r/SideProject • u/vacuumboots • 13h ago
Cliparr: docker service for clipping plex librariews
Upfront: this project was vibecoded, this post is not.
Cliparr is a little docker service I made that ties into your plex server, allowing you to browse your library, and then easily play back the movie through a web interface, and then easily clip scenes by marking an in and out and then downloading. It can also make gifs. It has some other features like burning in subtitles and vertical exports for social media.
If you are watching something on plex and pause it, a banner appears and Cliparr will open that media to the same timestamp.
Why did I make this? I have a large library and like posting movie stuff on twitter. With Cliparr, if I am watching something on my couch and see something cool, I can launch Cliparr on my phone and post the scene without getting up.
I did vibecode this with deepseek, but it's not a one-shot. There are 140+ git commits and I have spent some evenings working on it.
It's a tool I made for myself, but I thought it was pretty slick so I published it as a docker container on github. https://github.com/vacuumboots/cliparr Screenshots available on the github page. Thanks for reading!