readme.md

TranscriptCollect

A node.js app designed to collect and process the captions and the dislikes & likes of a video.

Get Started

1. Clone the repo.

2. Run npm i.

3. Sign up for a Google Cloud account.

4. Create a service account.

5. Get the secrets as a .json file and save it to the root of the repo.

6. You can either

   a. Create an .env file:

       SECRET_FILE=<name of your services account file here with .json>

   #EXAMPLE
   SECRET_FILE="service_account.json"

   b. Rename your file from step 4 to service_account.json.

7. Create a folder to store your caption information. (See below folder as an example.)

   a. For optimal results with the sister repo, format your folders like below:

       /PARENT_FOLDER/
           TRANSCRIPTS/
               JSON/
               TEXT/
               youtube_vids.json
           TranscriptCollect/
           TranscriptNLP/
   

8. Create a file named youtube_vids.json inside the folder you created in step 6 and put all of your videos you'd like to capture information about. Be sure to follow the same structure as the example file.

9. Run npm run start.