Show HN: YouTubeTldw: ad‑free, login‑free YouTube summaries in a flash
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12 hours ago
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I made an open source, no BS youtube summary website that makes use of the tldw [1] python library to create really quick youtube summaries.

The longer a talk is, the more ad revenue a creator gets. But we don't all have 40 minutes to listen to someone slowly edge around a point.

This website has no ads, no login, and is 100% free.You can find the source code here [2].

[1] https://pypi.org/project/tldw/ [2] https://github.com/DavidZirinsky/tldw-site

elektor
7 hours ago
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I tried it with a Russian YT video and it did not work:

Starting process... Processing URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtkgT6R2HtA Error: Failed to get transcript: Could not retrieve a transcript for the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtkgT6R2HtA! This is most likely caused by:

No transcripts were found for any of the requested language codes: ['en']

For this video (MtkgT6R2HtA) transcripts are available in the following languages:

(MANUALLY CREATED) None

(GENERATED) - ru ("Russian (auto-generated)")[TRANSLATABLE]

(TRANSLATION LANGUAGES) - en ("English")

If you are sure that the described cause is not responsible for this error and that a transcript should be retrievable, please create an issue at https://github.com/jdepoix/youtube-transcript-api/issues. Please add which version of youtube_transcript_api you are using and provide the information needed to replicate the error. Also make sure that there are no open issues which already describe your problem! --- End of summary ---

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dudeWithAMood
6 hours ago
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That's great feedback, I'm working on a fix now
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