Sous Clip – Extract recipes from short-form cooking videos

Name: Sous Clip – Extract recipes from short-form cooking videos
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Author: derpyyy_

by derpyyy_·Mar 5, 2026·3 points·0 comments

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AI Analysis

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Extracts recipes from TikToks/YouTube locally—no cloud, no subscription, just yours.

Strengths

•Full pipeline runs locally (yt-dlp → Whisper → LLM), respects privacy and gives users data control
•Multi-platform support (YouTube, TikTok, Instagram) and Raspberry Pi-friendly Docker deployment
•Clean positioning: free/open alternative to paid services (Viral, Paprika, etc.)

Weaknesses

•Depends on video quality and speech clarity; Whisper transcription will fail on unclear audio
•No evidence of real-world testing; accuracy of extracted recipes unclear from README

Post Description

Greetings HN!

Its my first post here, and I'm delighted to announce a cool self hosted, privacy-focused app I've been working for a while - Sous Clip!

The idea is simple: Share reels/shorts/TikToks to the app, it automatically extracts ingredients, cooking instructions and anything else using an AI provider of your choice (ChatGPT, Claude and Ollama for now, more coming soon!) and stores is locally for ease of access. It also comes with a PWA to easily share reels and access stored recipes through your mobile phone.

From what research I've done, there are applications that already do this, but are paid services and require you to store everything on their servers. This app gives you the freedom to do what you want with this!

Glad to hear feedback and feature requests!

Direct GitHub link - https://github.com/SachinVenugopalan30/sous-clip