YouTube video timestamp and subtitle generator using OpenAI's whisper and GPT-4 models

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This provides a simple script to generate YouTube timestamps and subtitles from a video file using OpenAI's whisper and GPT-4 models. It outputs a segments.srt file and a timestamps.txt file, which can be used when uploading a new video to YouTube. You can see an example of what the output looks like with an uploaded video here.

First, make sure you set up an OpenAI API key/organization and set it as an environment variable in your .env file:

OPENAI_API_ORG=your_org_id
OPENAI_API_KEY=your_api_key

Then, clone this repo and install dependencies:

git clone https://github.com/dtbuchholz/yt-timestamps-subtitles.git
python -m venv env
source env/bin/activate
pip install --upgrade pip
pip install -r requirements.txt

The dependencies include:

• whisper: OpenAI's whisper model for transcribing an mp4 file's subtitles (.srt format).
• openai: Generate YouTube timestamps from the whisper model's output.
• moviepy: Used for utility function to get video duration and pass it to the prompt.
• dotenv: Load environment variables from .env file for the OpenAI API key and organization ID.

Lastly, run the script, passing a path to your video file:

python3 main.py --file /path/to/video.mp4

The output will generate a segments.srt file for subtitles with something like the following:

1
00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:09,599
The Tableland Studio is designed to let you interact with the Tableland network from the comfort of a web application or CLI to create teams, projects and tables.

2
00:00:10,599 --> 00:00:14,480
There are a number of features that it offers and we'll walk through them here today.

And a corresponding YouTube timestamps will take this into consideration when creating the timestamps.txt file to be used in the YouTube video's description:

0:00 - Introduction to Tableland Studio
0:15 - Logging into Tableland web app

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