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Claude picks the clips worth cutting

Paste any YouTube URL and get up to 30 short-form-ready clips on your own machine—each chosen by Claude for a real hook, payoff, or quotable line, with a reason why.

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$ install yt-clipper

✓ resolving dependencies

✓ ready — 0 setup, runs on your machine

› launching…

flux@store: ~/run

$ yt-clipper --run

✓ drop a long video / url

✓ whisper transcribes it

✓ claude picks the best moments

› auto-cut clips + burned subtitles

done — output ready ▍

$ run --pipeline

Drop a long video / URL

Whisper transcribes it

Claude picks the best moments

Auto-cut clips + burned subtitles

$ explain --how-it-works

How it actually works

Exactly what it does — and when.

1Paste any YouTube URL — Whisper transcribes the whole video locally.

2--mode ai has Claude WATCH the transcript and pick the genuinely clip-worthy moments (hooks, payoffs, quotable lines) with a reason for each.

3Auto-cuts up to 30 short-form-ready clips with burned-in subtitles.

4Falls back to local hook-detection when no API key — still works, still $0 per clip.

In practice · One long video → a week of shorts

You drop in a 45-minute podcast. It transcribes it, Claude reads the transcript and flags the 12 moments most likely to pop — each with a one-line reason — and you get vertical, captioned clips ready to post. What used to be an afternoon of scrubbing is a single command, on your machine, with zero per-clip fees.

$ cat spec.txt

FormatRunnable scripts + docs

DeliveryInstant — no email

LicenseYours forever · use on every project

Works withAny LLM / your own stack

$ benchmark --vs-alternatives

This product

A paid SaaS tool

Monthly cost

$0 — runs on your machine

$80–150/mo, billed forever

Setup

Drop in & run in minutes

Accounts, API keys, rate limits

Your data

Never leaves your computer

Uploaded to their cloud

Ownership

Yours forever — edit the code

Rented; stops when you cancel

Use it to…

Real ways people run YT Clipper.

Repurpose podcast episodes

Drop a long interview URL and get up to 30 clips flagged for hooks, payoffs, and quotable lines—each with a reason—ready to cut for Reels or Shorts.

Mine tutorial highlights

Run --mode ai on a how-to video so Claude picks the payoff moments and explains why each segment stands alone as a clip.

Clip with no API key

Process a YouTube URL entirely on your own machine using local hook-detection when you don't have a Claude API key—still zero per-clip fees.

What's inside

--mode ai: an AI picks the clip-worthy moments, with a reason for each

Hears + transcribes (Whisper), then finds real hooks, payoffs & quotable lines

Subject-following 9:16 auto-reframe — not a dumb center-crop

Word-by-word captions burned on every cut

Local hook-detection fallback — works with no API key

100% local · zero per-clip fees · free forever

Questions, answered

✓ Free · no email✓ Yours to own✓ Use on every project✓ Built to ship results