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

npm install youtube-player-screenshot -g

Usage

$ cd /Users/sunknudsen/Desktop

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

Options:
  --url <url>            YouTube URL
  --width <width>        screenshot width (default: "1920")
  --height <height>      screenshot height (default: "1080")
  --scale <scale>        scale factor (default: "2")
  --type <type>          screenshot type (choices: "jpeg", "png", default: "png")
  --output <output>      output folder (default: "/Users/sunknudsen/Code/sunknudsen/youtube-player-screenshot")
  --filename <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

$ 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](how-to-create-signal-account-without-using-personal-phone-number.png)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9aMJZjZ4pw "How to create Signal account without using personal phone number")

Markdown copied to clipboard 👍

$ 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