yt-clipper

Clip YouTube videos without downloading the entire video using {youtube-dl | yt-dlp} and ffmpeg.

usage: yt-clipper -u VIDEO_URL -s HH:MM:SS {-e HH:MM:SS | -d TIME} -o PATH [-f FORMAT | -ff PATH | -y PATH | -h]

  -u  | --url              : URL of the video to clip
  -s  | --start            : Time to begin clipping from [HH:MM:SS]
  -e  | --end              : Time to end the clip [HH:MM:SS]
  -d  | --duration         : Time in seconds to end the clip instead of timecode
  -o  | --output           : Path to output the clip to
  -f  | --format           : Format string for youtube-dl [b]
  -y  | --ytdl-bin         : Specify youtube-dl binary [yt-dlp]
  -ff | --ffmpeg-bin       : Specify ffmpeg binary [ffmpeg]
  -h  | --help             : Shows this message

Windows users

If you dont want to install Linux just for this (understandable), use https://www.msys2.org/

Under the "MSYS2 MinGW x64" shell

• pacman -Syu
• pacman -S mingw-w64-x86_64-gcc
• pacman -S mingw-w64-x86_64-python-pip
• pip install yt-dlp

The ffmpeg provided in the msys2 seems to be broken (does not respect duration and end switches), as a workaround get an ffmpeg build for Windows from https://www.gyan.dev/ffmpeg/builds, place it in your MSYS home folder and add -ff ~/ffmpeg.exe at the end of your command.

Then you should be all set to use the script, you only need to do this once.

In the future you may need pip install yt-dlp --upgrade if/when it breaks.