How do you deal with YouTube Terms of Service for extracting transcripts?
International copyright agreements, like the Bern Convention, allow usage of content for educational purposes, as long as you're not replacing the original.
Show HN: Anki/Duolingo-like app using educational YouTube videos
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#72Looks great! On a related note, I developed a similar free tool [1] designed for K12 teachers, primary focusing on curation and discovery of educational videos for classroom use.
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#73timestamps on the transcript should be clickable to seek to that time in the video
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#74Earlier quoted context omitted.
This. I don't think most educational content on YouTube is worth remembering (or the best way to spend your time in the first place). So I'd be cautious about an app that helps you memorize the contents of said videos. You might end up with a lot of superficial, clickbaity pieces of knowledge.
I invite you to share your own superior knowledge to the masses via your own YouTube videos so we can learn from you. Until then, I’ll learn from what is made available for others. Post back here once you’ve created some better content so we know where to look.
Papers, textbooks, tech talks, university lectures.
That's where you'll find actual knowledge and not in high production value videos which have to be financially viable for their creators.
It's hardly a secret that Youtube has a problem funding long form videos with a certain depth and instead favors clickbaity, short material. No reason to be offended.
As a rule of thumb I'd say everything with a sponsored segment is entertainment but too shallow for education.
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#75When I saw Anki/Duolingo in the bio I assumed it was for language learning, but this is a great idea! I too often watch these kinds of videos without really retaining a lot. This is a perfect complement to turn infotainment into time well spent, or at least, less wasted.
Same! Maybe someone could do some language learning on top of all the videos we consume on YouTube?
Languagereactor.com seems to implement some form of that
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#76This looks somehow like my app ClipMemo. The difference is that my app require you to create cards (called Memo in the app) by yourself. You select the start & end timestamp and you can review, repeat the clip. Besides YouTube it supports local video or other platform like Bilibili, China's counterpart of YouTube.
I'm not sure wheather my idea works or your work does. I'm also curious about which workaround solve this problem better. You can find ClipMemo on App Store.
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#78I love this, great work!
One note: After submitting a video and answering the questions, the "New Videos to Watch" section appears to be videos similar to the one I uploaded, but may have not been uploaded to PlatoEdu. My expectation was that these were videos others had already uploaded and for which questions had already been generated. So I was surprised when I clicked on one and it started uploading. Had I known it was going to be added I wouldn't have clicked on it, as I'd first want to watch it to verify the content is high quality.
Again, great work. Bookmarked!
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#79Neat. I built a web app to learn languages that used podcasts and YouTube transcriptions too. The problem with YouTube was that their API was very limiting, so I ended up having to use a proxy and some unofficial API to scrape the videos. The whole thing felt very sketchy so I ended up removing the whole YouTube functionality and just focused on podcasts (https://langturbo.com)
I hope you have better luck.
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#80Earlier quoted context omitted.
I invite you to share your own superior knowledge to the masses via your own YouTube videos so we can learn from you. Until then, I’ll learn from what is made available for others. Post back here once you’ve created some better content so we know where to look.
Papers, textbooks, tech talks, university lectures. That's where you'll find actual knowledge and not in high production value videos which have to be financially viable for their creators. It's hardly a secret that Youtube has a problem funding long form videos with a certain depth and instead favors clickbaity, short material. No reason to be offended. As a rule of thumb I'd say everything with a sponsored segment…
> Papers, textbooks, tech talks, university lectures
Perfect list. Tech talks, university lectures (recorded videos) are almost as consumable as YT edu-tainment videos. Papers, books and textbooks are accessible but requires more motivation.
To the parent comment (zadokshi), if YT content is education, why don't the biggest creators make 5-10 videos on a topic, back-to-back? 5-10 is minimum for learning, example Coursera content - I'm not even comparing to semester/yearlong coursework at schools. Because there isn't a demand or incentive for that on YT.