Installing Auto-Editor

Method 1 (Recommended)

Get the offical binary, available on Windows, MacOS, and x86_64 Linux.

  1. go to the Releases page on GitHub, and download the binary for your platform.

  2. rename the binary to auto-editor (or auto-editor.exe for Windows).

  3. In the terminal/PowerShell, cd into your downloads folder.

If you're on MacOS/Linux, run:

chmod +x ./auto-editor
  1. Run Auto-Editor in the terminal. Because the binaries are unsigned, you may get "Unknown developer" warnings. Ignore them.

Congratulations, auto-editor should now be installed. To verify auto-editor is installed, run:

./auto-editor --help

It's recommended to place the binary in a PATH directory so that auto-editor is always available no matter your current working directory.

Method 2: Platform Installers

If you're on MacOS, it's recommend to use Homebrew:

brew install auto-editor

Auto-Editor is available on apt:

sudo apt install auto-editor

Auto-Editor is available on the Arch Linux AUR:

yay -S auto-editor

Method 3: Pip

Notice: It is not recommended to use this method because new versions of auto-editor are no longer being published on pip.

First, download and install Python

If you are installing on Windows, make sure "Add Python 3.x to PATH" is checked.

Once that's done, you should have pip on your PATH. That means when you run pip on your console, you should get a list of commands and not command not found. If you don't have pip on your PATH, try reinstalling Python.

Then run:

pip install auto-editor

Now run this command and it should list all the options you can use

auto-editor --help

If that works then congratulations, you have successfully installed auto-editor. You can use now use this with any other type of video or audio that you have.

auto-editor C:path\to\your\video.mp4

If you would like to uninstall auto-editor, run:

pip uninstall auto-editor

Installing from Source (unix-like):

Install nim, make sure nimble is available. You'll also need cmake, meson, and ninja.

nimble makeff  # Downloads and builds all dependencies
nimble make

Installing from Source (Windows)

To build an .exe, you'll need to install WSL, then install nim on that environment. Make sure nimble is available. You'll also need cmake, meson, and ninja.

Then run:

nimble makeffwin
nimble windows

Optional Dependencies

If yt-dlp is installed, auto-editor can download and use URLs as inputs.

auto-editor "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcs82HnguGc"

How yt-dlp is installed does not matter.