SaveClips API

Overview

The SaveClips API is a free REST API that returns download links for videos from TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, and more. All endpoints accept JSON and return JSON.

Base URL

Authentication

No API key is required. Rate limits may apply on the free tier. For commercial use contact partners@saveclips.download.

Rate Limits

Response Shape

All download endpoints return the same structure:

{ "file_path": "downloads/uuid.mp4",
  "title":     "Video title here",
  "uploader":  "Channel / username",
  "duration":  243,
  "thumbnail": "https://..." }

The full download URL is: https://saveclips-api.onrender.com/ + file_path

TikTok

Instagram

Facebook

YouTube

Telegram

Generic (any URL)

Error Handling

Code Examples

JavaScript

const res = await fetch("https://saveclips-api.onrender.com/tiktok/download", {
  method: "POST",
  headers: { "Content-Type": "application/json" },
  body: JSON.stringify({ url: "https://www.tiktok.com/@user/video/123" })
});
const data = await res.json();
const downloadUrl = "https://saveclips-api.onrender.com/" + data.file_path;

PHP (cURL)

$ch = curl_init("https://saveclips-api.onrender.com/tiktok/download");
curl_setopt_array($ch, [
  CURLOPT_POST => true,
  CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => json_encode(["url" => $videoUrl]),
  CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => ["Content-Type: application/json"],
  CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
]);
$data = json_decode(curl_exec($ch), true);
$fileUrl = "https://saveclips-api.onrender.com/" . $data["file_path"];

Python

import requests
res = requests.post("https://saveclips-api.onrender.com/tiktok/download",
    json={"url": "https://www.tiktok.com/@user/video/123"})
data = res.json()
file_url = "https://saveclips-api.onrender.com/" + data["file_path"]