Show HN: YouTube Summary CLI

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Post by mmaorc » Sun, May 28, 2023, 11:25 AM UTC

This simple tool was born out of a personal need for a more efficient way to consume YouTube content. It provides you with a short and segment-wise summary of a YouTube video. Each segment is printed with a link to that part of the video. I know there are several Chrome extensions that do this, butI work with different browsers so I wanted a simple CLI app for that.

Hope this helps anyone else. Any feedback would be much appreciated

Show HN: YouTube Summary CLI
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Re: Show HN: YouTube Summary CLI

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Post by tonypai » Sun, May 28, 2023, 5:09 PM UTC

Cool, it's a smart way to summarize YouTube video!

Couple weeks ago, I made a Summary Telegram bot to summarize everything together includes text, URL, PDF and YouTube video. I used MapReduce to summarize each chunks of YouTube transcript, but the result ended up missing too much information.

https://github.com/tpai/summary-gpt-bot

I am wondering if you'd be interested in integrating our tools together?

Re: Show HN: YouTube Summary CLI

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Post by mmaorc » Sun, May 28, 2023, 6:01 PM UTC

tonypai wrote: post #2

Cool, it's a smart way to summarize YouTube video! Couple weeks ago, I made a Summary Telegram bot to summarize everything together includes text, URL, PDF and YouTube video. I used MapReduce to summarize each chunks of YouTube transcript, but the result ended up missing too much information. https://github.com/tpai/summary-gpt-bot I am wondering if you'd be interested in integrating our tools together?

Hi there A Telegram bot is also a good way to do summarization.

There's not enough incentive for me to continue working on my project, but it has an MIT license so feel free to copy whatever you want to your own project.

Re: Show HN: YouTube Summary CLI

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Post by bharat24 » Mon, May 29, 2023, 3:13 AM UTC

Good idea. Will try it out. Where did you find those youtube libraries ? Are they 3rd party or provided by youtube itself ?

Re: Show HN: YouTube Summary CLI

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Post by mehmet_mhy » Mon, May 29, 2023, 4:19 AM UTC

This is amazing! I made something similar to this but this is way more polished. I found tools like this really useful because it helps prevents you from getting click baited.

Re: Show HN: YouTube Summary CLI

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Post by mmaorc » Tue, May 30, 2023, 3:00 PM UTC

mehmet_mhy wrote: post #5

This is amazing! I made something similar to this but this is way more polished. I found tools like this really useful because it helps prevents you from getting click baited.

Yes! This is exactly the reason I created it. No more spending 10 minutes to understand something that can be understood in 30 seconds

Re: Show HN: YouTube Summary CLI

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Post by mmaorc » Tue, May 30, 2023, 3:03 PM UTC

bharat24 wrote: post #4

Good idea. Will try it out. Where did you find those youtube libraries ? Are they 3rd party or provided by youtube itself ?

3rd parties. The libraries are youtube-transcript-api and yt-dlp.