So there are unassociated downloaders that only claim to be for a specific site like this one is only for [youtube](https://ssyoutube.com/en28/youtube-video-downloader) and this one for [Instagram](https://igram.io/). I haven’t found anything explaining why there can’t just be one site that downloads whatever link you throw at it instead of all these different ones. My best guess is because of compatibility or API issues but I’m not too sure
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Because different sites use different methods of storing their videos and file format.
Youtube and Instagram don’t want you to download the video, because then you don’t go back and watch it. Downloaders work by loading up the webpage, then ripping out the encoded video.
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