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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 alvah »

j45 wrote: post #55
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.

The suggestion was to use Whisper as a fallback where no YT transcript exists.

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

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Post by fortran77 »

Interesting idea, but not quite useful. I tried two: How to replace a fiberglass window screen and how to replace the "cycle clutch gearh on an IBM Selectric Typewriter"

https://stepify.tech/video/KafAn1h4x14

Neither were good enough to use.

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

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Post by iamflimflam1 »

aka_sh wrote: post #33
iamflimflam1 wrote: post #21

I think, to be fairer to the people actually creating the content, you should make a much more obvious link back the original video.

I will. Could you suggest a place where it would be more obvious?

I would suggest to put it at the top of the instructions. What would be really useful - as someone else suggested would be to link directly to relevant parts of the video.

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

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Post by gmerc »

It’s tricky when you don’t do editorial on your homepage tho:

https://stepify.tech/video/623AC6a6org

is the first featured video…

In any case, it’s doomed- google will cut off the access or integrate the feature on their side. They thank you for the proof of concept though.

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

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Post by patal »

gmerc wrote: post #65

It’s tricky when you don’t do editorial on your homepage tho: https://stepify.tech/video/623AC6a6org is the first featured video… In any case, it’s doomed- google will cut off the access or integrate the feature on their side. They thank you for the proof of concept though.

It's funny though

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

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Post by getwiththeprog »

sonnyw603 wrote: post #45
mbesto wrote: post #5

Super interesting. I recently went down the DIY rabbit hole for solar, electricity, etc. I tested out https://stepify.tech/video/O8eVxRVwlnw and looks decent: 1. It took about ~45 seconds for the page to load once I put the URL in. You should have a loader on a page showing that the website is "doing something" while the AI transcribes. 2. It would be great to sync the chapters in the YT video with the guide details.…

Checkout this app called Razzl. Pretty much does what you’ve described.

A web-page is way more convenient than an app.

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Post by plufz »

whereismyacc wrote: post #58
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?

My knowledge of YT is limited, but it sounds a little strange that Google would use OpenAI?
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