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Hi HN! I'm the author of this service. Thank you for your support. There may have been some temporary downtime due to residential proxy running out of bandwidt
by stong1 2y ago
Hi HN! I'm the author of this service. Thank you for your support.
There may have been some temporary downtime due to residential proxy running out of bandwidth. I have purchased additional bandwidth. (I run this service for free.)
There also may be some errors with particular videos because they are not accessible in certain regions. For now all requests to YouTube originate from United States, but open to change in the future to some kind of round-robin or fallback system.
I know it's not perfect. I developed the tool originally for my own use. It's open source and I'm open to any patches or pull requests.
Enjoy!
- JTyQZSnP3cQGa8B 2y ago> open-source > OPENAI_API_KEY Choose one.
- SomeoneOnTheWeb 2y agoThe service itself is open source ; but it relies on a closed source service. Both are not incompatible.
- sieabahlpark 2y ago[dead]
- suprjami 2y ago> OPENAI_BASE_URL > OPENAI_API_HOST
- jamesy0ung 2y agoIf you don't like it, just edit the open-source code to point to a locally hosted open-source llm.
- NewUser76312 2y agoHey this is really cool, I literally had the same idea about a month ago but ultimately decided to not pursue it. Glad someone else did. A few quick Qs - 1) Do you use the available auto-generated transcripts from youtube? Or do you do any audio parsing? I know transcripts aren't always available. 2) Do you have any plans to monetize in some way, do you think it would be possible? It's definitely a neat product but a tad generic and replicable, so I'm curious.
- stong1 2y ago1.) We do no TTS of our own. We either use the original transcripts uploaded manually by the YouTuber or we use the auto-generated ones supplied by Google. 2.) No, I plan to keep it free as the operational costs are relatively minimal.
- NewUser76312 2y agoThanks for your response. Yeah that's nice and simple. I wonder how much you'll burn keeping it up for free, are we talking like on the order of $20/mo? If you use models like 4o-mini it might even be less, that thing is insanely cheap and not terrible. Cheers
- arccy 2y agohow expensive is the bandwidth if you're buying from residential proxies?
- stong1 2y agoCheap. Less than $10/GB and since we only scrape metadata and transcripts, the traffic usage is low.
- ANighRaisin 2y agoHow does this compare to gemini thinking experimental with apps?
- noname120 2y agoOut of curiosity which residential proxy service do you use?
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