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YouTube Clipper Skill — Communication skill for Claude Code

Communication community intermediate

Download videos, generate semantic chapters, clip segments, translate subtitles to bilingual format, and burn subtitles into videos.

How to install YouTube Clipper Skill

This entry records only its repository, not the path inside it, so there is no exact command to give. Open op7418/Youtube-clipper-skill and copy the folder into ~/.claude/skills/, or the file into ~/.claude/agents/.

What YouTube Clipper Skill does

(633 ⭐): Download videos, generate semantic chapters, clip segments, translate subtitles to bilingual format, and burn subtitles into videos.

One of 2 entries listed from op7418/Youtube-clipper-skill. The repository README describes the whole collection, not this skill — read it on GitHub.

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Repository README

This is the README for op7418/Youtube-clipper-skill, shared by 2 entries in this directory. It describes the repository, not this entry specifically.

YouTube Clipper Skill

AI-powered YouTube video clipper for Claude Code. Download videos, generate semantic chapters, clip segments, translate subtitles to bilingual format, and burn subtitles into videos.

[](LICENSE) [](https://www.python.org/downloads/)

English | [简体中文](README.zh-CN.md)

[Features](#features) • [Installation](#installation) • [Usage](#usage) • [Requirements](#requirements) • [Configuration](#configuration) • [Troubleshooting](#troubleshooting)

Features

AI Semantic Analysis - Generate fine-grained chapters (2-5 minutes each) by understanding video content, not just mechanical time splitting
Precise Clipping - Use FFmpeg to extract video segments with frame-accurate timing
Bilingual Subtitles - Batch translate subtitles to Chinese/English with 95% API call reduction
Subtitle Burning - Hardcode bilingual subtitles into videos with customizable styling
Content Summarization - Auto-generate social media content (Xiaohongshu, Douyin, WeChat)

Installation

Option 1: npx skills (Recommended)

npx skills add https://github.com/op7418/Youtube-clipper-skill

This command will automatically install the skill to `~/.claude/skills/youtube-clipper/`.

Option 2: Manual Installation

git clone https://github.com/op7418/Youtube-clipper-skill.git
cd Youtube-clipper-skill
bash install_as_skill.sh

The install script will:

Copy files to ~/.claude/skills/youtube-clipper/
Install Python dependencies (yt-dlp, pysrt, python-dotenv)
Check system dependencies (Python, yt-dlp, FFmpeg)
Create .env configuration file

Requirements

System Dependencies

Dependency	Version	Purpose	Installation
Python	3.8+	Script execution	python.org
yt-dlp	Latest	YouTube download	`brew install yt-dlp` (macOS)
`sudo apt install yt-dlp` (Ubuntu)

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