My friends keep sharing video links from all social media, and I really don’t want to download tiktok, Instagram, Facebook,…
is there an app that will open those links and show me the video? also given that some of those apps require an account.
My friends keep sharing video links from all social media, and I really don’t want to download tiktok, Instagram, Facebook,…
is there an app that will open those links and show me the video? also given that some of those apps require an account.
Dunno app, but for Instagram, I had found the site https://imginn.com/, which acts as a frontend for it, similar as Nitter for Twitter. Just not FOSS, in case it’s a problem for you. Instagram videos you should also be able to download with yt-dlp.
Also, dunno if it’s working as I very rarely consume shorts-type videos, but for TikTok, maybe Grayjay’s an option? Also regarding Grayjay, it has a few more sources, both from FUTO and the community, as listed here.
Facebook I vaguely remember having seen mentions of a frontend similar to Nitter / Imginn but can’t remember if I’m misremembering.
Other solutions depend on the respective sites. Bluesky for example there’s RSS, embedded, fixed embeddeds and Skyview. DeviantArt and Imgur you can somewhat circumvent issues with embeddeds. Posts from fediverse sites with bad UI you can circumvent by pulling the link into your preferred instance’s search. And so on.