Youtube Thumbnail Finder

Find moment from thumbnail in a YouTube video. Program presentation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvoJ_e35pSs

Table of Contents

• General Info
• Technologies Used To Implement Core Features
• Features
• Screenshots
• How it works
• Setup
• Usage
• Project Status
• Room for Improvement

General Information

The program finds moment from thumbnail in a YouTube video. The user provides a link to the video, the program outputs a link to the video with a timestamp (a moment in which action form thumbnail takes place). Altought YouTube provides 'Most Replayed' feature that helps to find a moment from thumbnail manually, it may be not enough. Sometimes the most replayed segment of a video is not the one that is shown in a thumbnail, sometimes the feature is disabled. The app has serious limitation - it works only if thumbnail is exact frame from the video. I created this program because I wanted to create GUI app with MVC in Python.

Technologies Used To Implement Core Features

• Python
• pytube
• OpenCV
• Tkinter

Features

• Finding moment from thumbnail for YouTube videos
• GUI
• Exceptions handling (no Internet connection, invalid video link, pytube error)

Screenshots

How it works

1. Program downloads the video and the thumbnail.
2. Every frame of the video is compared with the thumbnail - mean of the differences between corresponding pixels is calculated.
3. Timestamp of the frame with the lowest mean is retrieved.

Setup

1. Install Python and Git, if you don’t have it already installed.
2. Clone the repo git clone https://github.com/kosmolub01/Youtube-thumbnail-finder.git.
3. Install required packages python -m pip install -r requirements.txt (run this command in project folder).

Usage

Run python controller.py.

Project Status

Project is: in progress.

Room for Improvement

Room for improvement:

• Determine better way of comparing thumbnail and each frame of a video, so the program will be more universal and work for other types of thumbnails (not only for those that are exact frames from the video)
• Don't overload the CPU that much
• App heavily relies on pytube, which is not perfect. Sometimes it has problems with accessing available videos. Consider changing the library.

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