Installing Auto-Editor

Method 1 (Recommended)

Get the official binary, available on Windows, MacOS, and 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. cd into your downloads folder. If on MacOS/Linux, run chmod +x ./auto-editor first.
  4. 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, use Homebrew:

brew install auto-editor

Auto-Editor is available on the Arch Linux AUR:

yay -S auto-editor

Notice for Pip Users

The auto-editor cli is no longer being published on pip. It is recommended to switch to a different installation method.

Notice for 'Apt' Users

The pkg versions available are very old. Either use the official binaries (recommened) or use Homebrew for Linux.

Installing from Source (Unix-Like):

Install nim, nimble, cmake, meson, ninja, then run:

nimble makeff  # Downloads and builds all dependencies
nimble make  # Build statically

or build dynamically

# Needs ffmpeg libs installed.
nimble brewmake

Installing from Source (Windows)

To build an .exe, you'll need WSL. In that environment, install nim, nimble, cmake, meson, ninja, then run:

nimble makeffwin
nimble makewin

For Windows ARM, run:

nimble makeffwinarm
nimble makewinarm

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.