Media Mutt

Download Photos and Videos from Anywhere

Description

Media Mutt

Download Photos and Videos from Anywhere

Media Mutt is you all-in-one downloader for media pages on the web. It supports the most popular photo and video sharing sites and can support more with the help of addons.

The best feature? It doesn't use third-party websites to download. Everything is done within the shortcut (1).

1 Fine Print: Techinically, it does use a third-party website to combine audio and video for websites that stream them separately (Reddit, looking at you). Everything else happens within the shortcut.

IOS 12

For those who are still in iOS12, get it here.

Supported Media Pages

Youtube videos • Instagram Posts • Reddit Posts Tumblr Posts • Imgur • Gfycat • Streamable

Addons

Creating Addons

If you are interested in authoring addons, check out the authoring guide.

Screenshots

Main Menu, Settings, Addons Translations

Credits

I wouldn't have been able to build this complex shortcut without ScPL.
Icons from: https://fontawesome.com/ courtesy of @atnbueno over at Discord
YouTube Downloading method - https://tyrrrz.me/Blog/Reverse-engineering-YouTube
Audio/Video merging: http://www.fileconverto.com/add-music-to-video/

Unsupported

Protected Youtube videos such as music videos
Private Instagram Profiles

Latest Release Notes

2.1.2 - Oct. 18, 2019, 2:44 a.m.

(fix) 404 error when downloading Reddit videos with audio

Past versions

Feedback

@dastefster

just installed this the other day & it's been great so far! Quick question: for youtube vids, does the Shortcut automatically download the highest quality available or is it fixed?
Reply · 1 year ago

@supermamon Member Author

It downloads the highest quality up to 720p. Anything higher, the video and audio streams are separated. I'll work on downloading those on a later version.
Reply · 1 year ago

@FishyDP

For me, the saved videos are around 640 x 360 even though the highest quality is 1080P or 4K.
Reply · 9 months ago

@Raydric

In my opinion you should change the "Always Save To Files" to "Always Save To Photo Album". Also Instagram addon doesn't work when I want to download all posts. It just downloads the first photo of public profile.
Reply · 1 year ago

@supermamon Member Author

You can now download version 1.3.0 with the `Save To` option. You can select to save either to Files or Photo Album. I've also updated the `Go Fetch From Instagram Profile` addon to use the `Save To` setting.
Reply · 1 year ago

@Prominx

Keeps on telling me it failed because it couldn’t convert numbers to dictionary
Reply · 12 months ago

@dmodave

For some reason I cannot download this whatsoever on my iPhone XR on iOS 12.4. I'd love to be able to use this.
Reply · 11 months, 2 weeks ago

@Devilmashine

Hi, did U planning for adding language settings in shortcut? We want to translate it for russian users, but afraid that we need to translate every version in future, and this is a lot of work...
Reply · 11 months ago

@supermamon Member Author

Language support is planned on version 1.6.0.
Reply · 11 months ago

@supermamon Member Author

Hi, I just updated this for IOS13 but no translations yet. Would you mind doing Russian translation for me? I'll send you a text file of the text that need to be translated.
Reply · 10 months, 2 weeks ago

@Devilmashine

Yes, send it!
Reply · 10 months, 2 weeks ago

@supermamon Member Author

Thank you. Please download the translation file here -> https://raw.githubusercontent.com/supermamon/shortcuts/sc-media-mutt/MediaMutt/translations/English.json
Reply · 10 months, 2 weeks ago

@Devilmashine

https://www.dropbox.com/s/p13rfssz15wqo1v/Russian.json?dl=1
Reply · 10 months, 1 week ago

@iAmRenzo

Great add-on. But two things: 1. Could you add the settings file in a subfolder, instead of the downloads? 2. Can you add the 9Gag app? It's difficult to save the media to the files app. I hope that this app will keep downloading Reddit content, as Reddit Downloader didn't!
Reply · 10 months, 2 weeks ago

@supermamon Member Author

The settings file is in /MediaMutt not in downloads. The downloads are in /MediaMutt/downloads.
Reply · 10 months, 2 weeks ago

@iAmRenzo

Yes. It would be nicer if the downloads were in /mediamutt/ and the settings in /mediamutt/settings/ When I pull the downloaded files they are right in sight. The settings I will never need. In a sunflower they are save and out of view.
Reply · 10 months, 2 weeks ago

@supermamon Member Author

Coming soon with v2.1.0
Reply · 10 months ago

@i.loops

So I install this so no errors thanks for me install this hearted
Reply · 10 months, 2 weeks ago

@alterh

FB and IG not working at all in 13.1.1
Reply · 10 months, 2 weeks ago

@emarrosu

Great shortcut! Is there anyway to change the download folder? Something besides iCloud or Dropbox? I usually download YouTube videos using the app Documents, and I have them all stored in the same app, is there anyway to reroute the download location? And another thing, would it be ever possible to download a playlist from YouTube instead of one by one?
Reply · 10 months, 1 week ago

@Skepticalme

Thanks for your efforts, this looks great. I'm trying to download a GIF from the Reddit App on iOS 13.1.2 2018 iPad Pro 11 a file can only be downloaded to iCloud Drive but the file is not viewable, I cannot see how to just save the GIF to my Photos App. Am I doing something wrong?
Reply · 10 months, 1 week ago

@supermamon Member Author

You you mind sending at least one post that you're trying? Tried it right now and it works fine. With regards to saving, depending on the "Save To" setting, you can either set it to save to Photos or Files, or ask you where everytime.
Reply · 10 months, 1 week ago

@supermamon Member Author

The GIF download issue should now be fixed on version 2.0.7
Reply · 10 months ago

@Skepticalme

Thanks, mate. Greatly appreciated.
Reply · 10 months ago

@funkotron77

I'm sorry for being slow and stupid but I'm lost on how to use this. I open it up from Shortcuts and all I get is the menu from the 1st screenshot. I know I'm missing something really obvious but I cannot get this to work for the life of me. I've registered the Instagram Fetch. :(
Reply · 10 months, 1 week ago

@supermamon Member Author

You can use it 2 ways. First via the share sheet by sharing the URL to it. Another is copy the URL. then run the shortcut. In both cases, you see and extra menu item on top of the list labeled Download with the url at the bottom of it.
Reply · 10 months, 1 week ago

@funkotron77

Hey thanks pal! I appreciate you spelling it out for dummies like me. :) Hopefully it helps somebody else too.
Reply · 10 months ago

@sT2sZ

Hi, love the Shortcut. One issue. IOS 13.1.2 From YouTube app, I hit share and select the shortcut and it crashes or drops back to my youtube app, I then have to do the same and it will take and start properly. Does it every time, very repeatable. I can send you a screen video if you like. thanks!
Reply · 10 months ago

@sT2sZ

Request? Also, I mainly use it to share videos with my kids to their IOS shared Albums and if the video is over 15 min, it won't allow me to share. I have to go and break it into short vids or trim to less than 15 min. Would be really cool if there this shortcut would break up the longer video into Part 1, Part 2, etc. Easy to do?? thanks for a great shortcut!
Reply · 10 months ago

@sT2sZ

Another request, adding to the above, could you make the it so it downloads directly to Shared Albums (menu to pick which shared album)? I think this would be super helpful to not just me, but most people that share with family members via icloud shared albums.
Reply · 10 months ago

@[email protected]

great shortcut, but need twitter media download. and will be great not only save media but share or preview media without save on phone/ thanks!
Reply · 10 months ago

@supermamon Member Author

I'm still working on Twitter media download. There is a "Preview Before Saving" setting that you can turn on. In the Preview, there is a share button that you can use to share.
Reply · 10 months ago

@supermamon Member Author

It took a very long while but if you're still using, Twitter addon is here - https://routinehub.co/shortcut/3939
Reply · 3 months ago

@Damian

Is it possible to save media to a specific photoalbum?
Reply · 10 months ago

@efthymis

Just updated to 2.1.0 and followed the steps again to set it up. Now when I share links to Mediamutt it keeps asking to continue the setup process, I hit next, then says setup complete, then crashes without downloading anything.
Reply · 9 months, 4 weeks ago

@supermamon Member Author

Just released 2.1.1. I brought back the behaviour to run in the the Shortcuts app to stop the crash.
Reply · 9 months, 4 weeks ago

@Proteiina

The dowload sgows 404 not found please help
Reply · 9 months, 3 weeks ago

@Mahler

when attempting video download I get error message ”cannot convert numbers to dictionary”
Reply · 9 months, 3 weeks ago

@supermamon Member Author

Could you let me know where are you downloading from and if possible, provide the URL you're attempting to download?
Reply · 9 months, 3 weeks ago

@Skepticalme

I'm not sure if this Shortcut can download from Twitter but I ran into an issue https://i.imgur.com/7JFIrK7.png
Reply · 9 months, 1 week ago

@FishyDP

I’m getting a prompt “Media Mutt would like to access ...—.googlevideo.com...” every time I download a YouTube video. Is there any way to disable this or is this security prompt unable to be hidden because Media Mutt needs access to each video’s URL? Great shortcut by the way, completely amazing.
Reply · 9 months ago

@supermamon Member Author

Unfortunately no. Shortcuts ask once for every subdomain and knowing google, they probably have hundreds or maybe thousands of subdomains for hosting stuff.
Reply · 9 months ago

@Mncfre

It can’t be open from the widgets, it crash, I have to open it directly on the shortcuts app
Reply · 9 months ago

@Vegon

Doesn't works right now, it says "can't open file "media_mutt.json"".
Reply · 8 months ago

@electricmilk

This worked for a short time for downloading videos from gfycat, but this no longer works. Any plans to fix this?
Reply · 6 months, 1 week ago

@zealous_ninja

Thank you so much for this shortcut..
Reply · 6 months ago

@Tweak

Is it possible to change the quality of video? I’m trying to download videos, but resolution is 360p for all of it
Reply · 5 months, 3 weeks ago

@tyler

Thank you!!
Reply · 4 months ago

@Huzzyz

Been crashing on gyfcat tried multiple gifs. Any help would be appreciated.
Reply · 3 months ago

@Wesmosis

Thanks!
Reply · 2 months, 2 weeks ago

@edwinriverahn

I got a problem all youtube videos show me the error “Asegúrate de pasar una URL válida a la acción “obtener contenido de URL”, ¿Como solucionó eso?
Reply · 2 months, 1 week ago

@...

Downloads is spelt incorrectly in the menu (see first screenshot above). Is it possible to correct this?
Reply · 1 month, 3 weeks ago

@Arsh_Gujral

Can we download youtube mp4 videos into mp3 via media mutt??if not so please upgrade it. And would make it really helpfull.btw best shortcut for downloading mp4 videos from youtube
Reply · 1 month, 2 weeks ago

@8isnothing

Hey man! Not being able to download GIFs from Reddit app.
Reply · 1 week ago