YouTube to Ghost Blog Post

This script processes a YouTube video URL to download the audio, transcribe it, generate a summary, title, teaser, and call-to-action (CTA), and create a draft post in a Ghost blog using the Ghost Admin API.

Prerequisites

• Node.js
• FFmpeg
• Whisper (for transcription)
• Ollama with LLM llama3 installed (for genAI)
• Ghost blog with Admin API access
• yt-dlp

Note that some of these dependencies can be installed via brew.

Installation

1. Clone the repository:

   git clone https://github.com/mattcam/youtube2ghost.git
   cd youtube2ghost

2. Install dependencies:

   npm install

3. Ensure FFmpeg is installed and available in your system's PATH.

Configuration

Create a config.yaml file with the following structure:

prompts:
    title: "Provide an engaging post title for the following content: {transcript}"
    teaser: "Provide an engaging post teaser for the following content: {transcript}"
    summary: "Provide the top nine key takeaways with emojis from the following: {transcript}"
    cta: "Provide an engaging call to action to encourage a comment on the post with the following content: {transcript}"
directory: "/path/to/your/directory"
ghost:
    url: "https://your-ghost-blog-url"
    key: "your-ghost-admin-api-key"

4. Create working directory /path/to/your/directory

Usage

Run the script with the YouTube video URL and the path to your configuration file:

node index.js <YouTube_URL> <path_to_config.yaml>

For example:

node app.js https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=example /path/to/config.yaml

Notes

• Files generated by the application will be stored in the working directory using the YouTube ID as the file name. If a file exists then the corresponding function in the application will not be rerun.

Contributing

Use issues for all questions and feature requests.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License.