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ytclip
Self-hosted YouTube clipper. Source quality. No cloud.
ytclip is a self-hosted web app and CLI for creating clips from YouTube videos — at the highest available quality, without touching a cloud service. Paste a YouTube URL, drag the in/out handles on the embedded player, choose your format, and download. That's it. Everything runs on your own machine.
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Hey PH! 👋 I built ytclip because I kept running into the same problem: I'd find a 90-second moment in a 3-hour YouTube video, and getting that clip at full quality without downloading the whole file or using a sketchy online converter was surprisingly painful. The core insight was combining yt-dlp's DASH segment fetching with ffmpeg's stream-copy mode — you only pull the bytes you actually need, and you don't lose any quality in the trim. For most YouTube videos, that means a fraction of the bandwidth of downloading the full file. I've been using it daily for a few months. It started as a personal tool but I cleaned it up enough to share. Docker, pip, and Homebrew are all available — it's designed to be easy to self-host even if you've never run a server before. Happy to answer any questions in the comments. GitHub is at https://github.com/ZeeshanJan/yt... and the site is at https://ytclip.xyz.
About ytclip on Product Hunt
“Self-hosted YouTube clipper. Source quality. No cloud.”
ytclip was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 4 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #130 on the daily leaderboard. ytclip is a self-hosted web app and CLI for creating clips from YouTube videos — at the highest available quality, without touching a cloud service. Paste a YouTube URL, drag the in/out handles on the embedded player, choose your format, and download. That's it. Everything runs on your own machine.
On the analytics side, ytclip competes within GitHub, YouTube and Video — topics that collectively have 60k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how ytclip performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted ytclip?
ytclip was hunted by Zeeshan Jan. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
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