Show HN: Tldw – Python package to summarize YouTube videos (opens in new tab)

Sometimes you don't have 40 minutes to focus as someone slowly edges around a topic until coming to a point. Whether you're researching, screening educational content, or deciding if a conference talk is worth your time, tldw gives you an almost instant summary of what a YouTube video covers.

To use this just do:

  from tldw import tldw
  import os

  summary = tldw(os.environ.get('OPENAI_API_KEY'))
  summary.summarize('https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCEmiRjPEtQ')

I was originally inspired by a post I saw here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44376989, so I decided to make a more automated version of this.

I originally tried building this as a web application for better user experience, but retrieving YouTube subtitles from cloud provider IP ranges isn't trivial. It would require residential proxies, which was out of scope for a hobby project cost-wise.

Let me know what your thoughts are, feedback is a gift!