Anil-matcha / AI-Youtube-Shorts-Generator
Open-source alternative to Opus Clip, Vidyo.ai, Klap & SubMagic. Turn long-form YouTube videos into viral 9:16 shorts using LLM highlight detection, Whisper transcription, and auto vertical cropping — free, no watermarks, no per-clip credits.
Why this job: says: transcription; topics: whisper
What it does
- YouTube In, Vertical Out. Hand it any YouTube URL — get back N viral-ready 9:16 mp4s
- Two Modes. API (fast) or Local (offline): Default --mode api uses MuAPI for download/transcription/cropping; --mode local runs entirely on your machine with yt-dlp, faster-whisper, and ffmpeg/opencv, and lets you pick OpenAI or Gemini for
- Virality-Aware Highlight Selection. Clips ranked on hooks, emotional peaks, opinion bombs, revelation moments, conflict, quotable lines, story peaks, and practical value — not just generic "interesting"
- Score + Hook + Reason for Every Clip. Each highlight comes with a viral score, an opening hook line, and a one-sentence explanation of why it works
- Whisper Transcription, Your Choice. Cloud (/openai-whisper via MuAPI) or local (faster-whisper, CPU or CUDA) — same downstream output shape
Get started
No single install command. Read the steps in the README (opens in new tab)
- Maintenance
- Active
- Last commit 3 days ago
- Stars
- 5,851
- +121 this week
- Licence
- MIT
- Allows business use
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- Built with
- Python
- 100% of the code
Is it looked after?
- Contributors
- 1
- Last 90 days
- Issues
- 78% closed
- 10 still open
- Pull requests
- 12 merged
- 16 waiting
- Releases
- None
- Never published
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- No security policy
- No code of conduct
More: languages, topics and project record
Languages
- Python 100%
Topics
- video-editing
- youtube-shorts
- shorts-maker
- ai-clip-generator
- ai-clipping
- auto-clip
- auto-crop
- highlight-detection
- llm
- open-source
- opus-clip-alternative
- reels
Project record
- JobSpeech and audio
- StatusFeatured
- Commits33
- Forks1,061
- Watching60
- Stars in 28 days+540
- CreatedJun 28, 2024
- First seen by usNov 7, 2026
- CheckedNov 9, 2026