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Giving it either a long (2.5hr) video, or a non-youtube URL (e.g. an invidious link) appears to leave it spinning forever - no error message.
As for non-Youtube URL: I indeed do not handle that error right now :D. Thanks so much for bringing it up!
That's so evil. Please correct the alignment!
Only note I have at this time is that it seemed to time out or hang or something on a long video (>2h) -- I'm guessing that there might be limitations to how much transcript you can chuck into GPT, it might be worth throwing an error of some sort in that scenario rather than the forever load
E: Seen you've asked for an example to the other person mentioning this. In my case it was this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFL6qRIJZ_Y
Not bad - fed in one of my videos and it’s surprisingly readable. Are you using a particular prompt? Would you be willing to share it?
More than happy to share! ----------- My prompt is super simple. It is "please summarize the following text into a few paragraphs:" + the full transcript. ----------- Seriously that's it!
Just used this to clear out my watch later list without having to watch anything. Nice! Only note I have at this time is that it seemed to time out or hang or something on a long video (>2h) -- I'm guessing that there might be limitations to how much transcript you can chuck into GPT, it might be worth throwing an error of some sort in that scenario rather than the forever load E: Seen you've asked for an example to…
Thanks for your suggestion about how to address it.
I suggest a progress bar rather than a spinny thingy. Give the user some sense that a conclusion is on the horizon.
From my own experiments, I think you'll get better summaries with a prompt like "This is a transcription of a youtube video. Please etc etc etc". Context seems to help.
Nice! For those interested in comparing, https://www.summarize.tech/ also builds summaries from YouTube videos but includes an overview, then a summary of each 5 min segment
Idea for the future: Use the summarize to re-cut the videos to the most important parts. Like a super to the point tiktok style video that is nothing but dopamine being injected into your veins. There seems to already be "auto podcast clipper ai agents" out there but nothing for consumers to use. those are more video editor adjacent. If anyone wants to work on something like this, lemme know.
Nice! For those interested in comparing, https://www.summarize.tech/ also builds summaries from YouTube videos but includes an overview, then a summary of each 5 min segment