Vid Kraken — YouTube Download API

REST API to download videos from YouTube and to fetch direct download links from YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, and Facebook.

Getting Started

Sign up at vidkraken.com
Grab your API key from the dashboard
Pass it on every request as: Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY

Usage & billing

Every plan includes a monthly download quota plus bandwidth, measured by the actual file size of your downloads. Metadata lookups have their own quota (5× your download quota) and use no bandwidth. Failures are never charged.

Endpoint	Counts against
`POST /download`	1 download + bandwidth at actual file size
`POST /info`	1 info request
`POST /list-channel`	Account add-on — contact us to enable
`POST /client-download`	Account add-on — contact us to enable

Polling endpoints (GET /download/{jobId}, GET /info/{jobId}, GET /client-download/{jobId}) are free. Failed jobs, auth failures (401) and limit errors (403) are not charged.

API Endpoints

InfoFetch metadata for a YouTube video without queueing a download.DownloadServer-side YouTube downloads — submit a job, poll for the CDN URL.ChannelList recent videos from a YouTube channel.