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Yes. I made two recently. - TalkToYoutuber[1]: Download the transcripts from a youtube channel and hook it up to gtp4 with RAG to let me "talk" to youtubers. T
by fardinahsan 2y ago
Yes. I made two recently.
- TalkToYoutuber[1]: Download the transcripts from a youtube channel and hook it up to gtp4 with RAG to let me "talk" to youtubers. There's a bunch of youtubers who have useful knowledge to share, but no blog or wiki, so semantic searching their video transcripts is the next best thing.
- YoutubeThumbnailSearch[2] - Embded all of a youtube channels thumbnails using CLIP and search them using text. I often need to search through news channels with 10k+ videos, often in foreign languages, so not having to rely on the title or transcript but the video thumbnail helps. This is a much more niche usecase tbf.
I am thinking of making a scaled down version of [1] so I can "talk" to long videos, like conference speeches or university lectures. Should take an hour or two to cook it up since it will reuse most of the code from [1].
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[1] https://github.com/FardinAhsan146/TalkToYoutuber https://github.com/FardinAhsan146/TalkToYoutuber
[2] https://github.com/FardinAhsan146/YoutubeThumbnailSearch https://github.com/FardinAhsan146/YoutubeThumbnailSearch
- floydianspiral 2y agothis is a really cool project, you should send it to people at youtube, get a job there and implement this in their sidebar...
- fardinahsan 2y agoThe projects are dead simple. I think if Youtube wanted to, the would have implemented this long back. It's probably a legal landmine and financial tar pit. But thanks nevertheless.
- roughly 2y agoYou’d be shocked at how hard it is to fund, start, and ship even a basic project at a company the size of YT or anything else in the Google/Alphabetaverse. It’s probably also a legal landmine and all that, but organizational friction’s more than sufficient to explain simple useful features failing to ship.
- satvikpendem 2y agoDon't forget how Google incentivizes projects, one gets promoted for shipping the project, not for maintaining it. If indeed this were shipped at YouTube, I wouldn't be surprised if it gets slowly deprecated or outright shuttered in a few years. It's better to keep it open source for everyone.
- magicpin 2y agoSomething like talktoyoutuber would also be very useful for certain discord servers. They'll have a lot of knowledge on something but will gatekeep it with "just use the search." and they'll refuse to build a wiki or really engage in any kind of organization.
- fardinahsan 2y agoI can cook it up if it would actually get some users. Ultimately, I want to make a tool where you can plug in any arbitrary document store/scraper to an LLM with RAG. But I think we are still not there yet in terms of all purpose scrapers.
- stogot 2y ago> I am thinking of making a scaled down version of [1] so I can "talk" to long videos, like conference speeches or university lectures. Should take an hour or two to cook it up since it will reuse most of the code from [1]. This would be useful to me as well. If you do end up making it, could you reference it on your existingGithub
- fardinahsan 2y agoYeah, I'll add a reference to it. Are you watching the repo ?