AI Youtube Shorts Generator is a Python tool designed to generate engaging YouTube shorts from long-form videos. By leveraging the power of GPT-4 and Whisper, it extracts the most interesting highlights, detects speakers, and crops the content vertically for shorts. This tool is currently in version 0.1 and might have some bugs.

If you wish to add shorts generation into your application, here is an api to create shorts from long form videos :- https://docs.vadoo.tv/docs/guide/create-ai-clips

Demo Input Video

Demo Output Video

• Video Download: Given a YouTube URL, the tool downloads the video.
• Transcription: Uses Whisper to transcribe the video.
• Highlight Extraction: Utilizes OpenAI's GPT-4 to identify the most engaging parts of the video.
• Speaker Detection: Detects speakers in the video.
• Vertical Cropping: Crops the highlighted sections vertically, making them perfect for shorts.

• Python 3.7 or higher
• FFmpeg
• OpenCV

1. Clone the repository:

   git clone https://github.com/SamurAIGPT/AI-Youtube-Shorts-Generator.git
   cd AI-Youtube-Shorts-Generator

2. Create a virtual environment

python3.10 -m venv venv

3. Activate a virtual environment:

source venv/bin/activate # On Windows: venv\Scripts\activate

4. Install the python dependencies:

pip install -r requirements.txt

1. Set up the environment variables.

Create a .env file in the project root directory and add your OpenAI API key:

OPENAI_API=your_openai_api_key_here

1. Ensure your .env file is correctly set up with your OpenAI API key.
2. Run the main script and enter the desired YouTube URL when prompted:

   python main.py

Contributions are welcome! Please fork the repository and submit a pull request.

This project is licensed under the MIT License.

This is a v0.1 release and might have some bugs. Please report any issues on the GitHub Repository.

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