What is glink?

Glink is a tool that strips watermarks from short videos on platforms like Douyin, Kuaishou, TikTok, Pipixia, Huoshan, Kaiyan, Momo, Weibo, and many others. You paste a video share link, and it gives you a direct download link to the video file without the platform's watermark or branding overlay. The way it works is straightforward from a user's perspective: you take the share URL from any of the supported apps and feed it into Glink's web interface or desktop client. The backend then processes that link, extracts the underlying video file, and presents you with a clean download link. The project is built with Go for the backend and Vue for the web frontend, and it can run either as an online web service or as a standalone desktop application for Windows and macOS. The primary audience is people who frequently download and repost short videos across different platforms. For example, a social media manager who needs to move a viral clip from Douyin to another platform without the original app's watermark would find this useful. Content creators, video editors, and anyone building compilations or repurposing clips across the Chinese short-video ecosystem would benefit from having a quick way to grab clean source files. The project supports over a dozen platforms, which is notable given that each app structures its share links differently. The README doesn't go into detail about the specific extraction method or how it handles each platform's anti-scraping measures, but it does list all the supported link formats so you can verify compatibility before diving in. The README also points to a detailed tutorial on the author's blog for setup instructions.