Vidrank

Use Vidrank to prioritize which YouTube videos to watch first. Vidrank presents you with small batches of videos. You can classify a subset of each batch as better than the rest and your selections are processed by the TrueSkill algorithm to produce ratings. Ratings are used to determine the next best set of videos to consider to maximize information gain and decrease rating uncertainty.

If you have a backlog of videos waiting in your Watch Later playlist, then this tool was made for you.

Installation

Requirements:

• Node
• Poetry

Install the backend package

cd backend
poetry install

Install the frontend package

cd frontend
pnpm install

Running locally

Set a few environment variables that are used by the server.

You will need an API key for the YouTube Data API (v3)

export YOUTUBE_API_KEY="<youtube-api-key>"
export VIDRANK_CACHE_DIR="<path-to-cache-directory>"
export VIDRANK_PLAYLIST_ID="<youtube-playlist-id>"

Start the backend

fastapi dev backend/vidrank/app/app.py --reload

Start the frontend

pnpm run dev

Debug Mode

LOG_LEVEL=DEBUG fastapi dev backend/vidrank/app/app.py --reload