🎬 YouTube AI Assistant

A smart AI-powered assistant that lets you interact with any YouTube video — ask questions, get summaries, and explore content broken into meaningful sections.

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📸 Demo & Screenshots

Feature	Screenshot
Home / URL Input
Section Breakdown

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✨ Features

• 🔗 Paste any YouTube Video id to load video content
• 💬 Chat with the video — ask questions and get context-aware answers
• 📝 Summarize the entire video in seconds
• 🗂️ Section breakdown — splits video content into meaningful, labeled segments
• ⚡ Powered by Streamlit for a clean, interactive UI

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🛠️ Tech Stack

• Frontend: Streamlit
• AI/LLM: (your model/API here — e.g., OpenAI, Gemini, etc.)
• YouTube Processing: (e.g., youtube-transcript-api, pytube)
• Language: Python 3.x

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🚀 Getting Started

Follow these steps to clone and run the project locally.

1. Clone the Repository

git clone https://github.com/geniusdude1012/Youtube_AI_Assistant.git
cd Youtube_AI_Assistant

2. Create & Activate a Virtual Environment (recommended)

# On macOS/Linux
python3 -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate

# On Windows
python -m venv venv
venv\Scripts\activate

3. Install Dependencies

pip install -r requirements.txt

4. Set Up Environment Variables

Create a .env file in the root of the project:

touch .env

Then open it and add your API keys:

# .env

OPENAI_API_KEY=your_openai_api_key_here
# Add any other required keys below
# GOOGLE_API_KEY=your_key_here

⚠️ Never commit your .env file. It is already listed in .gitignore.

5. Run the App

streamlit run yt_smrt_asst.py

The app will open automatically in your browser at http://localhost:8501.

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📁 Project Structure

Youtube_AI_Assistant/
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├── tests/                  # Test files for RAG system
├── .gitignore
├── LICENSE
├── README.md
├── requirements.txt        # All Python dependencies
└── yt_smrt_asst.py         # Main Streamlit application

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🧪 Running Tests

# From the root directory
pytest tests/

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🤝 Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Here's how to get started:

1. Fork the repository
2. Create a new branch: git checkout -b feature/your-feature-name
3. Commit your changes: git commit -m "Add your message"
4. Push to the branch: git push origin feature/your-feature-name
5. Open a Pull Request

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📄 License

This project is licensed under the MIT License — see the LICENSE file for details.

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👤 Author

geniusdude1012 · GitHub Profile

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Made with ❤️ and a lot of YouTube videos.