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Re: Show HN: I made a website that converts YT videos into step-by-step guides

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Post by Yannael »

metadat wrote: post #13

This is a brilliant and useful application of LLM technology, I'm impressed. One question- On the backend, is it downloading each video CC (closed-caption) transcript and feeding that into a tuned prompt? What happens for videos where this is missing? Asking because I've noticed CC is occasionally unavailable for some YouTube videos. If you cared to have a fallback, a potentially interesting experiment / solution for…

Here an example of implementation you may find interesting (that also includes snapshots, and links back to original video) - https://github.com/Yannael/video2blogpost

Re: Show HN: I made a website that converts YT videos into step-by-step guides

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Post by anticensor »

aka_sh wrote: post #6
toddmorey wrote: post #2

Love how the AI turned “drop a comment below” into a project step: “Seek feedback from stakeholders or viewers by encouraging questions and comments for further engagement.” This is from a bathroom remodel video.

Sorry for that, I'm looking into it. The problem is for videos that have no transcript. Maybe it's because i'm feeding it the description of the video for now. I'll find some workaround for this. Thanks!

Consider passing the video and transcripts through SponsorBlock (removing sponsor, self-promo, interaction remember, intro and outro segments from the videos) before stepifying them, that might help

Re: Show HN: I made a website that converts YT videos into step-by-step guides

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Post by talldayo »

shortformblog wrote: post #130
j45 wrote: post #127

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Linking to the video would provide some seo juice for the video creator if it was for the site owner. YouTube channels routinely analyze each other for content and doing it as well “in their own way” Packaging content in a different way is similar to repurposing content for different social media platforms. Heck some people share other peoples content on different platforms. This site is putting a particular lens on…

Nothing you said gets around the fact that this is a giant fair use violation.

I'll steelman the opposite side; YouTube creators have no rights.

When you upload a video to YouTube, you are licensing Google to redistribute a copy of your content at their whims. The uploader agrees to give Google "a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicensable and transferable license to use, reproduce, distribute, prepare derivative works of, display, and perform" your video.

The video you upload to YouTube isn't yours anymore. You can pretend it is, and play around with it like a little paper doll for all it's worth. You don't own it anymore though, and your right to judge where it is and belongs is stripped the moment you click "Upload".

Re: Show HN: I made a website that converts YT videos into step-by-step guides

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Post by j45 »

shortformblog wrote: post #130
j45 wrote: post #127

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Linking to the video would provide some seo juice for the video creator if it was for the site owner. YouTube channels routinely analyze each other for content and doing it as well “in their own way” Packaging content in a different way is similar to repurposing content for different social media platforms. Heck some people share other peoples content on different platforms. This site is putting a particular lens on…

Nothing you said gets around the fact that this is a giant fair use violation.

To the extent taking notes on a video without permission is a thing?

The outcome is not competing with the source video. Anyone's who's interested in the topic would likely still choose which video they want to delve into further.

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