this shouldn’t happen, can you tell me what server you get slow speeds from if it ever happens again? all i need is the domain from the link, such as nachos.imput.net also, are you closer to US or EU? latency might matter a lot here

cobalt @cobalt.tools · 27/02/2025

nope, some mobile carriers blocked either cobalt or cloudflare ip ranges in kazakhstan can’t do anything about it unfortunately, you’ll have to use a vpn to go around bullshit restrictions :(

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cobalt @cobalt.tools · 21/02/2025

these servers aren’t in production, cobalt should be working fine

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cobalt @cobalt.tools · 20/02/2025

you can save anything from social media with cobalt.tools without annoying watermarks or other bullshit no need to screen record reels or youtube videos, cobalt can get them for you faster and in higher quality :)

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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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cobalt @cobalt.tools · 14/02/2025

hey! you weren't blocked, one of processing servers was having connectivity issues. i removed it from the load balancer until we figure out what's wrong, so everything should be back to normal now. can you try again and see if it works as usual?

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cobalt @cobalt.tools · 13/02/2025

it's not a feature in cobalt yet, but it might come in the future!

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cobalt @cobalt.tools · 10/02/2025

try enabling hls in settings: cobalt.tools/settings/vid...

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cobalt @cobalt.tools · 10/02/2025

thank you so much! we didn't know this link style (share/reel/:id) existed at all, so we missed it just pushed an update that adds support for these links, can you try again to see if it works for you without any manual link changes?