# AI-Youtube-Shorts-Generator

**Repository Path**: ma-yongfan/AI-Youtube-Shorts-Generator

## Basic Information

- **Project Name**: AI-Youtube-Shorts-Generator
- **Description**: No description available
- **Primary Language**: Unknown
- **License**: MIT
- **Default Branch**: main
- **Homepage**: None
- **GVP Project**: No

## Statistics

- **Stars**: 0
- **Forks**: 0
- **Created**: 2024-09-27
- **Last Updated**: 2024-09-27

## Categories & Tags

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## README

# AI Youtube Shorts Generator

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.

### Youtube tutorial -> https://youtu.be/dKMueTMW1Nw

### Medium tutorial -> https://medium.com/@anilmatcha/ai-youtube-shorts-generator-in-python-a-complete-tutorial-c3df6523b362

![longshorts](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/3f5d1abf-bf3b-475f-8abf-5e253003453a)

[Demo Input Video](https://github.com/SamurAIGPT/AI-Youtube-Shorts-Generator/blob/main/videos/Blinken%20Admires%20'Friend%20Jai'%20As%20Indian%20EAM%20Gets%20Savage%20In%20Munich%3B%20'I'm%20Smart%20Enough...'%20%7C%20Watch.mp4)

[Demo Output Video](https://github.com/SamurAIGPT/AI-Youtube-Shorts-Generator/blob/main/Final.mp4)

## Features

- **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.

## Installation

### Prerequisites

- Python 3.7 or higher
- FFmpeg
- OpenCV

### Steps

1. Clone the repository:

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

2. Install the required Python packages:

   ```bash
   pip install -r requirements.txt
   ```

3. Set up the environment variables. Create a `.env` file in the project root directory and add your OpenAI API key:
   ```bash
   OPENAI_API=your_openai_api_key_here
   ```

## Usage

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:
   ```bash
   python main.py
   ```

## Contributing

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

## License

This project is licensed under the MIT License.

## Disclaimer

This is a v0.1 release and might have some bugs. Please report any issues on the [GitHub Repository](https://github.com/SamurAIGPT/AI-Youtube-Shorts-Generator).

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