Save Video Bot: overview and features

Save YouTube Video Bot is a Telegram bot that downloads files, video and music from a link. The author states support for most websites and the ability to archive files larger than 2 GB. Catalog data puts the bot at roughly 21.5 thousand monthly active users.

What Save Video Bot is

It runs on one principle: you send a link, the bot returns the file in the chat. Nothing gets installed, no intermediary websites are involved, and the result stays in your chat history, reachable from any device.

What sets it apart is the depth of processing. Beyond plain downloading it can trim media by time with /c, pull the audio track with /a, capture a frame screenshot with /s down to milliseconds, and grab the video thumbnail with /t. There is mp4 conversion for streaming via /m and a worst-quality download through /w when you need a small file.

The author keeps the list of supported sites separately, at git.io/JfYmO, and it is worth checking in advance. The privacy policy opens with /privacy. Support runs through @pony_bots, and the project accepts donations on Patreon.

Key features

• Download from a link — video, audio and files from sites on the supported list
• Large files — archiving for anything over 2 GB, plus /z to zip a file from a link
• Trimming and frames — /c cuts by time range, /s screenshots a moment, /t takes the thumbnail
• Audio only or light files — /a extracts audio, /w fetches worst quality, /m converts to mp4
• Playlists — /p downloads a range, for instance items five through eight
• Music search — track recognition and music search, per the author's description

How to start

Send the bot a link, which is enough for an ordinary download. A reference for every command opens with /help, and settings live in /settings. If you want a fragment rather than the whole thing, use /c with a time range. For audio alone, /a. When a file is too large for the messenger, archiving handles it, and /z zips a file from a link. If a server throttles your speed, there is an experimental /f. Premium terms are shown by /premium, the policy by /privacy, and questions go to @pony_bots.

Who it suits

People who save media regularly and are tired of ad-covered middleman sites. The command set covers the usual jobs end to end: cut a fragment out of a lecture, keep only the audio from a recording, take a frame as an image, pull a range of clips at once. The file lands in the chat immediately, which means it is available on both phone and laptop.

User reviews

Maxim Yu.: “I send a link and get a file. No sites with three Download buttons where one of them works.”

Helen T.: “The /c command solved my actual problem: I take just the ten minutes I need out of a long recording.”

Oleg V.: “About a year of use. Small thing I value is /a, since often I only want the audio track, not the video.”