youtubepagegenerator

Generates a HTML page for a YouTube video with a provided link via Python.

Requirements

• Python

Usage

Run generatepage.py and paste in the link of the desired video. Designed specifically for YouTube videos, results from other sites may vary.

Outputted pages will be in generated/[videoID]/, pages will usually open in browser at http://localhost:8000/...

Alternatively, run runserver.py to open a page with a list of archived videos

Changelog

2024-10-10

• Ambient mode is now OFF by default
• Automatically disable ambient mode when frame drops occur
• Added updatecomments.py which updates comment json files

2024-10-08

• Add window title changing

2024-08-03

• Redo code to improve response times

2024-07-07

• Fix unicode errors (hopefully once and for all...)
• Code now uses the yt-dlp python package

2024-07-03

• Fix for unix

2024-06-23

• Reduce code redundancy
• Write automatic subtitles

2024-05-13

• Fixed downloading comments with a different build of yt-dlp.exe
• Changed css and scripts
• Added an index.html with all archived videos listed
• Fix 4:3 videos

2024-04-07

• Included a yt-dlp.exe for new users
• Packages are now checked instead of always attempting to install from requirements.txt

To Do

• Download subtitles and convert them to WEBVTT automatically
• More YouTube like interface (choose css - new - old?), refering to the internet checkpoints page https://internetcheckpoint.page/Q9XTqQbuavI