Turning a Month of Uploads Into an EPUB

Added 2026-08-06

Four steps: pull the channel's recent videos, fetch transcripts, have Claude rewrite them as magazine-style articles, package as EPUB. It is a local project you clone, configure with a .env and run with main.py.

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Turning a Month of Uploads Into an EPUB preview

Know this first: GitHub Actions and cloud servers get blocked from fetching transcripts, so automation runs on your own machine, with macOS launchd the only scheduling recipe given. Email delivery is optional and hard-wired to Gmail; the web panel is Streamlit, installed separately. Two keys are needed — the YouTube Data API is free, the Anthropic one costs money. The known-issues table is honest: filtering Shorts by duration is unreliable, the old transcript call no longer works, and back-to-back fetches get rate-limited.

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