A frontend for youtube that shows transcripts instead of videos.
- Clone
git clone https://github.com/thavelick/youtranscript && cd youtranscript
- Start the server
# Make sure to use a real invidious host here
YOUTRANSCRIPT_INVIDIOUS_HOST=your-favorite.invidious.host ./youtranscript.py
- Open your browser to http:https://localhost:8008/
YOUTRANSCRIPT_INVIDIOUS_HOST
: optional - the hostname of the invidious instance to use to pull youtube transcripts and search results. For a list of available instances check: https://api.invidious.io/. Make sure you pick one with a checkmark for API. If not set a random server listed at https://api.invidious.io/ will be used
The urls should mostly correspond to youtube.com ones, so you can replace https://youtube.com with http:https://localhost:8008/ and it will work.
- Python 3.9
- Add accessibility features
- Add punctuation restoration to auto-generated transcripts
- Add some copy to the homepage about how cool this is
- Add a way to show the transcripts in a different language
- Responsive design
- Add channel page
- Add RSS feeds
- More info on search results page
- Rename the search results page to match youtube:
- Use
search_query
instead ofsearch_term
- Rename to
/results
- Use
- Highlight current cue in transcript during audio playback, Also:
- Pause the audio when the user clicks on the currently playing cue
- Play the audio when the user clicks on a cue
- Scroll the page to the currently playing cue as the audio plays
- search result paging
- optimize for text based-browsers and screen readers
- don't use the
<details>
tag even though it's awesome - move the Description to the bottom of the page so the transcript is more prominent (maybe add a link to the description towards the top)
- don't rely on css to hide javascript-only elements. This doesn't work in all browsers
- add alt text to search result thumbnails, even if it's just "thumbnail for {video_title}"
- don't use the
- Tristan Havelick - programming
- @twizzay-code - idea