Show HN: Generate Anki Decks from YouTube Videos to Anki Converter
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1 day ago
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Hello!

I love anki and have been using it for years to learn mandarin, but I'm lazy and always struggled to get over the "motivation hump" to sit down and create a deck.

Recently I've been consuming a lot of AI content from youtube, and spent 3 days creating a deck for Andrej Karpathy's "Deep Dive into LLMs" video. This is impractical - so I built a little youtube to anki converter @ asimpleai.com

It's rough around the edges... but I would like it to eventually become something useful to community. Feedback and suggestions are welcome!

peace

cmccand1
17 hours ago
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cmccand1
1 day ago
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Amazing concept! The app is having a hard time finding the transcripts for YouTube videos. It wasn’t able to find a single one that I tried, even older videos. However, I’ve used custom GPT‘s that are able to, for example, provide summaries of YouTube videos successfully so something’s not working for this service. Maybe they’re using speech-to-text when no transcript is available?
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lengxzai
23 hours ago
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thx! can you please paste any links you tried here. I'm going to add some fall back options when youtube-transcript-api can't retrieve a transcript.
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boredemployee
10 hours ago
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I built few months ago a toy project using youtube-transcript-api, but the problem is youtube block IPs after a few downloads.

All the big cloud providers are blocked by default, maybe the trick is doing proxies but then it start to get expensive.

If you have any idea of how to get away with it pls lemme know.

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