This unarguably is one of the most fun projects I got to work on. So the story goes like this...

I was streaming on youtube (Yes, I do that sometimes) and somebody in the chat randomly pulled up this idea that I should automate my youtube shorts using my coding skills. I was like "Hmm, that's a cool idea" but I have no clue how to do that lmao.

The breakthrough

Few days later I hit the breakthrough when I was watching this video and I was listening to the part where Em beihold starts singing and I noticed that the youtube timeline actually shows the most viewed parts of the video. I was like "Wait a minute, I can use this to automate my youtube shorts".

The idea

Now the idea was simple...All I had to do was to

1. extract the most replayed part of the video.
2. cut that part out.
3. add subtitles to it.
4. change the aspect ratio to 9:16.
5. upload it to youtube.

So that's exactly what I did. I wrote a js script using pupeeter to download the html of the webpage and then I used a python script to process the html and extract the data of the bezier curves of the timeline. Then I used the bezier curves to extract the most viewed part of the video and then I used moviepy to cut that part out and add subtitles to it.

Subtitles were generated using the youtube api and the aspect ratio was changed using moviepy.

To upload the video to youtube I used the youtube api and the video was uploaded to my channel.

That's it. That was the whole process. Pretty simple but a lot of fun. Did you like it?