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Would you be able to pull the transcript from YouTube for editing/commenting? That would be really useful for me. In the future it would be great to have these

Would you be able to pull the transcript from YouTube for editing/commenting? That would be really useful for me. In the future it would be great to have these notes sync/push to RoamResearch

matiastucci 6y ago
Yeah, I have that in my backlog. I still need to take a look and see how hard it is. Thanks for the feedback!
- lysp 6y ago
  That was my initial thoughts too. Basically show the subtitles as it's going along (last 10-20 seconds), and allow a user to copy/paste text or instantly grab sentences.
dwhly 6y ago
You can do this now using Hypothesis at docdrop.org-- just pick a youtube video and add URL.
- matiastucci 6y ago
  didn't know about docdrop, I thought it was similar to Annotate.tv but I got: "Our video annotation capability works for YouTube videos that have either human or machine-generated transcripts.". That's not a requisite on Annotate.
  - dwhly 6y ago
    You need to choose a YT video that has a auto-generated transcript. About 80%+ videos do I think. Choose another one. Docdrop+Hypothesis only works on transcripts-- it's not a timecode video annotator.
    - matiastucci 6y ago
      yeah, I just tried it. It's pretty good!
benrbray 6y ago
> In the future it would be great to have these notes sync/push to RoamResearch Or, an open-source alternative like Zettlr, Logseq, or Athens (coming soon): https://github.com/athensresearch/athens https://github.com/athensresearch/athens In general, we shouldn't let expensive paid software like Roam leech value from plugins made by volunteers!
- ssalka 6y ago
  People are going to build for the tools that have strong network effects. Those Roam clones you mention have none at the present moment. And I don't see how a Roam Research integration would be "leeching value," especially because it will eventually be possible to build paid plugins for Roam, which opens the revenue door for devs building plugins.
eruleman 6y ago
I've been listening to podcasts on YouTube, running RoamNER [0] on the transcript, and inputting the result into Roam. [0] https://github.com/hmprt/RoamNER https://github.com/hmprt/RoamNER

Would you be able to pull the transcript from YouTube for editing/commenting? That would be really useful for me. In the future it would be great to have these notes sync/push to RoamResearch

matiastucci 6y ago

Yeah, I have that in my backlog. I still need to take a look and see how hard it is. Thanks for the feedback!

lysp 6y ago
That was my initial thoughts too. Basically show the subtitles as it's going along (last 10-20 seconds), and allow a user to copy/paste text or instantly grab sentences.

dwhly 6y ago

You can do this now using Hypothesis at docdrop.org-- just pick a youtube video and add URL.

matiastucci 6y ago
didn't know about docdrop, I thought it was similar to Annotate.tv but I got: "Our video annotation capability works for YouTube videos that have either human or machine-generated transcripts.". That's not a requisite on Annotate.
- dwhly 6y ago
  You need to choose a YT video that has a auto-generated transcript. About 80%+ videos do I think. Choose another one. Docdrop+Hypothesis only works on transcripts-- it's not a timecode video annotator.
  - matiastucci 6y ago
    yeah, I just tried it. It's pretty good!

benrbray 6y ago

> In the future it would be great to have these notes sync/push to RoamResearch Or, an open-source alternative like Zettlr, Logseq, or Athens (coming soon): https://github.com/athensresearch/athens https://github.com/athensresearch/athens In general, we shouldn't let expensive paid software like Roam leech value from plugins made by volunteers!

ssalka 6y ago
People are going to build for the tools that have strong network effects. Those Roam clones you mention have none at the present moment. And I don't see how a Roam Research integration would be "leeching value," especially because it will eventually be possible to build paid plugins for Roam, which opens the revenue door for devs building plugins.

eruleman 6y ago

I've been listening to podcasts on YouTube, running RoamNER [0] on the transcript, and inputting the result into Roam. [0] https://github.com/hmprt/RoamNER https://github.com/hmprt/RoamNER