Pricing
Professional video processing at a fraction of the cost.
Start free for 3 days. Then from $12/mo. Zero egress fees. Usage-based overage so you never get cut off.
YouTube video download API
YouTube download API. Still works.
PO tokens, SABR format, age-gating. We handle all of it. You send a URL, you get an MP4 back.
Avg fetch: 3.1s · 18 regions · 99.95% uptimeFree tier · 100 fetches/moRouted through 18 regions
Input
https://
1080p720paudio-only+metadatawebhook
POST renderio.dev/api/v1/ytdlp-download
Authorization: Bearer ffsk_live_...
200 OK · success
3.4s · region: frabypassed · was US only
12:48
titleAnnual Brand Film, full cut
channel@studio.northbeam
duration12:48
size184.2 MB
Supported out of the box. Same call, every platform.
How it works
Three steps. No infrastructure.
Send a URL. We handle the rest: regional routing, retries, format negotiation, storage. Results land in your bucket or your webhook in seconds.
01SEND
Post a URL
One endpoint, any source. Paste a link from YouTube, TikTok or Instagram. Public, private or region-locked.
https://tiktok.com/@studio/video/7281…
02FETCH
We handle the hard part
Geo-blocks, rate-limits, format changes, retries. Whatever the platform throws at us, your code never sees it. You get a clean MP4 or a clean error.
OKRegion matchedauto
OKRate-limit bypassed3.1s
OKMP4 ready
03DELIVER
Get the file
Signed URL, direct stream, or webhook to your endpoint. Files persist in R2 with zero egress fees. Pull as many copies as you want.
MP4studio-nb-7281.mp412.8 MB
Why RenderIO
Built for teams who can't afford to babysit scrapers.
You came here because you tried building this yourself. Four reasons people stop running their own yt-dlp.
No geo-blocks. Anywhere.
Requests rotate across 18 residential regions automatically. A US-only video pulls from a US exit; a JP-only video from Tokyo. You never see a 403.
Scale like it's static.
1 request or 10,000 in parallel. Same API, same latency. No queues to provision, no Lambda timeouts to dodge, no proxy pool to bleed money on.
Rate-limit free.
The platforms ban scrapers. We don't get banned. We rotate, retry, and absorb the failures. Your code gets a 200 or a clean error. Nothing in between.
One API. All platforms.
Same endpoint. Same response shape. Same auth. Add a new platform and your code doesn't change. We track the upstream changes so you don't.
Use cases
What teams build with it.
The API shape is the same. What teams build downstream of it is not.
Archive before it disappears.
Brand mentions, news clips, public figures. Content gets deleted. Pull a clean copy the moment it goes live and store it in your bucket. The original is gone; yours is not.
YouTube to Shorts pipeline.
Grab the long-form video, run it through RenderIO's FFmpeg API to trim and reformat, publish to Shorts. One API call per step. No manual downloads.
youtube_yt-72811080p
tiktok_tt-5821720p
ig_reel_44131080p
youtube_yt-91281080p
tiktok_tt-2240720p
Video datasets at scale.
Pull hundreds of YouTube videos by URL or playlist ID. Normalized resolution, normalized codec, clean metadata. Webhook back to your bucket when each one is ready.
For builders
Drop it into n8n. Hand it to an agent.
One quick technical detail. The Fetch API ships with first-class connectors so the engineers, the no-code people, and the AI agents all use the same backend and the same auth.
The official n8n node. Install once, fetch forever.
Drag the RenderIO node onto any canvas. Wire a webhook on the input, a Google Drive (or S3, or Slack) node on the output, and you have a UGC pipeline running in under five minutes.
- Fetch by URL, by playlist, by handle
- Pre-built templates for TikTok monitoring, IG reels archive, YouTube channel sync
- Webhook trigger for new-video alerts
- Native binary output. No base64 gymnastics
n8n-nodes-renderiov2.4.112 templates
triggerNew IG mention
action · renderioFetch video
conditionHas captions?
actionUpload to S3
actionNotify Slack
StarterFor side projects and experimentation.$12/monthStart free trial30-day money-back guarantee. Cancel anytime. No egress fees ever.
500 commands/month
1 min max per command
Up to 2 chained commands
5 GB storage
3-day free trial
n8n / Zapier / Make
$0.08/cmd overage
GrowthProduction workloads. Content at scale.$39/monthGet growth plan30-day money-back guarantee. Cancel anytime. No egress fees ever.
1,000 commands/month
5 min max per command
Up to 5 chained commands
10 GB storage
n8n / Zapier / Make
$0.05/cmd overage
300 video downloads/month
BusinessHigh-volume. Maximum retention.$99/monthGet business plan30-day money-back guarantee. Cancel anytime. No egress fees ever.
20,000 commands/month
20 min max per command
Up to 20 chained commands
200 GB storage
Webhook notifications
n8n / Zapier / Make
$0.02/cmd overage
FAQ
Things people ask before they sign up.
Is this legal?
RenderIO runs yt-dlp in the cloud and fetches only publicly accessible content. No DRM bypass, no paywall bypass. What you download and what you do with it is your responsibility — ensure your use complies with YouTube's terms of service and applicable law.
Does it handle age-restricted videos?
Age-restricted videos require a YouTube account to access. We only fetch publicly available content without authentication. Age-gated content is not supported.
Can I download entire playlists?
Yes. Pass a playlist URL and include "playlist": true in the request body. We return an array of fetch IDs you can poll individually.
What about 4K videos?
Pass "quality": "2160p" in the request. We fetch the highest quality the video is publicly available in. If 4K requires a premium account to access, it is not supported.
What happens when YouTube changes something?
We monitor yt-dlp and patch our infrastructure server-side within hours of any breaking change. Your code does not change. Your pipeline does not break.
Also works with
Same API. Same response. Every platform below uses the same endpoint.
Stop maintaining scrapers. Start shipping pipelines.
100 fetches a month, free, forever. No card. No commitment. Open the dashboard, paste a URL, watch it come back as an MP4. In under five seconds.