Extract YouTube video clips with Claude and Apify from natural language prompts

Who is this for? Content creators, marketers, and video editors who want to automatically extract highlight clips from YouTube videos using natural language descriptions—no manual timestamp hunting required.

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What problem does it solve? Manually scrubbing through long videos to find specific moments is time-consuming and tedious. This workflow automates the entire process: describe what clips you want in plain English, and AI analyzes the transcript to find and extract them automatically.

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How it works

| | Node | Purpose | |---|------|---------| | 1 | YouTube Clip Request Form | Web form to submit YouTube URL, clip description, count, and max duration. | | 2 | Workflow Configuration | Centralizes Apify credentials and user inputs. | | 3 | Get Video Transcript from Apify | Fetches the full video transcript via Apify Actor. | | 4 | Find Clips from Transcript | AI Agent (Claude) analyzes transcript and identifies clip timestamps based on your description. | | 5 | Prepare Clip Requests | Formats the AI-identified clips for the clipping service. | | 6 | Create Clips via Apify | Sends clip requests to Apify Actor to extract video segments. | | 7a | Save Clip Links to Google Sheets | Logs clip URLs to a spreadsheet for easy access. | | 7b | Download Clip Files (optional) | Downloads clips locally to your specified directory. |

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Setup steps