I built a tool to clear my YouTube's "Watch Later" Video Graveyard
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I built this because I consume a lot of technical lectures and long-form podcasts on YouTube, but I found myself wasting hours scrubbing through videos just to find specific citations or concepts.Recapio is a tool that extracts the transcript and generates structured summaries for videos (and web articles). It’s not trying to replace watching content, but rather to act as a 'Ctrl+F' for video context.One technical challenge I faced: Dealing with auto-generated YouTube captions vs. forced captions was messy. I had to build a parser that normalizes the timestamps so that when you click a summary point, it actually seeks to the correct frame, even if the caption timing is drifting.It has a free
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