About Clipyt. Keep just the good part.
Clipyt is a simple YouTube clipping tool for videos and Shorts. Pick the part you want to keep, choose the sound, format and quality, then download your clip.
What Clipyt does
The workflow starts with a YouTube URL. Clipyt reads the video's available metadata and shows a YouTube-hosted preview, then lets you set a start time and an end time. When you begin an export, the server asks its media tools to retrieve the selected range. The normal path does not first save the complete source. Some formats need neighboring segments or keyframe data to make an accurate cut, so network work can extend slightly beyond the timestamps you entered.
You can keep the source sound or make the result silent, and you can choose MP4 or MOV. Standard video and Shorts URLs are supported. Shorts have a vertical preview and are the only mode with a full-download action; both modes support a selected-range export. Clipyt does not select highlights with AI, generate subtitles, publish to social networks, or resize footage for other aspect ratios.
Plans and practical limits
A guest can make 3 clips per UTC day. Signing in with a verified Google email raises that allowance to 10 clips per UTC day. Both free routes cap an individual clip at 120 seconds and quality at 720p. They cost $0. The Pro subscription costs $6 per month, removes the daily clip count, enables best-available quality, and uses a standard maximum clip length of 1,800 seconds. That Pro duration is a server setting, so a particular deployment can configure another maximum.
A requested export can still fail when a video is private, restricted, unavailable in the server's region, or offered in a form that cannot be partially extracted. Quality also depends on formats available from the source. Clipyt does not promise access to every video or an exact output resolution when the source does not provide it. You are responsible for using the service only with content you are allowed to download and use.
How data is handled
Export jobs use temporary local processing space while yt-dlp and FFmpeg prepare the file. When Cloudflare R2 is configured, completed outputs are stored in a private bucket and delivered through expiring signed links; the bucket is not presented as a public media library. Without R2, the development fallback serves a temporary local result. Cleanup rules remove completed, failed, expired, and abandoned job data according to the deployment settings.
The local database stores account, subscription, and daily quota records. Google sign-in links a verified Google identity to your account; Clipyt never asks for your Google password. Signed browser cookies refer to revocable server-side account sessions. Guest limits use a browser session and a keyed hash of the network address to reduce quota bypass; people on a shared network can share the guest allowance. Preview playback remains in YouTube's embedded player; media processing begins when you request an export, not merely when you watch the preview.