Introduction to the YouTube Video Captions Project

Get an overview of the YouTube video captions project that we will create in this chapter.

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What is this project about?

In this chapter we'll build another interesting project based on YouTube videos. We will create a web application that will accept a YouTube video's ID and using the ID, we will provide the user to perform four actions:

  1. Fetch the captions from the video: This feature uses OpenAI's whisper model to convert audio into text.

  2. Summarize the video: From the captions, we will use OpenAI chat completions endpoint to summarize the text (caption).

  3. Rewrite the summarized text: Once the summary is generated, the user will get an option to rewrite the summarized text in case it does not look good.

  4. Copy to clipboard: Once the final text is shown in the text area of the web page, the user will get a button to copy the text to the clipboard using the navigator object available in browser JavaScript.

A YouTube video’s ID can be fetched from any YouTube video that you are watching. Every YouTube video has a URL similar to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h02ti0Bl6zk, which contains the YouTube video ID. The value of the query parameter v in the above URL i.e., h02ti0Bl6zk is the YouTube video ID.

You can view the final version of our project below:

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