muapi-youtube-shorts

This skill auto-generates vertical short-form video clips (YouTube Shorts, TikTok, and Instagram Reels or Feed) from a long-form source video. It solves the manual, time-consuming task of finding the most engaging moments in a long video and cropping them to the right aspect ratio for each platform. It is a thin, platform-aware preset over an underlying AI Clipping primitive: it chooses sensible defaults (aspect ratio and clip count) for the target platform and delegates the heavy lifting to muapi.ai's managed /ai-clipping endpoint.

All processing runs server-side, so no local ffmpeg, Python, Whisper, or LLM keys are needed. A single shell script resolves the source (uploading local files to the muapi CDN when necessary), applies platform defaults, calls the clipping endpoint, polls until complete, and prints a ranked summary that can optionally download or open the clips. The remote pipeline transcribes the audio, ranks highlights through a virality framework (hook moments, emotional peaks, opinion bombs, revelations, conflict, quotable lines, story peaks, practical value), dedupes overlapping candidates, selects the top N, and produces face-tracked vertical crops. Each returned clip includes a 0-100 score, an opening hook line, a one-sentence rationale, a time range, and a clip URL. It supports overrides, batch processing from a URL list, and asynchronous submit-and-poll.

It targets content creators, social media managers, and marketers who want to repurpose long videos into ranked short clips quickly. Prerequisites are minimal: the muapi CLI installed and authenticated and a MUAPI_API_KEY. The skill uses that key through the official CLI, uploads source media to the vendor's CDN for processing, and includes explicit guidance not to fabricate keys, making it a straightforward read-and-call API wrapper with standard credential handling.