It started because my downloads folder was a disaster. I had one tool for TikTok, another for Instagram, a Python script someone wrote for Twitter, and a couple of janky things for forums. Half of them saved files into their own folders with their own naming, and none of them knew the others existed. So when a creator posted the same clip across three platforms, I'd end up with three copies of it, scattered, and no way to actually search anything I'd already grabbed.
I started messing with it about a year ago, just for me. The deduplication came first, because that was the thing that drove me genuinely mad. Then the dashboard, because I wanted to actually see what I had instead of digging through folders. Then everything else.
My own library is still the test bed. It's past 260,000 TikToks and 5,800 hours of recorded lives now, and it's what I test everything on. A lot of the bugs I've fixed only showed up once it got that big, which is exactly why it's useful.
What started as a personal project has grown into something I genuinely think holds up for other people, which is why it's here instead of just sitting on my drive. I'm always open to ideas and changes if there's something that'd make it work better for you.
One thing I get asked a lot: why isn't this open source? Publicly documenting how the data gets pulled would make it trivial for the platforms to patch the methods. Keeping that side closed is what keeps the tool actually working.
If you try it and something annoys you or breaks, the Discord is the fastest place to reach me. I'm usually around.
