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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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Hi, I'm Alex. I created Eightify to take my mind off things during a weekend, but I was surprised that my friends were genuinely interested in it. I kept going, and now it's been nine weeks since I started. I got the idea to summarize videos when my friend sent me a lengthy video again. This happens to me often; the video title is so enticing, and then it turns out to be nothing. I had been working with GPT for 6 months by the time, so everything looked like a nail to me. It's a Chrome extension, and I'm offering 5 free tries for videos under an hour. After that, you have to buy a package.…
2023 · eightify.app
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Hello HN! Please check out Summary Cat (https://www.summarycat.com). It uses OpenAI's GPT-3.5 to summarize YouTube transcripts. Please note that it only works for - *English* videos. - videos that are not too long in length. I'd appreciate any feedbacks, criticisms, or feature requests!! You can also find my contact info in my profile. Thank you in advance. ------------Technical Details--------------- Tech Stack - Frontend: HTML/CSS - Backend: Python/Flask APIs: - For grabbing YouTube's transcripts: I used youtube-transcript-api…
2023 · summarycat.com
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Hi all! I put together a website that summarizes youtube videos. Enter any YouTube URL, and it will give you an overall summary, individual chapter summaries, along with key video frames. Here are a few examples: https://www.videogist.co/videos/tips-for-technical-startup-f... https://www.videogist.co/videos/openai-devday-opening-keynot... https://www.videogist.co/videos/cbs-evening-news-full-episod... https://www.videogist.co/videos/the-best-easy-miso-salmon-re... I'd love to hear feedback - if it's useful (or…
2023 · videogist.co
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2024 · chromewebstore.google.com
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I created a simple CLI that turns a YouTube guitar-lesson video into a PDF of the guitar tab. There are services that transcribe music from Youtube videos into tabs, but they never work well enough for me. Instead I'm taking a simpler approach. It downloads the video, samples frames, uses Claude vision to locate the tab region, crops every frame to that region, de-duplicates the crops by the bar number printed on each line of the score, and stitches the distinct tab lines vertically into a PDF. I didn't test it on a lot of different Youtube videos yet, so problem will arise for sure.
Jul 2026 · github.com
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