yt-fts VS remove-youtube-suggestions

I've been trying to solve a problem with implementing semantic search on my YouTube search engine yt-fts (https://github.com/NotJoeMartinez/yt-fts). I've managed to substantially speed up search results by storing subtitle embeddings in Chroma. But a bigger problem has been with how to properly segment the text in a way that accounts for the duration and context of word embeddings while returning precise time stamps. This a blog post exploring what I've tried so far.

Hey everyone, I just wanted to share my latest project yt-fts it's a command line tool written in python that allows you to search YouTube videos for keywords. It downloads video transcripts with yt-dlp, parses command line input with click and integrates full text/semantic search with sqlite and openAI python libraries.

Thank you! I was able to integrate this into the project[1]. I'm also looking into using your openai-to-sqlite[2] library for semantic search.

[1]https://github.com/NotJoeMartinez/yt-fts/pull/25

If you've ever needed to search a large YouTube channel for keywords, yt-fts (YouTube Full Text Search) is a simple python script that uses yt-dlp to scrape all of a youtube channels subtitles and load them into an sqlite database that is searchable from the command line. It allows you to query a channel for specific key word or phrase and will generate time stamped youtube urls to the video containing the keyword. You can also export these search queries to a csv.

Funnily enough, the code responsible for hiding shorts in that is just under 20 lines long :P

https://github.com/lawrencehook/remove-youtube-suggestions/b...

Same! There is an excellent extension for this called RYS which makes it really easy to toggle parts of youtube you don't want https://github.com/lawrencehook/remove-youtube-suggestions

self-promo, but you might find my extension helpful. https://lawrencehook.com/rys/

Also Remove YouTube Suggestions. It can go hard into removing anything popping up at all on the YouTube site that's not the video.

I’ve given up, and I dislike having content pushed to me in general.

I use a combination of Remove YouTube Suggestions[1] and prefacing “intitle:” before any YouTube search to avoid weird matches that point me to irrelevant content.

I think it’s ridiculous that I need to constantly click “show less like this” and exert so much effort to train YouTube. I also hate how they’ll insert random unrelated videos “For Me” or “Watch it Again” in my search results. It’s all designed to keep me on the site and distracted… better to avoid it entirely.

[1] https://github.com/lawrencehook/remove-youtube-suggestions

Remove YouTube's Suggestions well, does as the name implies. You can completely nuke your YouTube UI. So no more reccomended videos, end of video grids, search bar reccomendations, none of it. This is also still being maintained by its creator, Lawrence Hook, and it actually got an update as recently as of 5 days ago. Unfortunately it's exclusive to Firefox for now. Firefox Github