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YTRecap

YTRecap (https://ytrecap.org) is a web application that uses the YouTube Data API to retrieve the closed captions of a YouTube video, and then passes them to an AI model to generate a summary of the video content. The application is built using Python Flask

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Getting Started

To use the YT-Recap application, follow these steps:

  1. Clone the repository:

    git clone https://github.com/nicktill/YTRecap.git

  2. Set up virtual environment:

    cd yt-recap
python3 -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate (macOS/Linux)
venv\Scripts\activate (Windows)

  3. Install required packages:

    pip install -r requirements.txt

  4. Set up environment variables: Create a file named .env in the /src directory of the repo to store your YouTube API key and OpenAI API key. The structure should be as follows:

    YT_KEY='YOUR_YOUTUBE_API_KEY'
OPENAI_KEY='YOUR_OPENAI_API_KEY'

  5. Run the application:

    cd src
python3 app.py