ytclip 1.0.8

Command to download a video and cut out a clip.

ytclip

This utility provides a command that will automate downloading files and creating clips out of them.

The utility is user friendly.

It relies on yt-dlp to do the downloading of files and uses static_ffmpeg to do the actual cutting. This stack should be cross platform and should not require elevated permissions to install (yay!).

Install

$ python -m pip install ytclip

Running

$ cd <MY_DIRECTORY>
$ ytclip
Add new video:
  url: ...
  start_timestamp: 08:08
  length: 20
  output_name: my_file

In automation

To use this tool in your command scripts, pass the --once flag like ytclip --once. This allows the tool to only prompt the user once for input. The arguments will need to be passed into the command as stdin. For example something like this for bash:

    (echo 'http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wtIMTCHWuI'; echo '08:59'; echo '15'; echo './myoutput') | ytclip --once

Api

You can also use it as an api:

from ytclip.ytclip import run_download_and_cut

run_download_and_cut(
    url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wtIMTCHWuI",
    start_timestamp="1:10",
    length="20",
    outname="myclip_withoutsuffix")

You can also turn off logging like so:

from ytclip.ytclip import run_download_and_cut, set_logging

set_logging(False)
run_download_and_cut(...)