# XDL — Extended Documentation

> Machine-readable reference for AI assistants, crawlers, and automated agents.

## Service overview

**Name:** XDL
**URL:** https://xdl.to/
**Type:** Web application (static frontend + remote processing API)
**Cost:** Free, no account required
**Language:** English

Download X (Twitter) videos as MP4, extract audio as MP3, or save screenshots. Fast, free, no signup.

## User workflow

The homepage contains only the downloader interface: a URL input, format selector (MP4 / MP3 / Screenshot), and download controls. No signup or installation is required.

### Step-by-step

1. User pastes an X (Twitter) post URL containing video media.
2. User selects output type:
   - **MP4** — video file
   - **MP3** — audio extraction
   - **Screenshot** — thumbnail image from the video
3. The site validates the URL, starts a background download job, and polls until complete.
4. User receives a preview and download link for the finished file.

## Technical notes

- Processing API: https://api.x-downloader.com
- The frontend is a static site; media is fetched server-side and delivered via CDN URLs.
- Cached results may return instantly for repeated requests of the same URL and format.

## Supported platforms

Primary support is for **X (Twitter)** status and broadcast URLs. Unsupported or blocked domains are rejected at validation.

## Legal pages

- Privacy: https://xdl.to/privacy/
- Terms: https://xdl.to/terms/

## Contact

- Privacy: privacy@xdl.to
- Legal: legal@xdl.to

## Crawling hints

- Homepage is intentionally minimal (logo, h1, form only) for UX and SEO testing.
- Use this file and JSON-LD structured data on the homepage for full context.
- `llms.txt` contains a shorter summary.