Kappal Neram Pipeline

A personal tool for making and publishing music videos.

Kappal Neram Pipeline is a small command-line program written for one person's own use. It takes a finished audio track, assembles a music video from still images, and uploads the result to that person's own YouTube channel.

What it does

• Reads an audio file and detects where the singing pauses
• Transcribes the vocal with timestamps so images can be placed on the lines they illustrate
• Assembles still images into a video with slow camera moves and crossfades
• Renders a title card and a thumbnail
• Uploads the finished video to the operator's own YouTube channel

Who it is for

It has exactly one user: the person who wrote it and owns the channel it publishes to. It is not a product, it is not offered as a service, and there is no sign-up. It is published here only because Google requires an application using the YouTube Data API to have a home page, a privacy policy and terms of service at a stable address.

Google account access

The program asks the operator to sign in with Google once, so that it can upload videos to the operator's own channel and read that channel's public statistics. It requests these permissions and no others:

• youtube.upload — upload videos to the operator's channel
• youtube.force-ssl — set the title, description and thumbnail on those uploads
• yt-analytics.readonly — read view counts and traffic sources for those videos

It does not read, modify or delete anything belonging to anyone else, and it has no access to any account other than the one that signs in.