Download videos from Yandex Video (yandex.ru/video) by link

Download videos from Yandex Video (yandex.ru/video) by link

“Download a video from Yandex” is a tricky request, because Yandex has no video hosting of its own in the usual sense. Yandex Video (yandex.ru/video) is a search engine and aggregator: it finds videos on Dzen, VK Video, Rutube, YouTube and dozens of other sites and plays them inside its own player. That is why most downloaders simply give up on a yandex.ru/video/preview link. Skachok can handle it in beta: we try to identify the original source and pull the file from there. When that works, you get an MP4 in the same quality as on the source platform — up to 720p for free and 1080p on a paid plan. When it doesn’t, there is a reliable workaround, described below.

The dependable way to download any video from Yandex Video is to take the link to its source. Below the player Yandex always shows where the video comes from and offers a “Watch on …” button: click it, copy the address of the page that opens and paste it into Skachok. Dzen, VK Video, Rutube, YouTube, Odnoklassniki — all of them are supported directly, with no beta and no surprises. The same principle answers the question “how do I download a video from Yandex Browser”: the browser only displays the page, while the video lives on the site whose address is in the bar at the top. Copy it — and no extensions, plugins or programs are needed on either your computer or your phone.

What you get. For free: MP4 up to 720p, 5 downloads a day (3 without an account), up to 3 links at a time and an 8-second timer before the download. The Lite plan at $1.99/mo unlocks 1080p and MP3 audio; signing up gives you 2 days of Pro for free. Files are not stored on the server — the video is fetched on your request and handed straight to you. What Skachok does not do: it doesn’t download from Yandex Disk (a file storage service) or Kinopoisk (protected paid content), and it doesn’t bypass closed or private videos. Everything else — videos from Dzen, VK Clips, Rutube and YouTube found through Yandex — downloads from a single link: “Find”, pick a quality, “Download”.