/YoutubeLectureNotesCreator

Primary LanguagePython

YouTube Video to Lecture Notes

This project provides a script to download a YouTube video, Read its transcript, capture scenes from the video, summarize the transcript using OpenAI's GPT-4, and compile everything into a PDF document. Each page of the PDF contains a scene image, a summary of the transcript for that scene, and the full transcript text.

Prerequisites

  • Python 3.6 or higher
  • pip (Python package installer)
  • OpenAI API key

Installation

  1. Clone this Repository

  2. Create a Virtual Environment (Optional but Recommended)

    python -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate  # On Windows, use `venv\Scripts\activate`

  3. Install Dependencies

    pip install -r requirements.txt

    Create a requirements.txt file with the following content:

    opencv-python
pytube
fpdf
tqdm
openai

Configuration

  1. Set Up OpenAI API Key

    Replace 'YOUR_OPENAI_API_KEY' in the script with your actual OpenAI API key.

    openai.api_key = 'YOUR_OPENAI_API_KEY'

  2. Set YouTube Video URL

    Replace the YouTube URL in the script with the desired video URL.

    youtube_url = 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpGxLWOIZy4'  # Replace with your YouTube URL

  3. Prepare Transcript File Install chrome extention youtube summary from the follwing link

    https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/youtube-summary-with-chat/nmmicjeknamkfloonkhhcjmomieiodli

    Create a transcript.txt file in the same directory as the script, and copy the transcript using the above extention on the you tube page and paste on the file.

    Example transcript.txt:

    A Friendly Introduction to Machine Learning - YouTube
(00:01) Hi and welcome to the machine learning course
(00:35) machine learning is about...

Usage

  1. Run the Script

    python CreateLectureNotes.py

  2. Output

    The script will generate a PDF file named lecture_notes.pdf in the current directory. This file contains the captured scenes, summaries, and full transcript text for each segment of the video.