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Re: YouTube Transcript – read YouTube videos

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Post by thaumasiotes »

chiefalchemist wrote: post #46
is0tope wrote: post #20

Maybe this is a bit off topic, but does anyone know the legal footing of having a business with another businesses name in it? For instance, this tool uses the word "YouTube" in its name, though it is used as only a part of it, and it is not a competitor. I've always wondered how this works.

Not sure about YouTube but WordPress does not allow the use of the name. WP in your (e.g.) domain name is ok. WordPress is not. I'd imagine it's very similar for others. Often a company will pursue a violation if only to be consistent in showing the courts they actively defend their copy right.

> Not sure about YouTube but WordPress does not allow the use of the name.

They may not like it, but they don't have the power to disallow you from using their name to refer to them. That's allowed.

Re: YouTube Transcript – read YouTube videos

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Post by thomassmith65 »

janandonly wrote: post #7

The burning hate I feel for all information to be locked away in a YouTube video. This will solve that real world problem. I love reading (or, skimming) through a long read.

The ratio of information to misinformation on Youtube seems pretty bad.

To make transcripts easier to access might create more problems than it solves.

Granted I can't make a bullet-proof argument; there's no clear way to quantify that ratio.

Re: YouTube Transcript – read YouTube videos

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Post by greggsy »

neilv wrote: post #38

Hook this up to a language model, and maybe a user could instantly get the one sentence worth of information that the YouTube video creator buries in 10 minutes of monetized noise. And also save yourself time when the creator teases that they provide the info, but it turns out they don't, they're just trying to get views.

I put something like this together to collect transcripts for uni videos. It’s dumps all transcripts into a directory, with URL links, so I can just search the whole directory to find the keyword I need.

Helped a lot with take home exams.

Re: YouTube Transcript – read YouTube videos

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Post by kristianheljas »

12907835202 wrote: post #76
nostromo wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

YouTube created that problem by incentivizing longer videos. And now we have videos with tons of fluff. Similarly Google incentivizes longer webpages, so now we have recipes that start with a novella about grandma’s cooking before showing the actual recipe. It used to be nice to see a video’s thumbs up to thumbs down ratio to know if you’ve been click baited or not before watching the whole video. But that signal has…

Are you sure Google prefers longer pages? I find (annoyingly) that Google likes the search version of my page for lots of things. E.g. a page called "best x of the y" the page for searching comments on that page called "best x of y search" where the only text is the title and a search input, will rank really well

Try to search for recepies :) I also see long novels which seem to disguise the ridiculous amount ads which google seems to like as well (these are mostly provided by no other than themselves!).

Re: YouTube Transcript – read YouTube videos

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Post by svat »

This is a great idea; I really enjoy all these "two channels simultaneously" (side-by-side translations, video with subtitles, and in this case video with a readable transcript, where you can scroll in the video or scroll in the transcript, and be synchronized).

I had done something like this a couple of years ago for some specific set of videos (e.g. https://shreevatsa.net/tex/program/videos/s10/ — compare with https://youtubetranscript.com/?v=_0Cv1G_s4gQ for the same video), but never got around to making it general; glad someone has done it. It takes just a few lines of Javascript, using the Youtube API, to do this i.e. keeping the video and text in sync (just view source on either page to see the JS at the bottom).

Something like this can also help with audio recordings (generating the alignment automatically is called "forced alignment" and there are tools like "aeneas" for this). In case anyone's interested or wants to help (for Sanskrit texts): see https://github.com/shreevatsa/web-align-audio-text deployed at https://shreevatsa.net/ramayana/sarga/ and better version at https://github.com/avinashvarna/audio_alignment deployed at https://avinashvarna.github.io/audio_alignment/

Re: YouTube Transcript – read YouTube videos

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Post by slipmagic »

anticristi wrote: post #75
nostromo wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

YouTube created that problem by incentivizing longer videos. And now we have videos with tons of fluff. Similarly Google incentivizes longer webpages, so now we have recipes that start with a novella about grandma’s cooking before showing the actual recipe. It used to be nice to see a video’s thumbs up to thumbs down ratio to know if you’ve been click baited or not before watching the whole video. But that signal has…

As a recipe reader I want to dismiss cookies, have a video ad follow me down the page, and read why this cake conjures up memories of the author's childhood, before reaching the actual recipe so that I feel connected to the author, before fully committing to mixing ingredients

Tom Redman had this idea but he took feedback from Twitter. https://digg.com/2021/one-main-character-tom-redman-recipeas...

Re: YouTube Transcript – read YouTube videos

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Post by chiefalchemist »

thaumasiotes wrote: post #81
chiefalchemist wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not sure about YouTube but WordPress does not allow the use of the name. WP in your (e.g.) domain name is ok. WordPress is not. I'd imagine it's very similar for others. Often a company will pursue a violation if only to be consistent in showing the courts they actively defend their copy right.

> Not sure about YouTube but WordPress does not allow the use of the name. They may not like it, but they don't have the power to disallow you from using their name to refer to them. That's allowed.

Actually, they do. It's copyright. Plenty of legal precedent. They defend WordPress, but are willing to allow WP.

The law is on their side.

Re: YouTube Transcript – read YouTube videos

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Post by Topgamer7 »

neilv wrote: post #38

Hook this up to a language model, and maybe a user could instantly get the one sentence worth of information that the YouTube video creator buries in 10 minutes of monetized noise. And also save yourself time when the creator teases that they provide the info, but it turns out they don't, they're just trying to get views.

YouTube-dl had the ability to rip just subtitles. I once used this to grep for some information I wanted after downloading all of the transcripts.

Re: YouTube Transcript – read YouTube videos

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Post by varenc »

banana_giraffe wrote: post #13

If you want an CLI version of a similar idea, you can use yt-dlp and some simple jq to pull down the captions for a file: curl `\ yt-dlp -j "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aeWyp2vXxqA" | \ jq -r '.automatic_captions.en[] | select(.ext=="json3") | .url'`

That gets me the subs in some usual complicated format? It's a bit of work to extract the actual text from that.

To get youtube subs in .srt format this gave me some limited success:

    yt-dlp --convert-subs=srt  --write-auto-sub --write-sub --sub-lang "en,en-us,en-GB,automatic-caption-en" --skip-download  "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OfxlSG6q5Y"
Behind the scenes yt-dlp is downloading the subs in .vtt format than using ffmpeg to convert those to .srt. Depending on your situation the original .vtt format might be fine.
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