TL/DW: Too Long, Didnt Watch

Download, Transcribe & Summarize Videos. All automated

Public Demo

What is TL/DW?

• Take a URL, single video, list of URLs, or list of local videos + URLs and feed it into the script and have each video transcribed (and audio downloaded if not local) using faster-whisper.
• Transcriptions can then be shuffled off to an LLM API endpoint of your choice, whether that be local or remote.
• Rolling summaries (i.e. chunking up input and doing a chain of summaries) is supported only through OpenAI currently, though the scripts here will let you do it with exllama or vLLM.
• Any site supported by yt-dl is supported, so you can use this with sites besides just youtube. ( https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/blob/master/supportedsites.md )

For commercial API usage, I personally recommend Sonnet. It's great quality and relatively inexpensive.

As for personal offline usage, Microsoft Phi-3 Mini 128k is great if you don't have a lot of VRAM and want to self-host. (I think it's better than anything up to 70B for summarization - I do not have actual evidence for this)

Application Demo

CLI

GUI

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Table of Contents

• What?
• Using
• Setup
• Pieces/What's in the Repo
• Setting up a Local LLM Inference Engine
• Credits

Quickstart after Installation

• Transcribe audio from a Youtube URL:

  • python summarize.py https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nd1CDZP21s

• Transcribe audio from a Youtube URL & Summarize it using (anthropic/cohere/openai/llama (llama.cpp)/ooba (oobabooga/text-gen-webui)/kobold (kobold.cpp)/tabby (Tabbyapi)) API:

  • python summarize.py https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nd1CDZP21s -api <your choice of API>
    • Make sure to put your API key into config.txt under the appropriate API variable

• Transcribe a list of Youtube URLs & Summarize them using (anthropic/cohere/openai/llama (llama.cpp)/ooba (oobabooga/text-gen-webui)/kobold (kobold.cpp)/tabby (Tabbyapi)) API:

  • python summarize.py ./ListofVideos.txt -api <your choice of API>
    • Make sure to put your API key into config.txt under the appropriate API variable

• Transcribe & Summarize a List of Videos on your local filesytem with a text file:

  • python summarize.py -v ./local/file_on_your/system

• Download a Video with Audio from a URL:

  • python summarize.py -v https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nd1CDZP21s

• Run it as a WebApp

  • python summarize.py -gui - This requires you to either stuff your API keys into the config.txt file, or pass them into the app every time you want to use it.
    • It will expose every CLI option (not currently/is planned)
    • Has an option to download the generated transcript, and summary as text files.
    • Can also download video/audio as files if selected in the UI (WIP - doesn't currently work)

What?

• Use the script to (download->)transcribe(->summarize) a local file or remote (supported) url.
• What can you transcribe and summarize?
  • Any youtube video. Or video hosted at any of these sites: https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/blob/master/supportedsites.md
    • (Playlists you have to use the Get_Playlist_URLs.py with Get_Playlist_URLs.py <Playlist URL> and it'll create a text file with all the URLs for each video, so you can pass the text file as input and they'll all be downloaded. Pull requests are welcome.)
    • Any url youtube-dl supports should work.
  • Local Videos
    • Pass in the filepath to any local video file, and it will be transcribed.
    • You can also pass in a text file containing a list of videos for batch processing.
• How does it Summarize?
  • Remote Summarization
    • Pass an API name (anthropic/cohere/grok/openai/) as an argument, ex: -api anthropic
    • Add your API key to the config.txt file
    • The script when ran, will detect that you passed an API name, and will perform summarization of the resulting transcription.
  • Local Summarization
    • Alternatively, you can pass llama/ooba/kobold/tabby as the API name and have the script perform a request to your local API endpoint for summarization.
      • You will need to modify the <endpoint_name>_api_IP value in the config.txt to reflect the IP:Port of your local server.
      • Or pass the --api_url argument with the IP:Port to avoid making changes to the config.txt file.
      • If the self-hosted server requires an API key, modify the appropriate api_key variable in the config.txt file.
  • The current approach to summarization is currently 'dumb'/naive, and will likely be replaced or additional functionality added to reflect actual practices and not just 'dump txt in and get an answer' approach. This works for big context LLMs, but not everyone has access to them, and some transcriptions may be even longer, so we need to have an approach that can handle those cases.
• APIs Currently Supported
  1. Anthropic - https://www.anthropic.com/api
  2. Cohere - https://docs.cohere.com/reference/about
  3. Groq - https://docs.api.groq.com/index.html
  4. Llama.cpp - https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp & https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/blob/master/examples/server/README.md
  5. Kobold.cpp - https://github.com/LostRuins/koboldcpp
  6. Oobabooga - https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui
  7. HuggingFace - https://huggingface.co/docs/api-inference/en/index
• Planned to Support
  1. TabbyAPI - https://github.com/theroyallab/tabbyAPI
  2. vLLM - https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm

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Setup

• Linux
  1. Download necessary packages (Python3, ffmpeg[sudo apt install ffmpeg / dnf install ffmpeg], ?)
  2. Create a virtual env: python -m venv ./
  3. Launch/activate your virtual env: . .\scripts\activate.sh
  4. See Linux && Windows
• Windows
  1. Download necessary packages (Python3, ffmpeg, ?)
  2. Create a virtual env: python -m venv .\
  3. Launch/activate your virtual env: . .\scripts\activate.ps1
  4. See Linux && Windows
• Linux && Windows
  1. pip install -r requirements.txt - may take a bit of time...
  2. Run python ./summarize.py <video_url> - The video URL does not have to be a youtube URL. It can be any site that ytdl supports.
  3. You'll then be asked if you'd like to run the transcription through GPU(1) or CPU(2).
  4. Next, the video will be downloaded to the local directory by ytdl.
  5. Then the video will be transcribed by faster_whisper. (You can see this in the console output) * The resulting transcription output will be stored as both a json file with timestamps, as well as a txt file with no timestamps.
  6. Finally, you can have the transcription summarized through feeding it into an LLM of your choice.
  7. For running it locally, pass the '--local' argument into the script. This will download and launch a local inference server as part of the script. * This will take up at least 6 GB of space. (WIP - not in place yet)

Using

• Single file (remote URL) transcription
  • Single URL: python summarize.py https://example.com/video.mp4
• Single file (local) transcription)
  • Transcribe a local file: python summarize.py /path/to/your/localfile.mp4
• Multiple files (local & remote)
  • List of Files(can be URLs and local files mixed): python summarize.py ./path/to/your/text_file.txt"

Save time and use the config.txt file, it allows you to set these settings and have them used when ran.

usage: summarize.py [-h] [-v] [-api API_NAME] [-key API_KEY] [-ns NUM_SPEAKERS] [-wm WHISPER_MODEL] [-off OFFSET] [-vad]
                    [-log {DEBUG,INFO,WARNING,ERROR,CRITICAL}] [-ui] [-demo] [-prompt CUSTOM_PROMPT] [-overwrite] [-roll]
                    [-detail DETAIL_LEVEL]
                    [input_path]

Transcribe and summarize videos.

positional arguments:
  input_path            Path or URL of the video

options:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -v, --video           Download the video instead of just the audio
  -api API_NAME, --api_name API_NAME
                        API name for summarization (optional)
  -key API_KEY, --api_key API_KEY
                        API key for summarization (optional)
  -ns NUM_SPEAKERS, --num_speakers NUM_SPEAKERS
                        Number of speakers (default: 2)
  -wm WHISPER_MODEL, --whisper_model WHISPER_MODEL
                        Whisper model (default: small.en)
  -off OFFSET, --offset OFFSET
                        Offset in seconds (default: 0)
  -vad, --vad_filter    Enable VAD filter
  -log {DEBUG,INFO,WARNING,ERROR,CRITICAL}, --log_level {DEBUG,INFO,WARNING,ERROR,CRITICAL}
                        Log level (default: INFO)
  -ui, --user_interface
                        Launch the Gradio user interface
  -demo, --demo_mode    Enable demo mode
  -prompt CUSTOM_PROMPT, --custom_prompt CUSTOM_PROMPT
                        Pass in a custom prompt to be used in place of the existing one. (Probably should just modify the script itself...)
  -overwrite, --overwrite
                        Overwrite existing files
  -roll, --rolling_summarization
                        Enable rolling summarization
  -detail DETAIL_LEVEL, --detail_level DETAIL_LEVEL
                        Mandatory if rolling summarization is enabled, defines the chunk size. Default is 0.01(lots of chunks) -> 1.00 (few
                        chunks) Currently only OpenAI works.

-Download Audio only from URL -> Transcribe audio:
  >python summarize.py https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nd1CDZP21s

-Transcribe audio from a Youtube URL & Summarize it using (anthropic/cohere/openai/llama (llama.cpp)/ooba (oobabooga/text-gen-webui)/kobold (kobold.cpp)/tabby (Tabbyapi)) API:
  >python summarize.py https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nd1CDZP21s -api <your choice of API>
    - Make sure to put your API key into `config.txt` under the appropriate API variable

-Download Video with audio from URL -> Transcribe audio from Video:
  >python summarize.py -v https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nd1CDZP21s

-Download Audio+Video from a list of videos in a text file (can be file paths or URLs) and have them all summarized:
  >python summarize.py --video ./local/file_on_your/system --api_name <API_name>

-Transcribe & Summarize a List of Videos on your local filesytem with a text file:
  >python summarize.py -v ./local/file_on_your/system

-Run it as a WebApp:
  >python summarize.py -gui

By default videos, transcriptions and summaries are stored in a folder with the video's name under './Results', unless otherwise specified in the config file.

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Setting up a Local LLM Inference Engine

• Setting up Local LLM Runner
  • Llama.cpp
    • Linux & Mac
      1. git clone https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp
      2. make in the llama.cpp folder
      3. ./server -m ../path/to/model -c <context_size>
    • Windows
      1. git clone https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp
      2. Download + Run: https://github.com/skeeto/w64devkit/releases
      3. cd to llama.cpp folder makein thellama.cpp` folder
      4. server.exe -m ..\path\to\model -c <context_size>
  • Kobold.cpp - c/p'd from: https://github.com/LostRuins/koboldcpp/wiki
    • Windows
      1. Download from here: https://github.com/LostRuins/koboldcpp/releases/latest
      2. Double click KoboldCPP.exe and select model OR run "KoboldCPP.exe --help" in CMD prompt to get command line arguments for more control.
      3. Generally you don't have to change much besides the Presets and GPU Layers. Run with CuBLAS or CLBlast for GPU acceleration.
      4. Select your GGUF or GGML model you downloaded earlier, and connect to the displayed URL once it finishes loading.
    • Linux
      1. On Linux, we provide a koboldcpp-linux-x64 PyInstaller prebuilt binary on the releases page for modern systems. Simply download and run the binary.
      • Alternatively, you can also install koboldcpp to the current directory by running the following terminal command: curl -fLo koboldcpp https://github.com/LostRuins/koboldcpp/releases/latest/download/koboldcpp-linux-x64 && chmod +x koboldcpp
      2. When you can't use the precompiled binary directly, we provide an automated build script which uses conda to obtain all dependencies, and generates (from source) a ready-to-use a pyinstaller binary for linux users. Simply execute the build script with ./koboldcpp.sh dist and run the generated binary.
  • oobabooga - text-generation-webui - https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui
    1. Clone or download the repository.
    • Clone: git clone https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui
    • Download: https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui/releases/latest -> Download the Soruce code (zip) file -> Extract -> Continue below.
    2. Run the start_linux.sh, start_windows.bat, start_macos.sh, or start_wsl.bat script depending on your OS.
    3. Select your GPU vendor when asked.
    4. Once the installation ends, browse to http://localhost:7860/?__theme=dark.
  • Exvllama2
• Setting up a Local LLM Model
  1. microsoft/Phi-3-mini-128k-instruct - 3.8B Model/7GB base, 4GB Q8 - https://huggingface.co/microsoft/Phi-3-mini-128k-instruct
  • GGUF Quants: https://huggingface.co/pjh64/Phi-3-mini-128K-Instruct.gguf
  2. Meta Llama3-8B - 8B Model/16GB base, 8.5GB Q8 - https://huggingface.co/meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct
  • GGUF Quants: https://huggingface.co/lmstudio-community/Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct-GGUF

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Pieces & What's in the repo?

• Workflow
  1. Setup python + packages
  2. Setup ffmpeg
  3. Run python summarize.py <video_url> or python summarize.py <List_of_videos.txt>
  4. If you want summarization, add your API keys (if not using a local LLM) to the config.txt file, and then re-run the script, passing in the name of the API [or URL endpoint - to be added] to the script.
  • python summarize.py https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nd1CDZP21s --api_name anthropic - This will attempt to download the video, then upload the resulting json file to the anthropic API endpoint, referring to values set in the config file (API key and model) to request summarization.
  • Anthropic:
    • claude-3-opus-20240229
    • claude-3-sonnet-20240229
    • claude-3-haiku-20240307
  • Cohere:
    • command-r
    • command-r-plus
  • Groq
    • llama3-8b-8192
    • llama3-70b-8192
    • mixtral-8x7b-32768
  • HuggingFace:
    • CohereForAI/c4ai-command-r-plus
    • meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3-70B-Instruct
    • meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct
    • Supposedly you can use any model on there, but this is for reference for the free demo instance, in case you'd like to host your own.
  • OpenAI:
    • gpt-4-turbo
    • gpt-4-turbo-preview
    • gpt-4
• What's in the repo?
  • summarize.py - download, transcribe and summarize audio
    1. First uses yt-dlp to download audio(optionally video) from supplied URL
    2. Next, it uses ffmpeg to convert the resulting .m4a file to .wav
    3. Then it uses faster_whisper to transcribe the .wav file to .txt
    4. After that, it uses pyannote to perform 'diarorization'
    5. Finally, it'll send the resulting txt to an LLM endpoint of your choice for summarization of the text.
  • chunker.py - break text into parts and prepare each part for LLM summarization
  • roller-*.py - rolling summarization
    • can-ai-code - interview executors to run LLM inference
  • compare.py - prepare LLM outputs for webapp
  • compare-app.py - summary viewer webapp

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Similar/Other projects:

• https://github.com/Dicklesworthstone/bulk_transcribe_youtube_videos_from_playlist/tree/main
• https://github.com/akashe/YoutubeSummarizer

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Credits

• The original version of this project by @the-crypt-keeper
• yt-dlp
• ffmpeg
• faster_whisper
• pyannote