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Summary Cat, a YouTube Video Summary Generator

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…

Summary Cat, a YouTube Video Summary Generator launched on September 22, 2023 with 41 votes, #1,316 of 4,228 launches that month and more than 90% of that year's launches.

In plain words

Summary Cat is a YouTube video summarizer that uses OpenAI's GPT-3.5 to generate concise summaries from video transcripts. It works with English-language videos of moderate length and extracts transcripts before processing them through the language model. The tool features a simple HTML/CSS frontend with a Python/Flask backend, making it accessible for viewers who want quick summaries without watching full videos.

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In the maker’s words, at launch

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…

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