ekkolon / youtube-thumbnail-generator

Fast, cross-platform CLI tool for generating high-quality YouTube thumbnails

YouTube Thumbnail Generator

This project is a work in progress.

Fast, cross-platform CLI tool for generating high-quality YouTube thumbnails.

Table of Contents

• CLI Reference
• Authors
• License
• Roadmap
• Feedback

CLI Reference

Usage

ytthumb [OPTIONS] <PATH>

Arguments

<PATH> Local image file path for generating the thumbnail

Options

-n, --name <OUT_NAME>

Generated thumbnail name. If not specified, the input filename is used with '_thumb' appended

-d, --outDir <OUT_DIR>

Specifies the output directory for the thumbnail. If unspecified, it defaults to the user's platform-specific Pictures folder

-f, --format <FORMAT>

The thumbnail's output format

Possible values:

• png
• jpg / jpeg

-s, --sampling <SAMPLING_FILTER>

Sampling algorithm to use for thumbnail generation

Possible values:

• nearest: Nearest Neighbor
• triangle: Linear Filter
• catmull-rom: Cubic Filter
• gaussian: Gaussian Filter
• lanczos3: Lanczos with window 3

-h, --help

Print help (see a summary with '-h')

-V, --version

Print version

Authors

• Nelson Dominguez (@ekkolon)

License

This project is licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 - see the LICENSE file for details.

Roadmap

This project's roadmap will be announced soon. Stay tuned for updates!

Feedback

If you have any feedback, please reach out at [email protected]

youtube-thumbnail-generator's Issues

Use claps `default_value` | `default_value_t` instead of duplicating them in `NormalizedArgs` struct

In the current implementation of our project, we use two structs:

• Args to hold input arguments
• NormalizedArgs to represent populated non-optional values for input fields defined in Args.

We should utilize the built-in default_value and default_value_t attributes provided by the clap crate. These attributes allow us to specify default values directly within the CLI argument definitions. By using these attributes, we can eliminate the redundancy of having default values in both the argument definitions and the NormalizedArgs struct, or rather remove NormalizedArgs altogether and make input arguments with defaults required.