The Download Infrastructure Behind Leading Content Platforms

Download & at Scale.
Without Getting Blocked. Ever.

Clipping tools, podcast platforms, and content engines use Tornado to download thousands of videos and episodes daily — streamed directly to S3, Azure, or GCS. No rate limits. No blocked requests. No infrastructure to maintain.

100 GB proof-of-concept included. No credit card required. First download in under 5 minutes.

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400+ TB
Daily Throughput
99.9%
Uptime SLA
<2 min
Avg Job Time

Powering clipping platforms, podcast analytics tools, and content teams processing millions of videos monthly

Your Download Pipeline, Solved

Focus on Your Product. We Handle the Downloads.

Tornado handles the entire download-to-cloud pipeline so your team focuses on what matters: building your product.

YouTube Videos & Spotify Podcasts | Direct to AWS S3 • Azure Blob • Google Cloud Storage • Alibaba OSS • S3 Compatible

Handle Any Volume Without Throttling

From 100 videos to 100,000 per day. No rate limits, no queues, no blocked requests. Our 40 Gbps backbone and 500+ nodes handle whatever you throw at them.

HD/4K Video & Podcast Audio, Ready for Your Pipeline

Download YouTube videos up to 4K and Spotify podcasts in original quality. Clean metadata, consistent formats, no watermarks or ads injected.

2-Minute Average Jobs, Not 2-Hour Queues

Average job completes in under 2 minutes. 95th percentile under 5 minutes. No queues, no polling, no wasted compute. Just fast, reliable downloads at any scale.

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Zero Egress Fees, Zero Intermediate Servers

Files stream directly to your bucket: AWS S3, Azure Blob, Google Cloud Storage, Cloudflare R2, Alibaba OSS, or any S3-compatible endpoint. No double-hop, no surprise data transfer costs. Learn more about Direct Cloud Export.

Go From 1 TB to 100 TB Without Re-architecting

Start with 100 videos a day and grow to 100,000 without changing a single line of code. Our infrastructure scales with you - no capacity planning, no re-architecture required.

Proprietary Anti-Bot Engine. 99.9% Extraction Rate.

Our proprietary engine adapts in real-time to platform changes. When YouTube updates its defenses, we respond within hours - not weeks. 99.9% extraction success rate across all content types. Not a proxy list. A purpose-built system maintained by a dedicated team.

Crash-Proof Architecture

Set It and Forget It

Submit your jobs and forget about them. If anything crashes, jobs automatically recover and reschedule in seconds. No data loss, no pager alerts, no manual intervention. Your team sleeps while Tornado works.

Ferris

Compatible with all S3-compatible storage services

One API Call. That Is All It Takes.

No infrastructure to manage, no proxies to configure, no download scripts to maintain. Send a request and let Tornado handle the rest.

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import requests
 
url = "https://api.tornadoapi.io/jobs"
payload = {
    "url": "https://youtube.com/watch?v=example",
    "format": "mp4",
    "video_quality": 1080
}
headers = {
    "x-api-key": "<your-api-key>",
    "Content-Type": "application/json"
}
 
response = requests.post(url, json=payload, headers=headers)
print(response.json())

Built for Teams Like Yours

Whatever You're Building, We Handle the Downloads

Video Clipping Platforms

Download thousands of long-form YouTube videos daily. Clip them into shorts with your AI. Tornado handles the ingestion — you focus on the editing and distribution.

Podcast Analytics & AI

Ingest entire podcast catalogs from Spotify. Clean metadata, consistent formats, delivered straight to your pipeline. Process 100K+ episodes without worrying about rate limits.

Content Repurposing Tools

Pull video and audio from YouTube and Spotify. Repurpose across platforms. Original quality, no watermarks, delivered to your cloud storage in minutes.

Simple, Volume-Based Pricing

Free 100 GB proof-of-concept. No egress fees, no per-request charges, no surprises. Plans typically start at $3,500/month for production workloads.

Starter

From $3,500/mo

Up to 5 TB/month

  • 100 GB free trial included
  • Direct cloud delivery (S3, Azure, GCS)
  • YouTube & Spotify support
  • 99.9% extraction rate
  • Email support
Most Popular

Growth

From $7,500/mo

Up to 25 TB/month

  • Everything in Starter, plus:
  • Priority queue access
  • Webhook notifications
  • Dedicated Slack channel with direct engineering access
  • Custom concurrency limits

Enterprise

Custom

25+ TB/month

  • Everything in Growth, plus:
  • Dedicated infrastructure
  • Custom SLA
  • Volume discounts
  • Onboarding assistance

No egress fees. No per-request charges. No bandwidth surcharges. Zero 403 errors, zero infrastructure maintenance for your team.

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about use cases, pricing, integration, reliability, and getting started with Tornado API.

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