astatine

get what you want without the fluff

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what's astatine?

astatine is a fork of a very good media downloader with the original branding, mascots, and other copyrighted assets all removed. it's fast, easy to use, and has no ads, trackers, or invasive analytics. paste the link, get the file, and move on. it's that simple; how it should be.

the purpose of this fork is to be fully AGPL-3.0, but otherwise almost fully identical to upstream. this enables easier modification by others.

supported services

this list is not final and keeps expanding over time. if support for a service you want is missing, create an issue (or a pull request 👀).

additional notes or features (per service)

astatine api

astatine has an open api that you can use in your projects for free~. it's easy and straightforward to use, check out the docs to learn how to use it.

how to run your own instance

if you want to run your own instance for whatever purpose, follow this guide.
it's highly recommended to use a docker compose method unless you run for developing/debugging purposes.

ethics and disclaimer

astatine is a tool for easing content downloads from internet and takes zero liability. you are responsible for what you download, how you use and distribute that content. please be mindful when using content of others and always credit original creators. fair use and credits benefit everyone.

astatine is NOT a piracy tool and cannot be used as such. it can only download free, publicly accessible content. such content can be easily downloaded through any browser's dev tools.

astatine license

astatine is licensed under AGPL-3.0.

notes:

• you must link the original repo when using any parts of code (such as using separate processing modules in your project) or forking the project.

• if you make a modified version of astatine, the codebase must be published under the same license (according to AGPL-3.0).

3rd party licenses

• Fluent Emoji by Microsoft (used in astatine) is under MIT license.
• Noto Sans Mono fonts (used in astatine) are licensed under the OFL license.

acknowledgements

ffmpeg

astatine heavily relies on ffmpeg for converting and merging media files. it's an absolutely amazing piece of software offered for anyone for free, yet doesn't receive as much credit as it should.

you can support ffmpeg here!

ffmpeg-static

we use ffmpeg-static to get binaries for ffmpeg depending on the platform.

you can support the developer via various methods listed on their github page! (linked above)

youtube.js

astatine relies on youtube.js for interacting with the innertube api, it wouldn't have been possible without it.

you can support the developer via various methods listed on their github page! (linked above)

many others

astatine also depends on:

• content-disposition-header to simplify the provision of content-disposition headers.
• cors to manage cross-origin resource sharing within expressjs.
• dotenv to load environment variables from the .env file.
• esbuild to minify the frontend files.
• express as the backbone of astatine servers.
• express-rate-limit to rate limit api endpoints.
• hls-parser to parse m3u8 playlists for certain services.
• ipaddr.js to parse ip addresses (for rate limiting).
• nanoid to generate unique (temporary) identifiers for each requested stream.
• node-cache to cache stream info in server ram for a limited amount of time.
• psl as the domain name parser.
• set-cookie-parser to parse cookies that astatine receives from certain services.
• undici for making http requests.
• url-pattern to match provided links with supported patterns.

...and many other packages that these packages rely on.