Show HN: YouTubeTLDR – A lightweight, self-hosted YouTube summarizer in Rust

6 milkshift 3 7/24/2025, 2:47:37 PM github.com ↗

There are many commercial YouTube summarizers, but I couldn't find an open-source one that truly fit my needs. So, I built YouTubeTLDR: a simple, self-hostable solution that uses the Gemini API without much bloat.

I went with a synchronous approach + threading which was a nice break from Tokio.

It is Bring Your Own Key, but the key is sent to the server for each request, which is something I might revise in the future.

There is a demo on https://youtubetldr.onrender.com/

Comments (3)

blkidx0703 · 4h ago

I tried it, very useful!

milkshift · 1d ago

There seems to be a bug in the demo causing "INNERTUBE_API_KEY not found" errors, seeing what I can do

Edit: Google detects suspicious activity and sends a captcha for Render's IP. Sorry I didn't check earlier!

KodyBerns99 · 1d ago

looks cool plus its open source

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