Terms of Use

1. What ClipVault is

ClipVault is a web front-end to yt-dlp and ffmpeg, which run on our own server. When you submit a link we ask the source platform which formats it is offering publicly, fetch the one you pick, merge the video and audio tracks when the platform serves them separately, and stream the result to your browser.

We do not host, store, mirror or index any media. We are not affiliated with YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, X, Facebook, Niconico, SoundCloud, Dailymotion or Streamable, and we cannot change what any of them serves.

2. Download only what you have the right to use

This is the core rule. You may use ClipVault only for content you are entitled to download — your own uploads, material released under a licence that permits it, works in the public domain, or content you have the rightsholder's permission to save.

Downloading a file does not grant you any right to it. Copyright in the content stays with its owner, and the source platform's own terms also apply to what you do with it. You are responsible for both.

3. Prohibited uses

You must not use ClipVault to:

• infringe anyone's copyright, trademark or other rights, or download content you have no right to;
• run bulk or automated extraction — scrapers, crawlers, bots, scripts or download farms that hammer the endpoint instead of using the page as a person would;
• get around a paywall, a login wall, a geographic restriction, DRM or any other access control, or reach non-public, private or members-only material;
• resell, sublicense or disguise the service as your own download API;
• distribute malware or illegal material, harass anyone, or otherwise break the law;
• attack, overload, probe or attempt to break the service, its host or its network.

4. Availability and download limits

The service is provided free of charge and on a best-effort basis. The current operating limits are:

• Download count: unlimited. There is no daily cap, no hourly cap and no credit balance to spend.
• Simultaneous downloads: two at a time across the whole service, and one at a time per IP address. A second concurrent request is refused with a "busy" response rather than queued, so simply try again when the first download finishes.

These numbers are sized to the single machine this runs on and may change. We may also limit, suspend or withdraw access where the limits in section 3 are abused. A download can fail for reasons outside our control — a platform change, a deleted video, a regional block — and that is not a defect we can promise to fix on any timetable.

5. No warranty

The service is provided "as is" and "as available", without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, accuracy and non-infringement. We do not warrant that the site will be up, that any particular platform will work, that a format will be offered, or that a downloaded file will be complete or playable.

6. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, ClipVault is not liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages, nor for any loss of data, profit, revenue or goodwill, arising from your use of — or inability to use — the service, or from anything you downloaded with it. That includes claims brought by a third party over content you chose to download. Where liability cannot be excluded, it is limited to the amount you paid to use the service, which is zero.

7. Copyright complaints

If you believe content has been made available through ClipVault in a way that infringes your rights, do not use the general contact form — follow the DMCA / copyright process. Notices that include the required elements are acted on promptly.

8. Changes to these terms

These terms may be updated as the service changes. The effective date above is always the date of the current version; if you keep using the site after a change, the updated terms apply.

9. Contact

Questions about these terms: [email protected].