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.

• 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. Install the required Python packages:

   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:

   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.