Rescue recipes
from the feed.

Sous Clip converts YouTube Shorts, Instagram Reels, and TikTok cooking videos into clean, structured recipes. Stored on your own server or synced directly to Mealie. Forever yours.

Self-hosted Mealie sync Open source
sous-clip pipeline
Download yt-dlp
Transcribe Whisper
Extract LLM
Saved SQLite

You're scrolling. A recipe catches your eye - perfectly caramelized, effortlessly plated. You think, "I'll make that this weekend."

You screenshot. You bookmark. You forget.

And the cloud apps that promise to help? They want your data, your subscription, and your trust that they'll still exist next year. Your recipes deserve better than that.

How it works

01

Paste a link

Drop any cooking video URL - YouTube, Instagram, TikTok. Sous Clip handles the rest.

02

AI does the work

The video is downloaded, transcribed with Whisper, and parsed by an LLM into a structured recipe.

03

Recipe, saved

Title, ingredients, steps, and timings stored in your local library. Push to Mealie with one click or keep it entirely on your server.

Everything you need,
nothing you don't.

Multi-platform support

YouTube Shorts, Instagram Reels, TikTok. If yt-dlp can download it, Sous Clip can extract a recipe from it.

Local Whisper transcription

On-device speech-to-text with OpenAI Whisper. Accurate even with background music, and no audio ever leaves your server.

Mealie integration

Push extracted recipes directly to your self-hosted Mealie instance. No copy-pasting, no friction. mealie.io ↗

Export and share

Copy recipes as Markdown or share a direct link. Clean, structured formatting every time.

Personal recipe library

Browse, search, and filter your collection. Every recipe stored locally in SQLite with no cloud sync required.

Docker-ready self-hosting

One command to deploy. Runs on a Raspberry Pi, a Synology NAS, or any machine with Docker.

From video to recipe
in one pipeline.

Every step runs locally on your machine. No data leaves your network.

Video URL Paste link
Audio yt-dlp download
Transcript Whisper STT
Recipe LLM extraction

Built for people who believe their data is theirs.

Sous Clip stores everything in a local SQLite file. No accounts, no telemetry, no cloud dependency. Your recipes live on your hardware under your control. Optionally push to Mealie for a richer recipe management experience.

Run it on a Raspberry Pi, a Synology NAS, or the old laptop in your closet. If it runs Docker, it runs Sous Clip.

terminal
# Clone the repo
git clone https://github.com/SachinVenugopalan30/sous-clip.git
cd sous-clip

# Start with Docker
docker compose up -d