One YouTube link in. Captioned, scheduled Shorts out.
Generating Shorts is the easy part. This agent automates everything around them.
Motion explainer of the pipeline. The example URL, clip count and times are illustrative.
In short
You send the agent a YouTube URL and the number of Shorts you want. It extracts the strongest clips, adds captions, generates the Shorts through Klap, checks the processing, calculates publishing times, uploads to the connected platforms and sends a summary on Telegram.
Role
Design and build
Input
YouTube URL + clip count
Built with
Klap · Telegram
First shared
September 2026
The problem
Turning one long video into Shorts by hand means downloading it, finding timestamps, writing every caption and uploading to each platform one by one.
How it works
Send the inputA YouTube URL and the number of Shorts.
Clips are extractedThe agent picks the important moments.
Captions are added
Shorts are generated through KlapProcessing is checked before anything moves on.
Publishing times are calculated
Content is uploadedTo each connected platform.
A Telegram summary comes back
Why it matters
The interesting part isn't generating Shorts. It's automating the whole workflow around them. Send the video, and the agent handles the rest.