YouTube Transcript to Detailed Notes Converter

This Streamlit-based app extracts YouTube video transcripts and summarizes the content using Google Gemini AI. It's designed to take a YouTube video link, generate the transcript, and produce a concise, point-based summary of the video within 250 words.

Features

• Extract Transcript: Fetches and compiles the transcript of a YouTube video using YouTubeTranscriptApi.
• AI Summary: Summarizes the transcript using Google Gemini Pro's gemini-1.5-flash model, providing key points in under 250 words.
• YouTube Thumbnail Display: Shows the thumbnail of the video.
• Streamlit Interface: User-friendly web app built with Streamlit.

Prerequisites

• Python 3.8+
• Google Generative AI API Key

Installation

1. Clone the repository:

   git clone https://github.com/austinLorenzMccoy/ytTransciberLLM.git

2. Navigate to the project directory:

   cd ytTransciberLLM

3. Install dependencies:

   pip install -r requirements.txt

4. Set up your environment variables:

   • Create a .env file in the root directory.
   • Add your Google API key:

   GOOGLE_API_KEY=your-google-generativeai-api-key

Usage

1. Run the Streamlit app:

   streamlit run app.py

2. Enter a YouTube video link into the text input box.

3. Click on "Get Detailed Notes" to generate the summarized transcript.

File Structure

• app.py: Main application file that handles video transcript extraction and AI-generated summarization.
• requirements.txt: Lists the required Python libraries.
• .env: Holds sensitive environment variables like the Google API key.
• .gitignore: Specifies files and directories to be ignored by Git, such as .env and other environment-specific files.

Libraries Used

• streamlit: For building the web app.
• youtube_transcript_api: To extract YouTube video transcripts.
• google-generativeai: To interact with Google Gemini's API.
• python-dotenv: To load environment variables from the .env file.
• pathlib: For handling file paths.

Notes

• The app uses Google Gemini 1.5 Flash for summarizing the transcript. Ensure that you have sufficient access and quotas for using the Google Generative AI API.

Contribution

Feel free to fork this project, raise issues, or make pull requests. Any contributions are highly appreciated.