LinksConverterUnder the hood
How LinksConverter works
Converter sites tend to be vague about what happens to your file after you hand it over. This page is the specific version: the four stages a job passes through, the limits that are real, and the things that will never work no matter how the link is phrased.
What happens between paste and download
Stage 1
The file arrives
An upload goes straight from your browser to storage using a short-lived signed URL, so the file never sits on a web server waiting to be picked up. A pasted link takes a different route: a fetcher resolves it, works out what media is actually behind it, and pulls the original stream rather than a re-encoded copy from a third party.
Stage 2
It gets scanned
Every file up to 2 GB — uploaded or fetched — is scanned with ClamAV before it is converted, except video and audio over 1 GB, which skip the scan because it takes too long. A video or audio result over 1 GB, or one whose scan runs out of time, is rebuilt by our converter from its video and audio streams — nothing else from the source is carried over — and delivered without a scan, and the download page says so right next to the button (ClamAV cannot read 2 GB or more at all). Files that fail the scan are destroyed immediately and the job is failed with an explanation. Any other kind of file over 2 GB is held back.
Stage 3
A worker converts it
Conversion happens in an isolated worker process, not in the web application. Media goes through ffmpeg; downloads go through yt-dlp; documents, images and 3D meshes each have their own toolchain. Documents and images have their own queue, which is why they usually finish in seconds even when the site is busy.
Stage 4
You get a private link
The result is served through a link that works for anyone who has it until the file is deleted, so treat it like the file itself. Two hours after conversion (six for a result over 2 GB, a day for a job started with a Pro pass) the file is due for deletion, and a cleanup that runs every 15 minutes purges it from storage permanently — not archived, not moved to cold storage. The one exception is a failed job you ask us to retry by email: its file is kept up to seven days for that. There is no backup to restore from, which is exactly the point.
Limits, logging and refusals
Size and rate
Single files up to 2 GB, or 4 GB once you are signed in, which covers long and high-resolution video. Results up to 5 GB are delivered (10 GB with a Pro pass); over 2 GB that means video and audio only, rebuilt and unscanned as described above, and kept six hours instead of two so a slow connection can finish. Without a Pro pass, signed in or not, you get 60 requests an hour: about 20 conversions from the home page, which checks each link first (two or three requests per conversion), or up to 60 from a single-format converter page. When one address converts a lot in an hour without signing in, its later jobs wait behind other people's first ones, for up to about ten minutes. No email, no watermark, and nothing you need to buy — an optional Pro pass, when offered, raises the limits (requests, links per batch, upload size, how long files are kept), and everything on this page stays free.
What we log
File contents are never logged or read. A job keeps the link you pasted for a week, then only its site, and never your IP address; the application logs, which record links too, are kept about a week. The server's access logs keep IP addresses for up to 30 days, with any link in a page address blanked. The privacy policy lists all of it.
What will never work
DRM-protected streaming services — Netflix, Prime Video, Disney+ and the like — are blocked deliberately, because bypassing DRM is illegal in most countries. Private accounts, follower-only posts and paid memberships are also out of reach: if a link needs someone else’s login to view, it will not download.
Why two hours, specifically
Long enough that a slow connection, a paused download or a closed tab does not cost you the conversion. Short enough that there is no archive of other people's files sitting on a server, which is the thing that makes converter sites worth worrying about in the first place.
The trade-off is real and it cuts against us as often as it helps: if you come back the next day, the file is gone and we cannot get it back. Running the conversion again is free, so the honest answer is usually just to paste the link a second time.
If you want something removed before the two hours are up, email [email protected] with the job link and it will be purged.