Youtuber-dl-Wrapper-Trimmer

Wrappers for Youtube-dl (and FFmpeg) to download audio and trim clips at specified timestamp.

• Use
• Development

Use

1. Download Youtube.Trimmer.rar.
2. Create a shortcut to youtube-downloader.exe.
3. Run youtube-downloader.exe or the shortcut.
4. Start Time & End Time in format of HHMMSS, eg. 013430 for 1 Hour 34 Minutes 30 Seconds.
5. Trimmed clip will be placed in \Clip\.

Demonstration

Starts at 1 Minute 30 Seconds and ends at 2 Minutes 45 Seconds for this URL

If no Start Time was entered, will start from 00:00:00, if no End Time was entered, will end at the end. The program will exit after finishing operation.

Development

Python

youtube-downloader.py

To modify output directory, modify /Clip/ in 'outtmpl': '/Clip/%(title)s.%(ext)s' Stores trimmed audio files into /Clip of current directory by default.

Py2exe

1. Download both setup.py and youtube-downloader.py.
2. Download Py2exe.
3. Run python setup.py py2exe
4. Rename Dist to any of your liking and create a shortcut to youtube-downloader.exe to use it any where.

PyInstaller (Not Recommended, Slow Start Time)

1. Download youtube-downloader.py.
2. Enter the directory and do pyinstaller --onefile youtube-downloader.py
3. The distribution is in ~\dist\youtube-downloader.
4. Create a shortcut to youtube-downloader.exe to use it any where. Read more on PyInstaller.

Powershell

1. Download yt.ps1.
2. Edit yt.ps1 with any text editor. Recommends Notepad++ or Visual Studio Code
3. Change D:\Youtube-DLG\youtube-dl.exe to the directory where your youtube-dl.exe is installed.
4. Change D:\Music\%(title)s.%(ext)s to the directory where you want the final .mp3 audio file is placed. Alternatively, removing -o 'D:\Music\%(title)s.%(ext)s' will place the trimmed .mp3 audio file in the same directory.
5. Run yt.ps1, input Start Time & End Time in format of HHMMSS, eg. 013430 for 1 Hour 34 Minutes 30 Seconds.

Co-Author

Lexes Jan - https://github.com/lexesjan