youtube-automator

This is a fun project centered around finding interesting stories on Reddit and compiling youtube shorts videos with them. The visuals are intended to be some gaming oriented videos

Developing

To clone this project and build your awesome next-gen solution based on it:

git clone https://github.com/DataMonarch/youtube-automator.git

How to Run the Video Processor Script

This script is used to trim videos. To run the script, follow the steps below after cloning the repo:

Step 1: Install the Required Libraries

Before running the script, ensure that the required libraries are installed by running the following command in your terminal:

pip install numpy pandas moviepy

Step 2: Run the App

cd <path-to-repo-parent>/youtube-automator
python app.py

Disclaimer: the app interface displays only the most important info, for more verbose logging, see the terminal outputs.

Alternative to step 2: Use the CLI tool

The video processing script can be run with the following command:

python yt_shorts_main.py [-l URL | -vid VIDEO_ID] [-s START] [-e END] [-c COUNT]

Arguments

    -l, --url: The URL of the video to be trimmed
    -s, --start: The start time in the format hh.mm.ss
    -e, --end: The end time in the format hh.mm.ss
    -vid, --video_id: The ID of the video to be trimmed
    -c, --count: The number of times the video should be trimmed

Note that either -l or -vid must be specified. If both are specified, -l will be used.

Example Usage

To trim a video with ID 12345 from 00:10:00 to 00:15:00, run the following command:

python yt_shorts_main.py -vid 12345 -s 00.10.00 -e 00.15.00

To trim a video from a YouTube URL, run the following command:

python yt_shorts_main.py -l https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12345 -s 00.10.00 -e 00.15.00

Configuration

This section will be updated at a later stage

Contributing

"If you'd like to contribute, please fork the repository and use a feature branch. Pull requests are warmly welcome."

Licensing

This section will be updated at a later stage