YouTube TL;DR Summarizer

Get quick AI-generated summaries for YouTube videos directly from their ID.

Features

• Fetch video title and transcript using just the video ID.
• Generate a concise summary using the Anthropic Claude Haiku API.
• Save transcript data (JSON, TXT) and the summary (Markdown) to the ./outputs directory.

Tech Stack

• Node.js
• TypeScript
• Anthropic API (Claude 3.5 Haiku via @anthropic-ai/sdk)
• youtube-transcript
• play-dl (for video title)
• dotenv

Setup

1. Clone: git clone https://github.com/angusgee/youtube-tldr.git
2. Navigate: cd youtube-tldr
3. Install: npm install
4. Configure API Key:
   • Create a .env file in the project root.
   • Add your Anthropic API key: ANTHROPIC_API_KEY=your_actual_api_key

Usage

1. Set Video ID: Open main.ts and change the exampleVideoId variable.
2. Run: npx ts-node main.ts
3. Check Output: Find the results in the ./outputs directory.

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