Semi-automatic pipeline for posting top Reddit posts/comments to YouTube shorts, with Discord integration for curation.
Example of a video made automatically: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/aR66m36bFkg
This project took a bunch of Python libraries and smashed them together to make a marvel of human-computer interaction.
Basically, a Discord bot launches and then:
- You run a command to get the top Reddit posts of the day using PRAW,
- The bot shows the posts to you, you react to the message to select one
- The bot fetches comments for the post you chose, you react to choose the funniest ones
- The bot uses selenium to gather screenshots of the post and the comments you chose, Google API TTS to generate voiceover, then generates a video using moviepy
- The bot shows you the final output once for curation, and upon confirmation, uploads it to YouTube using their (limited) API
I ended up shutting down this project after a few weeks because I felt bad for making slop, but the Reddit API pricing changes soon made it hard to justify anyway.
pip install google-cloud-core
PyInstaller --onefile --clean --collect-data pyshadow discord_main.py
That might fail with a 'lower' problem so add this to the spec:
import os
import importlib
proot = os.path.dirname(importlib.import_module('asyncpraw').__file__)
datas = [(os.path.join(proot, 'praw.ini'), 'asyncpraw')]and then run
PyInstaller --clean discord_main.spec