[stong1]

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!

[NewUser76312]

Hey 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]

1.) 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]

Thanks 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

[ANighRaisin]

How does this compare to gemini thinking experimental with apps?

[noname120]

Out of curiosity which residential proxy service do you use?

[arccy]

how expensive is the bandwidth if you're buying from residential proxies?

[stong1]

Cheap. Less than $10/GB and since we only scrape metadata and transcripts, the traffic usage is low.

[JTyQZSnP3cQGa8B]

> open-source

> OPENAI_API_KEY

Choose one.

[SomeoneOnTheWeb]

The service itself is open source ; but it relies on a closed source service. Both are not incompatible.

[jamesy0ung]

If you don't like it, just edit the open-source code to point to a locally hosted open-source llm.

[suprjami]

> OPENAI_BASE_URL

> OPENAI_API_HOST