[HN Gopher] Get The TLDR Of Any YouTube Video
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Get The TLDR Of Any YouTube Video
Author : belter
Score : 193 points
Date : 2023-04-29 17:07 UTC (5 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (www.you-tldr.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.you-tldr.com)
| niels_bom wrote:
| Would be a nice product to offer to media companies that have a
| lot of video content.
| bazinga30 wrote:
| videohighlight.com is another option, mostly focused on note
| taking. There are no limits so far.
| adamkochanowicz wrote:
| I use
| https://kagi.com/summarizer/index.html?url=&target_language=...
| which summarizes YouTube, articles, books, links...
| _puk wrote:
| "You can summarize many types of web content, including:
|
| Text web pages, articles, and forum threads PDF documents
| PowerPoint documents (.pptx) Audio files (mp3/wav) YouTube
| URLs"...
|
| It doesn't actually state video, do you know if it's
| summarizing the actual YouTube video, or the subtitles?
|
| Whilst they may seem the same, I can see the former being able
| to be refined over time based on e.g. in scene visual context
| textninja wrote:
| It appears to summarize the subtitles alone. I asked it to
| summarize a video that didn't have subtitles (silent film)
| and it refused.
|
| Edit: I missed some of the context, comment above is re you-
| tldr, not kagi which I haven't tried.
| [deleted]
| ta1243 wrote:
| > Daily Limit Reached
|
| > You've reached the daily limit of summaries allowed.
|
| On the first successful video (the first video I tried didn't
| have subtitles)
| numpad0 wrote:
| Same here, maybe they ran out of trial budget for a day
| considering it's been 3 hours since this is posted.
| andy_ppp wrote:
| I was starting to build this! Great idea, all we need is a
| flawless talking head to read it to us before every video to see
| if we should watch it!
| _the_inflator wrote:
| Ok, someone has to mention it: TLDW would be more precise. ;)
| throwbadubadu wrote:
| TLADW actually.. (A for the ad) - great service! Now please we
| need a bot that posts the summary under every youtube
| submission.
| textninja wrote:
| Chrome extension maybe?
| [deleted]
| 404mm wrote:
| I'm not sure. I tried one video and got:
|
| Something went wrong! The video could be missing subtitles for
| the language you selected.
|
| So it was TLDR in my case. Almost.
| bazinga30 wrote:
| https://videohighlight.com/ is another option, mostly focused on
| note taking.
|
| There are no limits so at this stage.
| ashellunts wrote:
| I have also built similar thing.
| https://github.com/ashellunts/youtube-summarizer
|
| From time to time, it is useful for me.
|
| https://youtube-summarizer.ashellunts.repl.co
| pdevr wrote:
| I got an internal server error. Looks like your site was also
| hugged to death? Will try later.
| pdevr wrote:
| You have a typo ("wihthout") in both prompts, which are both
| (apparently) handled correctly by OpenAI - too lazy to send a
| PR :)
| Technetium wrote:
| I've been using Glarity to do this for free without leaving
| YouTube. Site: https://glarity.app Source:
| https://github.com/sparticleinc/chatgpt-google-summary-exten...
| messe wrote:
| I built a similar thing with the GPT-4 APIs a few weeks ago;
| thanks for the reminder that I must put it on GitHub at some
| point, as it's only about 30 lines of code.
| drewrbaker wrote:
| I need this, but for Vimeo videos.
| messe wrote:
| It should be doable. What I built only works for videos with
| transcripts, but I've been looking to improve it using
| OpenAI's Whisper for Speech-To-Text. I'm just lazy so I
| haven't gotten around to it (...which is why I spent an hour
| throwing together a 30-line script to summarize youtube
| videos for me)
| f0e4c2f7 wrote:
| For you or anyone else reading this I recently ran across
| this video documenting setting up and using whisper. It's
| probably a little overdetailed, but I found the github docs
| a little underdetailed so might be useful. Whisper is
| pretty powerful. One of the more useful open source ai
| tools available right now.
|
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XX-ET_-onYU
|
| But as you implied in your comment, it should be possible
| to do it quite well with any video by transcripting with
| whisper and then sending the text to gpt or another LLM to
| summarize.
| cced wrote:
| I'm currently working on this with the caveat that I want
| to do the work locally. Using whisper but the
| summarization portion if this task is not straightforward
| given the limited context size of models.
|
| Does anyone have any additional insight into this
| problem?
| messe wrote:
| I'll check it out (or maybe let my script check it out
| first), thanks.
|
| From what I remember the Whisper API docs weren't too
| bad, but I didn't try actually implementing anything, so
| you could be right that they're underdetailed.
| sethgecko wrote:
| I've done something similar here
| https://github.com/mcdallas/summarize it feeds an audio
| file to whisper and then summarizes the transcript. You
| can easily wrap it with yt-dlp to download the audio
| portion of a video
| mkagenius wrote:
| I also did the same but its a web app,
| https://github.com/mkagenius/audioGPT (i also have it
| hosted but I am afraid if i post the link, it would eat
| through all my credits)
| belter wrote:
| Maybe one for TikTok videos? Would be the scourge of
| influencers...
| gregw134 wrote:
| Please do. Curious how you transform a YouTube video to text
| before sending to chatgpt?
| jy1 wrote:
| Youtube offers transcripts / cc
| sunshadow wrote:
| https://github.com/musabgultekin/youtube-
| tldw/blob/main/main...
| messe wrote:
| Yep, it's pretty much that except using GPT-4 and a wider
| context.
| wand3r wrote:
| The GPT4 API is not generally available yet right? At least for
| the public?
| messe wrote:
| You can apply for access, and you'll be added to a waiting
| list. I only have access to the GPT4 API with 8K context, not
| 32K.
| rolisz wrote:
| No :(. I applied several weeks ago and I still don't have
| access
| permo-w wrote:
| it's accessible via the beta. they gave me access after a day
| or two of waiting, but I don't know if that's typical or not
| sebzim4500 wrote:
| There's a waiting list. I applied on the first day and only
| just got access.
| ajhai wrote:
| We let users build similar apps at https://trypromptly.com
| without writing code
|
| When YouTube urls are used, we extract audio and transcribe it so
| users can either save as datasource or pass that content to other
| LLMs.
|
| Ask YC
| (https://trypromptly.com/app/bd0a3f40-44a9-4789-b3d6-ec185134...)
| is an app built with content from YC startup library and some of
| them are YouTube videos
| sva_ wrote:
| Shouldn't it be TLDW? (Too Long, Didn't Watch)
| lisper wrote:
| Yes, it should. Does it matter? No, it does not.
| ehsankia wrote:
| technically it's not summarizing the video. It's summarizing
| the transcript of the video. So if it's a silent video with no
| spoken words, it likely won't do anything. So it is tl;dr of
| the spoken words, as parsed by Youtube ML since most videos
| don't have provided transcripts, though some do.
| amelius wrote:
| When will we get GPT that can watch video and make sense of
| it?
| ehsankia wrote:
| There are already many models for describing images, and
| Midjourney has a "/describe" feature now which takes a
| photo and turns it back into a text prompt. Only a matter
| of time until we can do video.
| sunshadow wrote:
| Just made open source version of it (core):
| https://github.com/musabgultekin/youtube-tldw
| sdjcse1 wrote:
| https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7057961...
| youniverse wrote:
| I've been using https://youtubetranscript.com and then having
| GPT4 summarize but admittedly it will miss some things and for
| example a marketing video you it might miss the one interesting
| thing that I'd want to hear in the summary.
|
| Will give this and other things in the thread a shot!
| thr0waway001 wrote:
| Wanted to summarize "Stu pickles makes Pudding at 4AM in the
| morning" but I reached the daily limit. First video.
|
| Ok then. _shrug_
| XCSme wrote:
| [dead]
| fallat wrote:
| Where's the one that takes screenshots, I like that better
| MikeSchurman wrote:
| Looks useful.
|
| Suggestion: as a non-paying user I don't immediately know what
| the chat tab does. You can find out under the pricing tab but
| it's not obvious where to find this information. Might be good to
| say what it does on the chat tab if you're not a paid user.
| dang wrote:
| Related:
|
| _Show HN: You-tldr-Summarize and Interact with YouTube Videos in
| your language_ - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35280312 -
| March 2023 (2 comments)
|
| _Show HN: You-tldr - easy-to-read transcripts of Youtube videos_
| - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26048946 - Feb 2021 (72
| comments)
| belter wrote:
| Do you ever sleep? :-)
| joanne123 wrote:
| [flagged]
| swampthinker wrote:
| @dang serial spammer
| hasseldahoff wrote:
| This seems to be a spam account for hacking services. This
| account should be nuked.
| rsiqueira wrote:
| "Summarize Tech" is a similar tool: Get a summary of any long
| YouTube video, like a lecture, live event or a government
| meeting. Powered by ChatGPT. https://www.summarize.tech/ Pros: It
| can summarize larger videos for free. Cons: no chat, English
| only, no full transcript viewer, no settings, no transcript
| download.
| atum47 wrote:
| This is awesome. It described my video better than I can do it
| myself.
| axpy906 wrote:
| This is way better. Than the first one. It was able to process
| a YouTube live video with it.
| chpatrick wrote:
| How does that handle videos longer than the token limit?
| ashellunts wrote:
| Split to smaller chunks, summarize them. Then summarize
| summaries.
| prettyStandard wrote:
| You might want to overlap the first pass of chunks,
| something could get lost at the chunk boundaries. Not any
| sort of expert on this sort of thing, it just seems like an
| obvious pitfall for the context length.
| textninja wrote:
| I really like this idea. It's basically applying similar
| principles as are used in image based nets - i.e. sliding
| window convolutional kernels - to text.
| peterhunt wrote:
| I built summarize.tech
|
| Yes it's a great idea and I have a version that is
| basically a convolution over the transcript. It works
| much better than the current version - it can
| automatically create cohesive chapters and summaries of
| those chapters - however, it consumes an order of
| magnitude more ChatGPT API calls making it uneconomical
| (for now!)
| moneywoes wrote:
| Can you please eli5 the difference of old and new?
| justinator wrote:
| Summary worked flawlessly on my own video.
| bena wrote:
| So first I tried it on a video that was too long. It produced a
| transcript though. Which is something. But it was an easy test. I
| chose an episode of a television show that is uploaded to
| YouTube.
|
| So I said, "fuck it", and chose a more difficult example. A video
| with no talking. It's just music and images. Some algodoo/Unity
| physics sandbox marble competition our son likes to watch.
|
| It just gave up.
|
| Then I was going to try another short video with talking, but
| apparently you only get one summary.
|
| So, it _seems_ like it 's a way to generate transcripts of videos
| and have _that_ summarized. Neat, but not exactly what 's being
| advertised.
| dexterdog wrote:
| Hey, at least you got one. I tried one and it said my limit was
| reached.
| okdood64 wrote:
| > It produced a transcript though. Which is something.
|
| You can get those directly in YouTube, so not really something.
|
| It's a shame; it said throttled on the first and second video I
| tried.
| amiga386 wrote:
| For those that don't know how:
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| 1. Watch a Youtube video which has subtitles
|
| 2. Click the "..." button below the video, then "Show
| Transcript"
|
| So many people don't know about this, it's crazy.
| [deleted]
| themodelplumber wrote:
| It's really restricted for free-tryout users. I'm not sure why
| it's so restricted though.
|
| Seems like it might be helpful to offer a 1-5x try-out of videos
| up to 2 hours and then go down from there? I went straight for 1+
| hour YT videos that came to mind, but was told to upgrade.
|
| Ideally this experience could be smoothed out a bit, especially
| since the transcript is in some cases functionally unreadable and
| jarringly different from a summary.
| davidthewatson wrote:
| The tool is solid and delivers priceless value proposition for
| someone like me who learns by reading not by listening.
|
| Bravo!
| kodt wrote:
| Appears to only work if the video has subtitles.
| f0e4c2f7 wrote:
| Wow! I love everything about this! Great product, great pricing
| model. I tried it out on a video I had recently watched and can
| confirm it works well. Giving away free summaries without even
| requiring a login feels very generous whereas the videos I really
| want to pop in are longer than the free tier allows. But the
| pricing still seems more than fair.
|
| Very cool product, excited to use it more. Have you considered
| adding browser extension functionality? A one click button on
| each youtube video might be nice.
| itsthecourier wrote:
| Trying to summarize "Rick rolling"
| super256 wrote:
| I wish there was pay for usage instead of a monthly sub.
| [deleted]
| raverbashing wrote:
| Looks useful
|
| There are creators that put out videos with potential but they're
| very bad at editing or just drag on and on about stuff.
|
| As much as Shorts have, well, pushed for shorter videos, a lot of
| the longer videos need to get better at getting to the point. It
| doesn't have to be a short video, but think about the value
| you're adding by keeping something in the video instead of taking
| it out.
| AkBKukU wrote:
| I am a person who produces videos to publish on Youtube, and I
| want to add a different perspective to this.
|
| Here is where we are currently at: - Everyone complains about the
| ads, so they install adblock. - Ads become worthless on Youtube
| for smaller creators, so they start taking sponsorships. -
| Everyone complains about the sponsors, they call creators shills
| and sponsorblock is gaining traction to block them. - Smaller
| creators shift to being dependent on direct support (Patreon,
| etc.)
|
| Here is where we are going: - People complain a video is too
| long, so they extract the data directly avoiding youtube. - The
| creators don't get ads, don't get people to understand the effort
| put in and support directly, and don't get views. The videos just
| don't get watched.
|
| A feedback loop is happening here where every possible method
| that allows making quality Youtube content sustainable is
| becoming impossible. The fact that anyone here is willing to pay
| for this service that will destroy the last shreds of this is
| extremely disheartening.
|
| If you stop watching videos, there will be no reason to make the
| videos.
| louison11 wrote:
| I'd say that if people spend less time on YouTube, that's
| probably a good thing. I think people are just getting bored of
| social media/YouTube now that's it's lost its novelty. It feels
| super leveraged now, and hard to find the real substance. There
| is a return to long-form media like Podcasts, audiobooks, or
| books for this reason. Maybe people are also realizing there is
| only so much information they can absorb, and they'd rather
| absorb less, but of higher quality, than consume random videos.
| jtbayly wrote:
| That seems very reasonable to me. If I _wanted_ to watch a long
| video, I wouldn't use this service.
|
| You are complaining that people don't want what you are
| selling.
| sv123 wrote:
| I wouldn't feel too disheartened just yet, if people wanted to
| read instead of watch videos then we all would've stuck with
| blogger, or even just go back to usenet. As you can see in the
| comments here, these services are a dime a dozen. Seems like
| everybody and their mother have made a youtube summarizer, its
| like the todo list app of the ChatGPT api.
| syngrog66 wrote:
| summary. or synopsis
|
| lets kill that already-anachronistic hipster acronym. ideally
| with fire
|
| (LKTAAHA;IWF)
|
| also: kids, get off my lawn
| umaar wrote:
| If anyone wants to self-host these YouTube summary tools, made a
| video on exactly how to do that here https://youtu.be/dqtliRSLmQo
| lukeasch21 wrote:
| This tutorial video is way too long... If only there was a tool
| to summarize it into text using AI....
| kpennell wrote:
| didn't get to try - Daily Limit Reached
|
| You've reached the daily limit of summaries allowed.
|
| Please upgrade to Pro to continue using the service.
| ehsankia wrote:
| Tried it and immediately says I'm out of quota? Probably got
| hugged to death by HN?
| s3p wrote:
| same here.
| justinator wrote:
| I reached the daily limit on the first video I tried to
| summarize.
| eimrine wrote:
| I would like to get a sum of "Linux Full Course 11 hours" but
| in 666 words.
| Animats wrote:
| Yeah. I tried two videos. The site demanded money because it
| was too long. Then I tried a shorter one, and the site demanded
| money because I'd reached my daily limit.
|
| Is this for real?
| dean2432 wrote:
| me too.
| tdiggity wrote:
| It said I reached the daily limit on the first video I entered
| and didn't even give me a summary :(
| ImPostingOnHN wrote:
| same, not a great user experience, why would I pay money when
| you've already shown me you fail at doing the thing?
| asmor wrote:
| The transcript is really bad for a podcast I tried, I'm almost
| certain that's OpenAIs whisper, which when I tested wasn't very
| accurate when people don't speak extremely clearly or over each
| other.
| rado wrote:
| "You've reached the daily limit of summaries allowed"
| fmeyer wrote:
| I've built the same thing using chatGPT, it doesn't handle large
| content yet, but it's good enough to filter the majority of
| videos and help me decide if I should watch it or not.
|
| some sample here
|
| https://gist.github.com/fmeyer/87fce5279bb06e215828e7732fed7...
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| code: https://github.com/fmeyer/tldw
|
| ps: don't mind my crappy rust.
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