Legal & ethical boundaries
General principles, stated plainly. This is not legal advice and does not cite specific statutes, the correct answer always depends on your jurisdiction, and for that you want a lawyer in it, not a website.
1. Copyright is the baseline
Video content is, in most jurisdictions, copyrighted from the moment it's made. The copyright is typically held by the creator or by whoever the creator assigned it to. That means the default position is: you have no right to copy a video unless the rights holder granted one, through a license, a public-domain dedication, or an applicable exception in your local law.
2. "Personal use" is not a universal right
Some countries have private-copy or private-use exceptions that allow copying for personal, non-commercial use under conditions; many do not, or scope them narrowly (e.g., only from lawfully obtained sources). Whether downloading a clip for your own offline viewing is legal where you live is a question only local law answers, and it can differ between the country where you are, where the platform is, and where the content was created.
3. Platform terms are a separate layer
Most platforms' terms of service prohibit downloading or scraping, regardless of what copyright law allows. Breaching a platform's ToS is a contract question between you and the platform (enforcement ranges from account action to, rarely, litigation). A downloader that reads public pages does not change that layer for you as a user.
4. Redistribution is a different animal
Even where personal copying might be defensible in a jurisdiction, re-uploading, sharing, or selling downloaded content is a far less defensible act, it's the act that actually harms the rights holder. If you would not be comfortable with the creator finding your copy on another platform, don't put it there.
5. Real people set their own boundaries
Content featuring identifiable, non-anonymous people carries a consent dimension that fictional or studio content does not. This downloader therefore refuses to support platforms whose core content is real people's material gathered without their participation (leak and stalking aggregators, non-consensual material), refused at the service level. Your own downloads should respect the same line.
6. Age and adult content
This site lists adult platforms and assumes an adult audience. It performs no age verification, because it does not need to: it serves no media, and the platforms do their own age-gating on their own side. The practical rule for users is the same as for any adult platform: you must meet the age requirement of both the platform and your own jurisdiction, and "the site did not ask for my age" is not a defence to either of them. Platforms run their own verification where they have any, sign-in walls, age gates, payment flows, and the parser touches only the public surface, so its role in an age question is limited to refusing to weaken those gates. That is why the age line lives in the terms as a user confirmation rather than in the site as a check.
7. How platform names are used
Platform names appear only in factual compatibility or refusal statements, which is the narrowest use: we describe what the parser can or cannot do with a domain, without logos, without implied endorsement, and without adopting a platform's own branding. That nominative use is what lets the site list platforms honestly without being affiliated with them, and it is why an objection to a name's usage is handled through the takedown policy rather than by quietly renaming the platform or dropping it without a record. Where a platform objects to being listed at all, the outcome is a published decision on the status board, not a private accommodation.
8. A note on this page itself
This page states general principles, not specific statutes, on purpose. Statute-level answers change by country and by year, and a page that cites a specific section is a page that goes stale and then misleads. So the page names the layers, copyright, private-copy exceptions, platform terms, and consent, and it names which questions only a lawyer in your jurisdiction can answer. The restraint is a feature, not a gap: the site's job is to be accurate about what it does and does not do, and to point at the law without impersonating it.