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0 pointsfardinahsan1y ago0 comments

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

[2] https://github.com/FardinAhsan146/YoutubeThumbnailSearch

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magicpin1y ago

Something 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.

fardinahsanOP1y ago

I 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.

stogot1y 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

fardinahsanOP1y ago

Yeah, I'll add a reference to it. Are you watching the repo ?

floydianspiral1y ago

this is a really cool project, you should send it to people at youtube, get a job there and implement this in their sidebar...

fardinahsanOP1y ago

The 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.

roughly1y ago

You’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.

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0 pointsfardinahsan1y ago0 comments

Yes. I made two recently.

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[1] https://github.com/FardinAhsan146/TalkToYoutuber

[2] https://github.com/FardinAhsan146/YoutubeThumbnailSearch

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magicpin1y ago

fardinahsanOP1y ago

I 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.

stogot1y ago

This would be useful to me as well. If you do end up making it, could you reference it on your existingGithub

fardinahsanOP1y ago

Yeah, I'll add a reference to it. Are you watching the repo ?

floydianspiral1y ago

this is a really cool project, you should send it to people at youtube, get a job there and implement this in their sidebar...

fardinahsanOP1y ago

The 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.

roughly1y ago

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