ReClip - Self-Hosted Video Downloader
Self-hosted, open-source video/audio downloader with a clean web UI — a thin yt-dlp front-end that replaces ad-heavy third-party download sites.
What it is (compiled)
ReClip (averygan/reclip, ~6,100 stars, MIT) is a self-hosted media downloader. Paste one or more links from YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, Twitter/X, Reddit, Vimeo, Twitch, and 1000+ other sites; download as MP4 (video) or MP3 (audio) with a resolution/quality picker, bulk paste, and automatic URL deduplication. Source: GitHub averygan/reclip, https://github.com/averygan/reclip, 2026-06-13
It is deliberately minimal: a single ~150-line Python + Flask backend, a single vanilla HTML/CSS/JS frontend with no framework and no build step, and exactly two dependencies (Flask, yt-dlp). The actual download/extraction work is delegated to yt-dlp + ffmpeg — ReClip is the web wrapper, not the engine. Run via ./reclip.sh on http://localhost:8899, or docker run -p 8899:8899 reclip. Source: GitHub averygan/reclip, https://github.com/averygan/reclip, 2026-06-13
Supported sites are exactly the yt-dlp supported-sites list. The README scopes it to personal use and respect for platform terms. Source: GitHub averygan/reclip, https://github.com/averygan/reclip, 2026-06-13
Current Source Snapshot
As of 2026-07-03, averygan/reclip is still active on main at 04d7b7bdc78d9bbf930238f2a26247f00d625e6c, MIT licensed, with 6,252 stars and 1,118 forks. No public tag refs were returned by git ls-remote. The reviewed artifact image shows the README plus embedded 5-second preview UI: paste URLs, choose MP4 or MP3, fetch, then download, with Python 3.8+ and MIT badges visible. Source: GitHub API, git ls-remote, README, and local media artifact, 2026-07-03
Signal
Strong "save for later" demand — ~20,000 bookmarks on the launch tweet (one of the highest in the bookmark corpus). Like counts captured at different times disagree (7,137 vs 13,378); the stable signal is the bookmark count. Source: X/@socialwithaayan, 2026-04-09
Stack fit (Kevin) — low priority
- Media archival, not the dev loop. This is a personal-use downloader; it does not touch the Dedalus / Agent Machines or kevin-wiki harness work. Treat as a utility, not infrastructure.
- Overlaps Security and Review Skills. Kevin's research stack already shells
yt-dlpdirectly (YouTube transcripts, podcast capture). ReClip's marginal value over that is a batch GUI — useful for a human, redundant for an agent. - Clean Frontend and Design Skills exemplar. ~150 lines, 2 deps, no build step, one job — a good reference for "smallest correct version" when bootstrapping a throwaway internal tool.
Timeline
- 2026-06-13 | Quality remediation: pinned to
averygan/reclip(~6.1k★, MIT); confirmed Python/Flask + yt-dlp + ffmpeg stack (~150 LOC, 2 deps,:8899); added honest low-priority stack-fit. Source: https://github.com/averygan/reclip - 2026-07-03 | Deep-reviewed the local artifact and refreshed source status:
averygan/reclipat HEAD04d7b7b, 6,252 stars, 1,118 forks, MIT, no public tags. Preserved the README/preview image as local artifact evidence. Source: X/@socialwithaayan and GitHub, 2026-07-03 - 2026-04-09 | ReClip shared on X by @socialwithaayan. 7,137 likes, 19,987 bookmarks (#14 in corpus). Source: X/@socialwithaayan, 2026-04-09
- 2026-05-17 | Added to wiki tool registry. Source: X bookmark absorption, 2026-05-17
- 2026-06-12 | Top-25 absorption refreshed canonical status URL. Source: x-bookmark-absorb, 2026-06-12