youtube-player-screenshot

Capture YouTube player screenshot and, optionally, generate markdown code for it.

This project was developed to make embedding what appears to be clickable YouTube players (like the one bellow) effortless and scriptable.


Features

- Super simple to use
- Uses trusted dependencies (chalk, clipboardy, puppeteer, etc...)
- Very light codebase to audit (less than 100 lines)
- Written in TypeScript

Installation

``shell
npm install youtube-player-screenshot -g
`

Usage

`console
$ cd /Users/sunknudsen/Desktop

$ youtube-player-screenshot -h
Usage: youtube-player-screenshot [options]

Options:
--url YouTube URL
--width screenshot width (default: "1920")
--height screenshot height (default: "1080")
--scale scale factor (default: "2")
--type screenshot type (choices: "jpeg", "png", default: "png")
--output

output folder (default: "/Users/sunknudsen/Code/sunknudsen/youtube-player-screenshot")
--filename filename (example: "b9aMJZjZ4pw.png")
--privacy enable privacy-conscious mode
--clipboard copy markdown to clipboard
--stdout output markdown to stdout
-h, --help display help for command

`

--output defaults to folder in which youtube-player-screenshot is executed.

Example

`console
$ cd /Users/sunknudsen/Desktop

$ youtube-player-screenshot --url "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9aMJZjZ4pw" --scale 3 --privacy --clipboard --stdout
![How to create Signal account without using personal phone number](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9aMJZjZ4pw "How to create Signal account without using personal phone number")
`

Markdown copied to clipboard 👍

`console
$ file how-to-create-signal-account-without-using-personal-phone-number.png
how-to-create-signal-account-without-using-personal-phone-number.png: PNG image data, 1920 x 1080, 8-bit/color RGB, non-interlaced
``