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Zhnyva — a clip farm that runs itself

A clip farm on a server: it walks the clip-campaign marketplaces itself, picks the moments with a model, cuts them with subtitles and hands over a batch to publish, already marked as an ad.

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Zhnyva — a clip farm that runs itself

What it is

Clip campaigns are a marketplace of their own: an advertiser pays for short clips cut out of their streams and videos, and pays by the views. The manual work is the same as in editing — watch hours of recording, find the moments, cut, subtitle, publish. The difference is that here it is pointless: this is not craft, it is a search.

A service on the server runs that loop every 15 minutes: it walks two marketplaces, pulls the source material, gives it to a model that marks the strong passages, cuts what was marked, builds the subtitles and stacks a finished batch ready to post. The “ad” label is set before publishing, not after: without it, paid clips break the rules of every platform involved, and on the day an account is banned the whole farm is worth nothing at once.

Specifications: Python, yt-dlp and ffmpeg for the cutting, Groq for choosing the moments, systemd as the service watchdog, and a Telegram chat for everything the owner touches. It lives on a server rather than a laptop, and that was learned the expensive way: a laptop sleeps, and a farm that sleeps most of the day is not a farm. It carries 332 of its own checks, including a lock of 52 deliberate breakages: each one verifies that the service fails where it is supposed to fail.

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