reddit-shorts-automated

A simple Python script to create those nasty short TikTok-like content. It transforms teddit API post endpoint to a video with tts, subtitles and background. It is based on this repo.

WARNING this project is doomed. I'm not a good Python dev, but I've tried to do it as good as I can. It works though.

Preview

Example result (bad quality cause compressed so I can show it here):

result-compressed.mp4

Example preview image:

Installation

WARNING in the main dir of the project is a very large (282MB) background video file.

# Clone the repo and enter it
git clone https://github.com/D00NIK/reddit-shorts-automated/
cd reddit-shorts-automated

# Create a virtual env and activate it. OPTIONAL, but advised
python3 -m venv .venv
source .venv/bin/activate

# Install the requirements and you're done
pip install -r requirements.txt

Usage

Simply run the main.py file, you can optionally add in a teddit endpoint so it scrapes it instead of the one used in config file.

python main.py "https://teddit.zaggy.nl/r/confession/comments/dju74z/i_run_a_fake_restaurant_on_a_delivery_app?api"

# or if configured
python main.py

But you probably want to configure it instead.

Configuration

You can change these in config.yaml

Variable	Type	Description
BG_VIDEO_PATH	String	Path to a background video file
BROWSER_EXECUTABLE_PATH	String	Path to a (preferably) Google Chrome executable. Set it up if html2image throws an error.
CLEAN_TEMP	Bool	Clean temp folder afterward
CUSTOM_CONTENT_PATH	String	Path to a file containing content to be said in the video e.g. "content.txt"
CUSTOM_TITLE	String	It'll use this title instead of the scraped one
RESULTS_FOLDER	String	Path to a folder in which to save results
PREVIEW_PATH	String	Path to a template from which to render preview image
SPEED_FACTOR	Float	Video is sped up by this factor
TARGET_FPS	Int	The result's target FPS
TEDDIT_ENDPOINT	String	API endpoint from which to gather Reddit post
TEMP_FOLDER	String	Path to a folder in which to save temp files
TIKTOK_VOICE	String	This project uses tiktok-tts, so you can here select a desired voice. https://github.com/oscie57/tiktok-voice/wiki/Voice-Codes

The rest options are font settings for subtitles and options for part division (which is not completed yet).

How it works in greater detail

Grab info from any teddit API endpoint e.g. "https://teddit.zaggy.nl/r/confession/comments/dju74z/i_run_a_fake_restaurant_on_a_delivery_app?api".
Using previews/preview.html and html2image it generates a preview image. WARNING be sure to have a Google Chrome browser, as it's the only one working with it (at least for me).
Clean and divide content text into renderable pieces by tiktok-voice-tts.
Render audio files.
Render subtitles and generate an SRT file with timestamps based on audio files duration and equalize them.
Resize the background video to a 9:16 one and randomly cut it so it has the duration of all audio files combined.
Burn preview, audio and subtitles to the video in the corresponding moments and save it.

This project heavily uses moviepy.

Credits, License, etc.

This project is MIT licensed, as it's "parent" but used components may not be. If I took someone's else code, it is said in the comment above that code. All external libraries are listed in requirements.txt file.