Clippa

Desktop YouTube clipper built with Tauri + React. It downloads trimmed segments with yt-dlp, saves them to a local library, and lets you replay, open, or delete clips from inside the app.

Prerequisites

• Node.js 18+ and pnpm (corepack enable or npm i -g pnpm)
• Rust toolchain (rustup), needed by Tauri
• System tools: yt-dlp and ffmpeg available on your $PATH (macOS/Homebrew: brew install yt-dlp ffmpeg)

Install

pnpm install

This pulls front-end deps and the Tauri CLI.

Run the app (development)

pnpm tauri dev

This starts Vite and the Tauri shell, opening the desktop window with hot reload.

Build a release bundle

pnpm tauri build

The native binaries/installer are emitted under src-tauri/target (git-ignored).

Data & clips

• Clips and a small SQLite DB are stored under your OS local data directory in Clippa/ (for example ~/Library/Application Support/Clippa on macOS, ~/.local/share/Clippa on Linux, %LOCALAPPDATA%\\Clippa on Windows).
• Ensure yt-dlp and ffmpeg stay installed; the app shells out to them for downloads and merging.