YouTube Clipper

Node type: utility:youtube_clipper
Category: Video Import

Description

Download and trim YouTube videos to clips. YouTube challenges unauthenticated requests, so wire fresh cookies for reliable fetches. Cookies are saved with the workflow and travel with a shared link or a published Blueprint, so use a throwaway account.

Canvas ports

These appear as port handles on the left side of the node.

ID	Label	Details
url	YouTube URL	TEXT (required)
cookies	Cookies (optional)	TEXT

Sidebar config

These render as form fields in the right-side config panel when the node is selected.

No sidebar config fields.

Outputs

ID	Label	Type
video	Video	VIDEO

Cookies are a live session, and they travel

Whatever you wire into Cookies is stored with the workflow like any other node value. It goes out with a shared link, and publishing the workflow as a Blueprint freezes it into a public snapshot anyone can fork: a Blueprint strips results and pins, not node config. Export cookies from a throwaway YouTube account, never the one you care about, and sign that account out when you are finished so the session stops working.

Wiring cookies changes how a headless run sees this node

A node with an incoming edge is no longer treated as an input of the workflow, so once Cookies is wired, a url in a run payload is accepted and then ignored rather than applied. For an automation, either bake the url into the node, or leave cookies unwired and let the service fall back to its own session.

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