Snapchat Video Downloader for Stories and Spotlight
Save the stories and Spotlight videos of a public Snapchat profile to your computer - videos and photos alike, a whole profile in one run. No Snapchat account is needed. Every file arrives as Snapchat shows it on its website, in a folder named after the profile.
Snapchat Video Saver vs Memories and Online Tools
Memories, a screen recording, an online tool
- Memories keeps your own Snaps; other people's stories stay in the app
- Each Snap of a story of the day is gone 24 hours after it was added
- An online tool takes one Snap's address at a time
- A screen recording is a copy of the screen, made in real time
NeoDownloader
- The stories and Spotlight videos of any public profile
- Today's story on your computer while its ring is still there
- One profile's address brings everything its page shows
- The files themselves, as Snapchat shows them - photos stay photos
How to Download Snapchat Videos and Stories
Snapchat gives visitors no download button: Memories saves only your own Snaps. For the stories, Spotlight videos and photos of a public profile, three steps:
One-time setup: download NeoDownloader and install it. It is available for Windows, macOS and Linux. The steps below are what you repeat each time.
- 1Snapchatsnapchat.com/@nasa
Copy the Snapchat Address
Open the profile on snapchat.com in your browser and copy its address - snapchat.com/@ and the profile's name. For the story of the day, click the ring around the profile picture and copy the address the story opens at. More profiles? Copy each address in turn.
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ProjectsNew projectWhat do you want to download?
snapchat.com/@nasa
NextPaste It into NeoDownloader
Click New project, and the address you copied is already in the wizard's field; add more below it, one per line. After Next the wizard picks the Gallery Downloader plugin for any Snapchat address.
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Name and folder
nasa
Create projectSave the Snaps
Check where the files should go and click Create project. Snapchat asks for no sign-in: photos come as JPEG pictures, videos as MP4 files, all into a folder named after the profile.
Snapchat Story Saver: Keep Today's Story Before It Expires
A public profile shows two kinds of stories. The story of the day opens from the ring around the profile picture, and each of its Snaps disappears 24 hours after it was added. Saved stories sit in the profile's Stories tab under the titles their owner gave them, and stay until the owner removes them.
Paste the profile's address, and NeoDownloader takes every saved story and every Spotlight video the page shows, with the profile picture. For the story of the day, paste the address it opens at: its Snaps come down in their order, photos and videos alike.
Once a story of the day has expired, nobody can fetch it any more - NeoDownloader included. Save it while the ring is still around the picture.
Snapchat Spotlight Downloader: Every Spotlight Video of a Profile
Spotlight is Snapchat's feed of short videos, and a public profile keeps its own in its Spotlight tab. The profile's address brings them all along with its stories; a single Spotlight video downloads from its own address.
Videos come at the size Snapchat plays them on its website. Spotlight videos carry the Snapchat ghost and the creator's name, as the site shows them: NeoDownloader saves what Snapchat plays and removes nothing. Stories have no such mark.
The Lenses on a profile are camera effects rather than pictures, so they stay on Snapchat.
Which Snapchat Addresses NeoDownloader Takes
- A public profile - snapchat.com/@ and its name, as in the address bar or typed without https://; the older snapchat.com/add/ and the name works too
- The story of the day - the address the browser shows once the story is open: the profile's address and the story's code
- A saved story - snapchat.com/@, the profile's name and /highlight/…
- A Spotlight video - snapchat.com/spotlight/… or the same after the profile's address
- Several of them - one address per line, together in one project
Snapchat Profile Downloader: What You Get
Photos and videos of a profile, and a way back to every Snap
Snapchat Photo Downloader Too
Stories mix photos and videos, and both come down: the photos as JPEG pictures, the videos as MP4 files, side by side in the profile's folder.
A Folder for Each Profile
Everything from a profile lands in a folder named after it, so a project of several profiles sorts itself.
Back to Snapchat from Any File
“Found on” in a file's properties holds the Snapchat page it came from, and “Open on the site” opens it there.
Profiles That Keep Up
Run a profile's project again, and NeoDownloader fetches only the stories and Spotlight videos added since the last run.
Questions About Downloading from Snapchat
Is there a free Snapchat downloader?
NeoDownloader is a free desktop program that downloads the stories, Spotlight videos and photos of public Snapchat profiles. The free version has no time limit; Premium lifts its limits on the number of files per project.
How do I download Snapchat videos?
Copy the address of a public profile or of a single Spotlight video, click “New project” in NeoDownloader, paste it and click “Next”, then “Create project”. The videos come down as MP4 files into a folder named after the profile.
How do I save Snapchat stories?
Paste a public profile's address to take all of its saved stories at once. For the story of the day, click the ring around the profile picture on snapchat.com and paste the address the story opens at - before 24 hours pass.
How do I save someone's Snapchat story?
If their profile is public, the same way: paste the address of their profile or of their story of the day. Stories shared only with friends are not on snapchat.com, and NeoDownloader does not sign in to Snapchat, so it cannot reach them.
Does Snapchat have a download button?
Only for your own Snaps: the app saves them to Memories, and your own Spotlight videos can be saved from your profile. A visitor on snapchat.com gets no download button for anyone's stories or Spotlight.
Is there a Snapchat video downloader without watermark?
NeoDownloader saves the videos as Snapchat plays them and adds or removes nothing. Story videos have no mark. Spotlight videos carry the Snapchat ghost and the creator's name on the site itself, and keep them.
Can I download Snapchat Spotlight videos?
Yes. A public profile's address brings all the Spotlight videos its page shows, and a single one downloads from its own address - snapchat.com/spotlight/ and its code.
What quality are downloaded Snapchat videos?
The quality Snapchat plays them in on its website, which is sized for a phone screen rather than HD. NeoDownloader does not re-encode them, so nothing is lost on the way.
Can I download a whole Snapchat profile?
Yes - everything its page on snapchat.com shows: the saved stories, the Spotlight videos and the profile picture. On the free version a large profile stops at the limit on files per project; Premium lifts it.
Do I need a Snapchat account?
No. NeoDownloader reads public profiles the way snapchat.com shows them to anyone, without signing in. Private accounts are out of its reach.
Can I download photos from Snapchat?
Yes. The photos in a profile's stories come down as JPEG pictures, next to the videos, in the same folder.
Save Snapchat Stories in One Run
Paste a public profile's address and let NeoDownloader do the rest. The free version has no time limit.
Available for Windows, macOS and Linux