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Re: Show HN: Summary Cat, a YouTube Video Summary Generator

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Seems to be an arms race between youtube forcing creators to make videos 8 mins long min to be able to get mid roll ads and people coming up with ways to summarize the transcript. 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 clipp…

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Re: Show HN: Summary Cat, a YouTube Video Summary Generator

#33

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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!

Oh boy, wait until the "Prompt Engineers" get a hold of this one.

Sorry, could you please explain what you mean? I am not really quite getting it. What might happen if a Prompt Engineer get a hold of it?

Re: Show HN: Summary Cat, a YouTube Video Summary Generator

#34

Seems to be an arms race between youtube forcing creators to make videos 8 mins long min to be able to get mid roll ads and people coming up with ways to summarize the transcript. 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 clipp…

I agree that this is happening " an arms race between youtube forcing creators to make videos 8 mins long min to be able to get mid roll ads and people coming up with ways to summarize the transcript." Along the same line: I have been thinking about how my Summary Cat might mean for the content creators. How would it impact their income?

Your "use the summarizer to re-cut the videos" is fantastic!

Re: Show HN: Summary Cat, a YouTube Video Summary Generator

#36
Pretty nice! Very useful idea, especially for videos on my watchlist I never get to because I feel they're too long.

Would love if I could ask follow up questions. Would be awesome to ask "Is X also explained?" and get a little summary back with the timestamp so I can jump to that point in the video.

Also it feels a bit slow and doesn't really give feedback whether it's making progress. That would be a good UX improvement.

Re: Show HN: Summary Cat, a YouTube Video Summary Generator

#37
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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…

I think your suspicion might be correct: long videos exceeds GPT token limitation (16,385 tokens in my case of GPT-3.5-turbo-16k). Thanks for your suggestion about how to address it.

'Clean up your watch later list" is a neat use case that might be worth supporting directly in some way.

Re: Show HN: Summary Cat, a YouTube Video Summary Generator

#39

I tried to do something similar, but I could only get transcripts for videos with transcript files attached, which isnt a huge number of videos. How did you get around this?

Hi, I used this Python library (https://pypi.org/project/youtube-transcript-api/) to get transcripts. It works great.
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