Highlight and download excerpts

This guide shows you how to highlight a live stream excerpt and download it as a video file.

Prerequisites

Rewyt doesn’t download excerpts directly, you need ypb for that.

• Rewyt installed as a desktop app or web app
• ypb installed

Note

If you’re running Rewyt as a web app, ypb is already bundled inside its container, no separate install needed. Steps 1 and 2 below still apply, but for the download step, see Download excerpts with Compose instead.

Steps

1. Highlight an excerpt

   Use the A and B buttons (or a and b keyboard shortcuts) to mark the start and end of your excerpt on the timeline.

   

2. Copy the timestamp

   Open the Highlight tab at the bottom of the interface. Click More, then select Copy timestamp. This copies a timestamp that tells ypb exactly which part of the stream to download, for example:

   2026-06-20T10:00:00+03:00/2026-06-20T20:00:00+03:00

   

3. Download the excerpt

   Run the download command with the copied timestamp and the YouTube video ID:

   ypb download 2026-06-20T10:00:00+03:00/2026-06-20T20:00:00+03:00 abcdefgh123
   

By the end, you will have a downloaded file in your working directory when done.

See also

See Create a time-lapse video to turn your excerpt into a time-lapse.