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By op7418

youtube-clipper

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Turn long YouTube videos into polished bilingual clips.

video editing

What it does

Turns YouTube videos into selected short clips with semantic chapters, optional bilingual subtitles, burned captions, and social-media summaries.

When to use it

Use when the user wants to clip a YouTube video, create short segments, or make a bilingual-subtitle version.

How to use it

Give it a YouTube URL; it downloads and analyzes the video, asks which chapters and treatments to use, and saves the resulting media and companion files.

What you provide

  • a YouTube URL

Uses


Access · 6

This skill

translation API

Write

Sends subtitles to a translation API

YouTube

Read

Downloads video and subtitles

youtube_clipper_ temporary directory

Write

Copies media into temporary storage

yt-dlp installation

Read

Checks your yt-dlp version

What you need · 5

Python 3.8 or newer must be installed.

yt-dlp must be available to download the video and subtitles.

FFmpeg with libass subtitle-filter support is required before the workflow can continue.

The pysrt Python package must be installed.


About this skill

Visibility
Public
Repository
op7418/youtube-clipper-skill
Created
Oct 8, 2026
Updated
Oct 8, 2026
Files
24