Hand-picked for your team

Hi, the video ingestion API
made for ✦ ✦ ✦ your team.

Bulk YouTube ingestion, direct to your cloud bucket. 99.9998% extraction rate, sub-500ms time to first byte, contractual SLAs. The video pipeline your team would build, if you had a quarter to spend on it.

99.9998%

Extraction rate

30-day rolling, prod

100+TB

Per month

Per top-tier customer

<500ms

Time to first byte

Edge-warmed jobs

99.9%

Contractual SLA

Money-back if missed

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Replaces in-house yt-dlp pipelines, Oxylabs, Decodo and Bright Data proxy meshes. White-glove migration included on every paid tier.

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.

download_video.py

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Why teams switch

Your video pipeline is one yt-dlp issue away from breaking.

Open-source on the critical path, 3000+ rotating proxies, no SLA. Production teams move off this stack because they cannot afford the day it stops.

Video source

The old way

yt-dlp + proxy mesh

Open-source CLI + Oxylabs / Decodo / Bright Data, 3000+ rotating proxies

If yt-dlp breaks tomorrow, your prod breaks tomorrow. Open-source on a critical path, maintained by volunteers, zero contractual obligation.

3000+ proxies look fast on paper. In practice they're all blocked within 2 to 3 weeks. You rebuild the pool constantly.

Proxies are neither reliable nor fast. Rotation overhead + retries push p95 latency past 5 seconds, even when they work.

Critical open-source dependency. Maintainer burnout, legal cease-and-desist, sudden auth changes on YouTube. Any of these takes you offline overnight, with no one to call.

10 to 15 hrs / week of engineering on proxy babysitting and yt-dlp patches, instead of your product.

No SLA, no migration path, egress fees on every download, watermark bypass that breaks every few weeks.

TornadoAPI

One endpoint. Production-grade.

Owned anti-restriction engine. Contracts, not promises.

Contractual SLA from 99.5 to 99.9%, money-back if missed. Written in your contract, not a status page promise.

Owned anti-restriction stack. We eat the proxy-burn pain so you don't. No 3000-proxy mesh to babysit.

99.9998% extraction rate measured live, 30-day rolling. Sub-500ms time to first byte.

Direct delivery to S3, Azure, GCS, Alibaba OSS, R2. Zero egress fees, no intermediate server.

Founder-level Slack access. White-glove migration off yt-dlp on every paid tier, included.

A company that picks up the phone when something breaks. Not a GitHub issue queue.

Direct to your bucket. Compatible with all S3-compatible storage.

A real ask for your team

Give us 15 minutes. I'll show you how your team would call us, on your data, with the cost laid out line by line.

30-day money-back if SLA missed. White-glove migration off yt-dlp included. Founder-level Slack access.

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