alt Hacker NewsShow HN: OpenBrief – Local-first video downloader/summarizer
OpenBrief is basically a GUI for yt-dlp with some AI on top — paste a link, it downloads locally, and transcription and voice generation run with local AI on your machine. Summaries and chat over the transcript use an LLM, which is bring-your-own-key for now. It's open source and free.
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hbwang2076 • today at 12:04 AM
Clean implementation. One thing I always look for: how does this degrade when things go wrong? Good error handling is what separates weekend projects from tools people actually use.
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ks2048 • today at 3:04 AM
Within the past year, yt-dlp has ceased to work reliably, it seems Google is cracking down.
bethekidyouwant • yesterday at 11:32 PM
Don’t YouTube videos already have a transcript?
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dlmserve • today at 1:58 AM
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Cool project! I built something similar a while back and then kept adding to it: https://github.com/rmusser01/tldw_server It’s now grown quite a bit past the original goal of transcribing and summarizing conference talks for me.