Shorts Factory

A personal command-line tool for producing fact-checked YouTube Shorts.

What it does

Shorts Factory is a single-operator tool that runs on its author's own computer. It researches a topic, verifies every factual claim against primary sources, writes a short script, synthesizes narration, assembles a video, and uploads it to the operator's own YouTube channel.

Why it needs YouTube access

• Upload — to publish finished videos to the operator's own channel.
• Read-only channel data — to confirm which channel is authorized and read its own subscription list.
• Analytics (read-only) — to read view counts and retention for those same videos.

It never reads, writes, or accesses any account other than the one that authorizes it.

Every claim carries a source

Videos produced by this tool cite their sources in the description. A claim that cannot be supported by a primary or established secondary source does not make it into a video.