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Get Your Cbslocal Video File

Cbslocal serves MP4 and that is the container you keep.

Getting the Video file out of Cbslocal, step by step

The reason the Cbslocal video file is awkward to save in the first place is that the platform serves it as a stream rather than as a file. This page does the small amount of work that turns one into the other, and nothing else. Cbslocal is handled by the media route, which reads the site's own rendition list before choosing anything. Items on Cbslocal are typically under a minute, so the files are small. The renditions we see from Cbslocal arrive as MP4.

The address bar works too. Prefix any Cbslocal URL with tikt.com/:

tikt.com/https://www.example.com/path/to/media
From the Cbslocal link to a saved file
1. Copy the Cbslocal link

Use the address bar or the platform's own share button — both give a URL the extractor recognises. Point it at the single item you want, not the page around it.

2. Let it read the renditions

Paste the URL above. The extractor asks Cbslocal which renditions exist for that item and picks the best progressive one rather than assuming a quality.

3. Save what comes back

The file arrives in the container Cbslocal served it in, and the extractor does not rebuild it — so what you end up with is what the uploader encoded, for better or worse.

Tikt.com Developer API

Convert URLs into downloadable assets via a precise REST interface. Extract video, audio, and image streams with deterministic responses and process at scale.

RESTful endpoints
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Process at scale
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Python 
import requests

response = requests.post(
    "https://api.tikt.com/api/download",
    headers={"Authorization": "API_KEY"},
    json={"url": "URL"},
)

for item in response.json()["items"]:
    print(item["type"], item["url"])

Technical FAQ — Tikt.com Cbslocal Media Converter

It reads the rendition list Cbslocal publishes for that item and takes the highest progressive one — a single file with video and audio already muxed, so nothing has to be recombined afterwards. It never re-encodes, so it cannot give you a quality Cbslocal did not publish.

MP4 — whatever Cbslocal itself serves. The container is passed straight through rather than rebuilt, so there is no second round of compression between the platform's copy and yours.

Seconds, normally. Items on Cbslocal are typically short, so the file is small and the transfer is over almost as soon as it starts. If it stalls, that is a connection problem rather than a queue — there is no queue.

You get the best progressive rendition Cbslocal publishes for that item, chosen automatically. There is no upscaling on offer, because inventing pixels that Cbslocal never encoded would make the file bigger and not better.

No cap you have to pay to lift and no trial that expires. The paid plan exists for people who download in bulk or want the API; a single Cbslocal link does not need it and never will.

Yes, identically. The work happens on our side, so an old phone on a slow connection is no worse at resolving the Cbslocal link than a desktop — it just downloads the file more slowly afterwards.

Not by us. There is no re-encode step in the path, so the file you get is bit-for-bit what Cbslocal served. Whatever compression Cbslocal applied when it accepted the upload is already baked in and cannot be undone by anyone.

No. The file streams through and is gone; there is no library, no history and nothing to delete afterwards. That is also why we cannot re-send you something you downloaded last week.

The Video downloader for Cbslocal fetches the video stream the platform delivered and writes it as MP4 (H.264 + AAC).

Video downloads from Cbslocal top out at 1080p when the platform served that variant. Lower-resolution fallbacks exist if your IP gets a region-restricted stream.

MP4 (H.264 + AAC) plays in QuickTime, VLC, Windows Media Player, every modern browser, iOS / Android natively. No codec packs required.

Cbslocal serves the Video asset as a public URL. Tikt.com fetches it without ever signing in to your account.

No special tricks. Paste the Cbslocal URL as it appears in your address bar; Tikt.com handles the rest.

No signup. No account. No cookies tied to your Cbslocal identity. Tikt.com doesn't log which Video URL you pasted.

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Tikt.com does not retain downloaded files or log user activity. All media is processed in a stateless pipeline and transmitted directly to the requesting device.

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