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// Downloads given video from YouTube, clips from given start and end time, saves to folder on your Desktop
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descriptionDownloads given video from YouTube, clips from given start and end time, saves to folder on your Desktop
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Downloads given video URL from YouTube, clips any start and end time range, saves to folder on your Desktop ~/Desktop/Clips. Deletes the full raw downloaed version at the end for cleanup.
Example
/clip https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tyej_V2ilZA 0:00 3:17 holloway-bmf-walkout
How to ask
Give timestamps: URL + start + end + optional name.
Clip https://youtu.be/VIDEO_ID from 0:00 to 1:12, name it myclip
Run
{baseDir}/clip.sh --url "https://youtu.be/VIDEO_ID" --start 0 --end 72 [--name "myclip"]
Times: seconds (72) or HH:MM:SS. Output: ~/Desktop/Clips/<name>.mp4.