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/

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milkshift · 1h 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 · 1h ago

looks cool plus its open source

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