Grabvex started as a problem I had on a regular Tuesday: I wanted to save one Pinterest video, and twenty minutes later I was still fighting a website that didn't want me to.
Every downloader I tried felt like a trap. Five buttons that all said "Download," and four of them opened a casino. A countdown timer for no reason. A pop-up asking me to turn off my ad blocker, then another asking me to allow notifications. Somewhere under all of it, maybe, was the file. By the time I found it I'd forgotten what I came for.
So I built the version I actually wanted. One box, one button, the file. That's Grabvex.
What it does
You paste a link from Pinterest, Threads, Facebook or YouTube. Grabvex reads the page, finds the original media file behind it, and hands you the address to download it. The video or image comes straight from the platform's own servers — it never routes through me, never sits on a machine I own.
You get the file the way it was uploaded. Full resolution, real format, no logo burned across the bottom. If a clip was posted in 1080p, that's what you get. I don't upscale it, I don't re-encode it, and I'd never pretend a 480p file is "HD."
The rules it runs on
- No accounts. You never sign up, log in, or connect anything.
- No ad tracking. No ad pixels, no profiles, no selling your data — just privacy-respecting Google Analytics so I can see which pages actually help people.
- No stored links. The link you paste lives in memory for the couple of seconds it takes to find your file, then it's gone. No history, no log.
- No dark patterns. One real download button. No decoys, no upsell, no "premium" tier that unlocks the thing you came for.
What it won't do
Grabvex only works with public posts. If something is private, it can't be reached — the same way you'd see nothing opening that link in a private browser window. That's not a limitation I plan to "fix." Private should stay private.
It's also not a piracy tool. Save your own posts, save things you have a right to use, give credit when something isn't yours. What you do with a file is on you.
Where it's going
Right now it handles Pinterest, Threads, Facebook and YouTube. Instagram and TikTok are next — added only once they work as cleanly as the rest. The bar is simple: it ships when it's good, not before.
That's the whole story. If you've got a bug, an idea, or a link that won't cooperate, the blog is where I write things down, and the tools are one click away.
— Built and maintained by one person. Not affiliated with Pinterest, Threads, Facebook, YouTube, Meta or Google.