ObscureTube

Generates a montage of action-packed 1.5s videos about the supplied topic for youtube videos uploaded today that have less than 50 views.

The pipeline:

1. A selenium (automated) browser goes to m.youtube.com/search, sets results to today only, and collects youtube video IDs from the first 25 pages that:

   1. Are less than 4 minutes
   2. Have less than 50 views
   3. Are limited to one video per user

2. Loops over all collected youtube IDs and:

   1. Downloads the video
   2. Extracts the framerate
   3. Extracts the size of each frame (as in bytes)
   4. Finds the 1.5s window with the most action (see interestingness)
   5. Slices the full video to this 1.5s slice
   6. Ensures the 1.5s slice has sufficient audio

3. 1.5s clips are joined into a single video

Dependencies

• *nix with Bash
• Python >= 3.5
• dateutil, xmltodict, requests (pip install python-dateutil xmltodict requests)
• youtube-dl, ffmpeg (sudo apt install youtube-dl ffmpeg)

Usage

./ObscureTube "search term"

Example output

Resulting Video

$ ./ObscureTube cockatoo
Spinning up a browser > Searching...
Downloading pUh-oW5iG2E > Sucking Frames > Finding Actionest 1.5s > Writing Slice > Saved
Downloading 4dttNoJ5Vd8 > Sucking Frames > Finding Actionest 1.5s > Writing Slice > Too quiet, deleted.
...
Downloading 4LSWnekuXSE > Sucking Frames > Finding Actionest 1.5s > Writing Slice > Saved
Done! joined.mkv ready