Douyin Repurpose Pipeline

One command chains download, local transcription and an optional trilingual subtitle burn. Without cues it writes placeholders for you to complete.

What to say

Repurpose this Douyin video into a subtitled version: <url>.

How it works

uv run scripts/repurpose_douyin.py <url>
Fill pending_cues.json (pinyin, English)
Re-run with --cues

Example input (examples/repurpose.json)

{
  "source": "https://www.douyin.com/video/7341234567890123456",
  "model": "small",
  "language": "auto",
  "translate": "none",
  "cues": [
    {
      "start": "00:00.000",
      "end": "00:02.500",
      "chinese": "你好，欢迎回来。",
      "pinyin": "nǐ hǎo, huānyíng huílái",
      "english": "Hello, welcome back."
    }
  ]
}

At a glance

Best for

Turning a short clip into a learner video

You give

A Douyin URL

You get

raw.mp4, transcripts, subtitled.mp4

Time

Minutes

Cost

Free

Good to know

No machine translation is used; the agent writes the English

Examples (real results, first 24 seconds)

No sample render of this one is checked in yet. Ask for it and the first result becomes the example.