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Products that do what YouTubeTLDR – A lightweight, self-hosted YouTube summarizer in Rust does
There are many commercial YouTube summarizers, but I couldn't find an open-source one that truly fit my needs. So, I built YouTubeTLDR: a simple, self-hostable solution that uses the Gemini API without much bloat. I went with a synchronous approach + threading which was a nice break from Tokio. It is Bring Your Own Key, but the key is sent to the server for each request, which is something I might revise in the future. There is a demo on https://youtubetldr.onrender.com/
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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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2023 · summarize.tech
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I'm excited to share a project. It's a Python script that utilizes the LangChain framework and the ChatOllama model to generate concise summaries from webpages and YouTube videos. For those preferring a graphical interface, it includes a Gradio app that runs in the browser to use the summarizer interactively. Easily containerize and deploy the summarizer with Docker. The tool is perfect for anyone needing quick insights without reading through the entire content/ It's open for contributions, so if you're interested in improving or extending its functionalities, feel free to dive in!
2024 · github.com
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Summarize YouTube videos using your own AI API key
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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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Hey folks! My weekend project, Summify.io, has officially launched! It's an AI-driven tool that simplifies your life by summarizing YouTube videos in just a single click. Now, you can get the gist of those long vids without breaking a sweat! Built from the ground up as a solo developer, it's been an incredible journey full of late nights, countless coffees, and the spirit of indie hacking The amazing response from our private release has motivated me on to start building even more features. Can't wait for you to check it out and share your thoughts! Try Summify.io now and let's me know what…
2023 · summify.io
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"Game" is a stretch, but I put together this repo containing a pure Rust app which uses SDL2 and compiles to WASM (and can be run in a browser). Older resources were a bit out of date and a bit too verbose for my purposes, so here's a minimal working example.
2024 · github.com
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Hello HN! Between academics and everything else on my plate, I still find myself watching way too many YouTube videos. So I built `youtubegist` - just add `gist` after `youtube` in any video URL to get an instant summary. Before: https://youtube.com/watch?v= After: https://youtubegist.com/watch?v= I know there are other YouTube summarization tools, but they're either cluttered, paywalled, or don't format summaries the way I need them. So I made my own that's free, open source, and dead simple. One cool thing, if you install it as a PWA (on Android using Google…
2025 · youtubegist.com
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Hey, it’s Brendan – creator of Vid2Sum, a free AI-powered YouTube summarizer. I built this to help people save time by getting the key takeaways from long videos instantly. You can try it here: www.vid2sum.com I made this because, like many of you, I often find myself jumping around in YouTube videos, trying to find the most relevant parts. Instead of scrubbing through hours of content, I wanted an AI tool that could generate concise summaries in seconds. Making this effective required optimizing three key things: accuracy, speed, and usability. The AI had to generate relevant summaries…
2025 · vid2sum.com
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Live demo here: http://fonctionlabs.com:8000 Similarly to aka_sh (guess we were working parallelly on similar topics), I created with my brother a chainlit-based webapp, which summarizes Youtube videos in order to gain time. It works as an RAG-based LLM, and is very light in the sense that it does not use RAG libraries like langchain or llamaindex. You can use it with your own OpenAI API key. It also supports local models like Mistral, or Llamma. It is ofc open-source, and you can deploy with Docker if you choose. Some of the next steps are: - using whisper to be able to compute a…
2024 · github.com
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Unlock lifetime YouTube wisdom. Your API keys, your freedom
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