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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

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tonypai
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?

mmaorc
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.

bharat24
Good idea. Will try it out. Where did you find those youtube libraries ? Are they 3rd party or provided by youtube itself ?
mmaorc
3rd parties. The libraries are youtube-transcript-api and yt-dlp.
mehmet_mhy
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.
mmaorc
Yes! This is exactly the reason I created it. No more spending 10 minutes to understand something that can be understood in 30 seconds