Python CLI and local web UI that turns a YouTube link or video file into ranked, vertical short clips with an LLM picking the highlights.
Open-source alternative toOpus Clip
AI shorts generator (short-video-maker) at a glance
Checked 18 Oct 2026This MIT-licensed Python tool downloads a YouTube video (or takes a local file), transcribes it locally with faster-whisper, has an LLM (OpenAI, Gemini or MuAPI) score candidate moments 0-100, and renders the top clips at a chosen ratio such as 9:16, with an optional AI-written hook. It has a CLI, a local web UI and an API. It needs an LLM API key: Gemini has a free tier with daily limits, OpenAI and MuAPI are paid. The README does not describe face or speaker tracking when cropping, and there is no social publishing.
RepoQuarry. “AI shorts generator (short-video-maker).” Checked 18 Oct 2026. https://repoquarry.dev/projects/short-video-makerHow much of Opus Clip does it replace?
- Personal use
- Confirmed: Yes
- For a business
- Confirmed: Yes
4 of 5 jobs. Picks and scores clips, crops to 9:16 and adds subtitles; crop tracking not documented, no social scheduling.
For schedule and publish clips to social platforms, see other Opus Clip alternatives. You may also need to build an interface, an API server and hosting yourself.
Facts, with sources
Every answer links to where we found it. We read the documentation; we did not install it.
faster-whisper produces a timestamped transcript locallygithub.com · short-video-maker#readme ↗ 3d ago
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this softwaregithub.com · LICENSE ↗ 3d ago
to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Softwaregithub.com · LICENSE ↗ 3d ago
Any LLM API key(OpenAI/Gemini/MuAPI)github.com · short-video-maker#readme ↗ 3d ago
LOCAL_WHISPER_DEVICE=auto # auto / cpu / cudagithub.com · short-video-maker#readme ↗ 3d ago
Linux/MacOS:github.com · short-video-maker#readme ↗ 3d ago
pip install -r requirements.txtgithub.com · short-video-maker#readme ↗ 3d ago
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Growth and activity in detail
Is it popular, and is anyone still working on it? From GitHub.
- Few active maintainersOnly 1 person committed in the last 12 months, so its future depends on very few hands.
1 people committing in the last 12 months · 0 pull requests merged in 30 days · 0 issues opened, 0 closed in 30 days
Stars over time
Building history+3 stars since 18 Oct 2026. The 7-day comparison and the trend label start once there is a full week of daily counts.
- AI shorts generator (short-video-maker)
Tracked daily since 18 Oct 2026. Dashed history: estimated from public records of when people starred the repo. Lines connect observations only; gaps contain no measured points.
Commits per week, last 52 weeks
active 2 of the last 12 weeksCommits restarted after a quiet 12 weeks.
Where these numbers come from
- Stars, forks, releases: GitHub's public API, fetched every night (last fetch 1d ago).
- Star history: counted every night since 18 Oct 2026; the dashed part before that is estimated from the dates people starred the repo.
- Commits and people committing: GitHub's repository statistics, counted weekly. Names are never stored.
- Pull requests and issues: counted from GitHub for the last 30 days.
- Stars show popularity, not quality. The facts below are checked separately, by reading the project's own documentation. How we check.