Automates YouTube video downloading, highlight selection, and rendering of three 9:16 Shorts with subtitles.
npx skills add https://github.com/uxjoseph/youtube-to-shorts --skill shorts
Please help me install this Agent Skill. Skill: /shorts Source: https://github.com/uxjoseph/youtube-to-shorts/tree/main Command: npx skills add https://github.com/uxjoseph/youtube-to-shorts --skill shorts
Many creators spend excessive time chopping long videos into multiple Shorts, captions, and vertical edits. This Skill automates end-to-end conversion from a YouTube URL to three optimized Shorts, saving hours of manual editing and ensuring consistent styling and subtitles.
Provide a YouTube URL to /shorts and the tool will automatically generate three 30–60 second vertical Shorts with subtitles.
High-intent search queries and answers about installing and using this skill.
You can convert YouTube videos into vertical Shorts by providing a URL to an automation tool that downloads the video, extracts highlights, and renders three 9:16 clips with subtitle overlays. This process requires yt-dlp for downloading and FFmpeg for rendering.
Automating long-form YouTube content repurposing involves using a tool that selects 30–60 second highlights and applies consistent caption styling. This ensures quick, repeatable Shorts production for social media teams without manual video editing.
Yes, you need yt-dlp and FFmpeg to generate Shorts from a YouTube URL. The automation relies on yt-dlp for downloading videos and subtitles, and FFmpeg for rendering the 9:16 vertical clips and applying subtitle overlays.
Yes, you can use Whisper subtitles when creating vertical video clips. The tool supports optional Whisper integration to generate subtitles if they are not available for download, ensuring consistent caption styling across all three Shorts.
The Shorts clips generated from a long YouTube video are between 30 and 60 seconds long. The automation enforces these clip lengths to ensure the final 9:16 vertical videos meet standard Shorts format requirements.
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