YouTube-Transcript-Summarizer

In this project, a Chrome Extension is developed which will make a request to a backend API where it will perform NLP and respond with a summarized version of a YouTube transcript.

Steps to run the app

For backend

1. Setup a virtual environment.
2. Install the dependencies using "pip install -r requirement.txt".
3. Open a terminal and run the flask server.

For chorme extension

1. Open up chrome://extensions/ and switch on Developer mode.
2. Select load unpacked and select the chrome extension folder.

Features

Users can get the summary of the transcripts for any youtube video by clicking on the extension.

Dependencies

1. Flask
2. youtube_transcript_api
3. transformers[torch]