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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 metadat »

aka_sh wrote: post #36
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…

Thank you! I'm getting the transcript through an API and feeding it to the GPT. For now, the fallback function for no captions is just to make something out of the description of the video. I really appreciate the suggestion, i'll experiment around using Whisper. Regarding open source or business. I don't really know about that yet. Maybe, i'll lean towards the business side to cover the costs and see where this goes…

Eek, so many typos in my comment - but the most egregious was where I meant to convey the code itself is not a huge moat. Even still, no worries if you don't want to give it away, I totally understand.

Keep up the good execution.

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

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Post by thih9 »

> Internal Server Error

> The server encountered an internal error and was unable to complete your request. Either the server is overloaded or there is an error in the application.

Hugs all around - I'd take it as a positive feedback. Congrats on the launch!

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

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Post by ravenstine »

aka_sh wrote: post #36
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…

Thank you! I'm getting the transcript through an API and feeding it to the GPT. For now, the fallback function for no captions is just to make something out of the description of the video. I really appreciate the suggestion, i'll experiment around using Whisper. Regarding open source or business. I don't really know about that yet. Maybe, i'll lean towards the business side to cover the costs and see where this goes…

It's epic how well that works. Even with Whisper locally, most of what I throw at it becomes readable.

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

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Post by pedalpete »

I could have used this on the weekend. I was working on my car, and though I had watched a few videos about removing the door, and electrical connections, etc etc. I missed on some of the details, or had to make a mental note of "this, then this, not the other way around".

What I think might be a great addition is if you had a screenshot for each point? Though I'm not sure how you'd figure out which image would best capture the action.

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

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Post by j45 »

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…

Comparing yt transcript to open whisper transcripts could be interesting if it could pick up on something extra.

There is limited need to reinvent the wheel to process audio when other things can be solved.

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

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Post by j45 »

makuchaku wrote: post #17

Great work. A few ideas 1) Speed : the site is often showing heroku errors. Seems like you are running the entire processing in the request-response cycle. If not already done, please try to use a queueing system to perform async processing - and then let the user know when their video is ready to view as steps (probably via email or browser notifications). This will stop your site from crashing frequently and you'll…

Not sure if putting the site behind cloudflare or something could help.

Heroku just wants a bigger bill.

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

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Post by whereismyacc »

plufz wrote: post #15

I made something a little similar, but just as a little cli script that I run locally for myself. You can input a url for a YouTube video, podcast link or local audio/video file. It transcribes it with whisper and outputs the full transcript in one text file and I use another model to summarize it into a bullet list in a separate file. I so appreciate these open source/access models allowing us to build these kinds o…

Doesn't youtube automatically transcribe every video with whisper?

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

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Post by meiraleal »

nickjj wrote: post #47

Hi, Is there a way to request items that were submit get removed? Can you provide a way to contact you such as an email address? There wasn't one posted on your site. It's just a suggestion, I mean right now anyone can submit anyone's videos without their consent or ownership verification. How do you plan to handle that? I'm sure there will be folks out there who wouldn't feel comfortable that a site will be scraping…

Well, this place is called hackernews, after all. Information should be free so if Youtube makes it public, public it should be.
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