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Automated Reddit to Youtube Bot

Description

Scrape posts from Reddit and automatically generate Youtube Videos and Thumbnails

Example Videos

Checkout my Youtube Channel for example videos made by this repo :

What crime are you okay with people committing? Watch the video

What show has no likable characters? Watch the video

Reddit Youtube Channels

Youtube Channels generated using this repo :

If your Youtube Channel is generated using this repository and you would like it listed above please comment on this issue #91 with your youtube channel url and channel name and mention you'd like it listed in the main README file.

Quickstart Guide

Windows

Watch the Python Reddit Youtube Bot Tutorial Video : Watch the video

Install Prerequisite Components

Install these prerequisite components first :

Git clone repository

git clone [email protected]:alexlaverty/python-reddit-youtube-bot.git
cd python-reddit-youtube-bot

Generate Reddit Tokens

Generate Reddit PRAW Tokens - https://www.reddit.com/prefs/apps/

Copy auth config

Create a copy of the auth-example.py file and name it auth.py :

copy config/auth-example.py config/auth.py

Update the auth.py file to contain the Reddit Auth tokens you generated in the previous step.

Python Pip Install Dependencies

pip install -r requirements.txt

Install Playwright

Install and configure playwright by running :

playwright install

Run Python Script

Run the python script :

python app.py

when it completes the video will be generated into the videos folder and will be named final.mp4

Downloading video backgrounds using yt-dlp :

If you want to add a video background then install yt-dlp :

yt-dlp

then create a backgrounds folder and run the following command :

mkdir -p assets/backgrounds
cd assets/backgrounds
yt-dlp --playlist-items 1:10 -f 22 --output "%(uploader)s_%(id)s.%(ext)s" https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGmxyVGSCDKvmLInHxJ9VdiwEb82Lxd2E

Help

You can view available parameters by passing in --help :

python app.py --help

##### YOUTUBE REDDIT BOT #####
usage: app.py [-h] [-l VIDEO_LENGTH] [-o] [-s] [-t] [-u URL]

options:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -l VIDEO_LENGTH, --video-length VIDEO_LENGTH
                        Set how long you want the video to be
  -o, --disable-overlay
                        Disable video overlay
  -s, --story-mode      Generate video for post title and selftext only, disables user comments
  -t, --thumbnail-only  Generate thumbnail image only
  -u URL, --url URL     Specify Reddit post url, seperate with a comma for multiple posts.

Generate a Video for a Specific Post

or if you want to generate a video for a specific reddit post you can specify it via the --url param :

python app.py --url https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/hvsxty/which_legendary_reddit_post_comment_can_you_still/

or you can do multiple url's by seperating with a comma, ie :

python app.py --url https://www.reddit.com/r/post1,https://www.reddit.com/r/post2,https://www.reddit.com/r/post3

Generate Only Thumbnails

if you want to generate only thumbnails you can specify --thumbnail-only mode, this will skip video compilation process :

python app.py --thumbnail-only

Enable a Newscaster

If you want to enable a Newscaster, edit settings.py and set :

enable_newscaster = True

If the newcaster video has a green screen you can remove it with the following settings, use an eye dropper to get the RGB colour of the greenscreen and set it to have it removed :

newscaster_remove_greenscreen = True
newscaster_greenscreen_color = [1, 255, 17] # Enter the Green Screen RGB Colour
newscaster_greenscreen_remove_threshold = 100

Settings.py File

Theres quite a few options you can customise in the settings.py file :

Specify which subreddits you want to scrape :

subreddits = [
    "AmItheAsshole",
    "antiwork",
    "AskMen",
    "ChoosingBeggars",
    "hatemyjob",
    "NoStupidQuestions",
    "pettyrevenge",
    "Showerthoughts",
    "TooAfraidToAsk",
    "TwoXChromosomes",
    "unpopularopinion",
    "confessions",
    "confession"
    ]

Subreddits to exclude :

subreddits_excluded = [
    "r/CFB",
]

Filter out reddit posts via specified keywords

banned_keywords =["my", "nasty", "keywords"]

Change the Text to Speech engine you want to use, note AWS Polly requires and AWS account and auth tokens and can incur costs :

Supports Speech Engines :

# choices "polly","balcon","gtts"
voice_engine = "polly"

Total number of reddit Videos to generate

total_posts_to_process = 5

The next settings are to automatically filter out posts

Skip reddit posts that less than this amount of updates

minimum_submission_score = 5000

Filtering out reddit posts based on the reddit post title length

title_length_minimum = 20
title_length_maximum = 100

Filter out posts that exceed the maximum self text length

maximum_length_self_text = 5000

Filter out reddit posts that don't have enough comments

minimum_num_comments = 200

Only attempt to process a maximum amount of reddit posts

submission_limit = 1000

Specify how many thumbnail images you want to generate

number_of_thumbnails = 3

Specify the maximum video length

max_video_length = 600 # Seconds

Specify maximum amount of comments to generate in the video

comment_limit = 600

Specifying various folder paths

assets_directory = "assets"
temp_directory = "temp"
audio_directory = str(Path("temp"))
fonts_directory = str(Path(assets_directory,"fonts"))
image_backgrounds_directory = str(Path(assets_directory,"image_backgrounds"))
images_directory = str(Path(assets_directory,"images"))
thumbnails_directory = str(Path(assets_directory,"images"))
background_directory = str(Path(assets_directory,"backgrounds"))
video_overlay_filepath = str(Path(assets_directory,"particles.mp4"))
videos_directory = "videos"

Specify video height and width

video_height = 720
video_width = 1280
clip_size = (video_width, video_height)

Skip compiling the video and just exit instead

enable_compilation = True

Skip uploading to youtube

enable_upload = False

Add a video overlay to the video, for example snow falling effect

enable_overlay = True

Add in a newscaster reader to the video

enable_newscaster = True

If newcaster video is a green screen attempt to remove the green screen

newscaster_remove_greenscreen = True

Specify the color of the green screen in RGB

newscaster_greenscreen_color = [1, 255, 17] # Enter the Green Screen RGB Colour

The higher the greenscreen threshold number the more it will attempt to remove

newscaster_greenscreen_remove_threshold = 100

Path to newcaster file

newscaster_filepath = str(Path(assets_directory,"newscaster.mp4").resolve())

Position on the screen of the newscaster

newscaster_position = ("left","bottom")

The size of the newscaster

newcaster_size = (video_width * 0.5, video_height * 0.5)

Add a pause after each text to speech audio file

pause = 1 # Pause after speech

Text style settings

text_bg_color = "#1A1A1B"
text_bg_opacity = 1
text_color = "white"
text_font = "Verdana-Bold"
text_fontsize = 32

Download images from lexica or skip trying to download

lexica_download_enabled = True