YTRecap- Summarize any youtube video in seconds

[craggy glade]

YouTube is overflowing with content making it difficult to always keep up to date with all the videos we need to watch. In light of this, I decided to create YTRecap (https://ytrecap.org), a simple app that summarizes any YouTube video, allowing you to stay informed without spending hours watching! 🚀

By using closed captions and passing them to the language model provided by OpenAI, YTRecap can extract key information from videos and present it in a concise, digestible format.

For more information about YTRecap, see below 😁

Site: https://ytrecap.org
Github: https://github.com/nicktill/ytrecap

PLEASE the repo above if you enjoy the project! (they are greatly appreciated)

⚠️ If you're a developer and would like to help, feel free to open a PR/and or reach out- I'm only a college student so would love to collaborate!

[tropic kraken]

nice

[pliant token]

impressive

[vocal reef]

Good job, very nice

[ivory summit]

Wow this is neat nice

[craggy glade]

thank you, feel free to demo it above and lmk if you have any suggestions/and or run into issues! 😄

[ivory summit]

Yea I'll definitely try it out in a bit

[simple solstice]

cool project, im making something similar !

[fallow oxide]

Very good idea but I want information from the video not just what it is about. Right now it basically serves as a tool to help me decide if I want to watch it or not, not recapping it. Well implementation though.

[craggy glade]

@fallow oxide For all videos that are under ~20m, it should tell you very specific information about the video if you specify a 'long' summary. For videos under 20m, it will parse the closed captions of the said video and create summaries based on the specific dialogue from the video - which should contain information from the video, not just what general information about what it's about.

If you still feel it does not do that, please can you provide the video URL for which you feel the summary is poor?

Thank you so much for the feedback, it's greatly appreciated @fallow oxide

@simple solstice I really like the idea of integrating it with Youtube as an extension, maybe you could add a button to reveal the summary, rather than automatically showing it?? None the less I really like your way of tackling that problem 😄 !

Also if you can, please feel free to give the Discord post a reaction, it helps a ton with having more people see it and keeping it under relevant #1037561385070112779

[fallow oxide]

Yes it is almost an hour long video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAedYtUredI&t=259s but yeah it gives no information, only the broad topics it discusses in the video.

[craggy glade]

Ah I see now what you were saying. For videos longer than 20m, the current implementation will give a general overview/summary of the video.

Once the OpenAI API allows developers to send more tokens to the API (i.e, send more closed captions to the API for longer summaries) it will improve the ability to summarize longer videos. Currently we can only summarize ~20m videos while passing all the captions to the API, while longer videos will summarize based on other meta data for the video and give general concept overviews.

GPT4 (currently on waitlist) has up to 32K tokens available, which is 8x the amount of model being used. Once GPT4 is publicly available for developers, it should be able to summarize much longer videos.