Anil-matcha/AI-Youtube-Shorts-Generator
Open-source alternative to Opus Clip, Vidyo.ai, Klap & SubMagic. Turn long-form YouTube videos into viral 9:16 shorts using LLM highlight detection, Whisper transcription, and auto vertical cropping — free, no watermarks, no per-clip credits.
5.3k stars · 971 forks · Python
Caution
Caution: one person wrote most of the recent commits.
Why
- One person wrote 90% of human commits in the last year, so the project depends on them continuing. (source 1, source 2)
What would change this
- A second person takes a substantial share of commits.
Maintenance
CompleteActive
- Human commits, 30 days
- 4
- Human commits, 90 days
- 10
- Human commits, 365 days
- 29
- Bot share of commits, 365 days
- 0%
- Last commit
- Oct 11, 2026 (3 days ago)
- Last human commit
- Oct 11, 2026 (3 days ago)
- Authors, 90 days
- 1
- Last release
- none found
- Median PR merge time
- 4 days
Responsiveness: of 7 recent issues, 29% got a maintainer reply. Median first response: 10 days.
Sources: Commits, Releases, Merged pull requests, Issues
People
Complete- Owner
- Personal account
- Commits sampled
- 29 since Oct 14, 2025
- Authors for half of commits
- 1
- Authors for 80% of commits
- 1
- Contributors
- 3
Top committers
- Anil-matcha: 90% of commits
- LathissKhumar: 7% of commits
- cl8dep: 3% of commits
Sources: Commits, Contributors
Stars
CompleteOrganic, confidence high
Bursts
- Sep 13, 2024 to Sep 27, 2024: about 315 more stars than usual, peak 73 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Oct 2, 2024 to Oct 4, 2024: about 177 more stars than usual, peak 121 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
- Dec 6, 2024 to Dec 9, 2024: about 315 more stars than usual, peak 210 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
- Feb 14, 2025 to Feb 20, 2025: about 219 more stars than usual, peak 72 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
- Feb 3, 2026 to Feb 4, 2026: about 78 more stars than usual, peak 55 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
- Apr 28, 2026 to Apr 30, 2026: about 71 more stars than usual, peak 40 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
Anyone can buy stars for any repo; bursts alone don't prove the owner did.
- The star history looks organic.
Sources: How star history is analyzed
Risk
CompleteFlags
No risk flags.
License
- Now
- MIT (OSI-approved)
- A year ago
- Not known
Packages
No published packages found.
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[](https://reporadar.ai/Anil-matcha/AI-Youtube-Shorts-Generator)Earlier verdicts
- Oct 14, 2026: Caution
- Oct 14, 2026: Caution
Computed 7 hours ago · method 2026.10.2