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Save a Bluesky video before the post goes

Paste the link to any Bluesky post. You get the video as an MP4, or the images at the size they were uploaded — no account, no app, no upload of your own.

720p is Bluesky's ceiling — no tool can go higher

Open the post, tap share, copy the link, and paste it here.

How this works

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  1. You paste a post link

    Your browser asks Bluesky's public API what the post contains. That question goes from your device to Bluesky — it does not pass through this site.

  2. You pick what to save

    For video, Bluesky offers 360p and 720p and nothing else. For images, you get every picture on the post at its uploaded size.

  3. Your browser does the work

    Video arrives as a run of short pieces. Your browser fetches them straight from Bluesky's CDN and joins them into one MP4 on your own machine. This is the part that takes a moment.

  4. The file saves itself

    When the last piece is in, the finished MP4 goes to your downloads with a name taken from the post rather than a string of random characters.

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One box per piece of video. They fill as each piece arrives, so you can always see the work is moving.

Because the video never passes through this server, there is no queue to wait in and no size limit to run into. You can confirm it yourself: open your browser's network panel and watch the requests go to bsky.app, not here.

Common questions

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Why is there no 1080p or 4K?

Because Bluesky does not keep one. The platform re-encodes every upload to 360p and 720p, and the original is not served to anyone. Any site promising 4K from a Bluesky link is describing a file that does not exist.

Why does it take a few seconds instead of being instant?

Bluesky stores video as a run of short pieces rather than one file. Your browser has to fetch each piece and join them before there is an MP4 to hand you. A minute of video is usually about ten pieces.

Does the video go through your server?

No. Your browser talks to Bluesky directly for both the post details and the video itself. Images are the one exception — Bluesky's image CDN refuses cross-site requests, so an image passes through this server to reach you with a proper filename. It is streamed through and never stored.

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