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Automated Reddit to Youtube Bot

Description
Example Videos
Reddit Youtube Channels
Install Prerequisite Components
Git clone repository
Generate Reddit Tokens
Copy auth config
Python Pip Install Dependencies
Install Playwright
Run Python Script
Generate a Video for a Specific Post
Generate Only Thumbnails
Enable a Newscaster
Settings.py File

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?

What show has no likable characters?

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 https://github.com/alexlaverty/python-reddit-youtube-bot/issues/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 :

Install Prerequisite Components

Install these prerequisite components first :

Git - https://git-scm.com/download/win

Python 3.10 - https://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.10.0/python-3.10.0-amd64.exe

Microsoft C++ Build Tools - https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/visual-cpp-build-tools/

ImageMagick - https://imagemagick.org/script/download.php#windows

Git clone repository

git clone git@github.com: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 VIDEOLENGTH, --video-length VIDEOLENGTH 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/whichlegendaryredditpostcommentcanyou_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 :

newscasterremovegreenscreen = True
newscastergreenscreencolor = [1, 255, 17] # Enter the Green Screen RGB Colour
newscastergreenscreenremove_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

totalpoststo_process = 5

The next settings are to automatically filter out posts

Skip reddit posts that less than this amount of updates

minimumsubmissionscore = 5000

Filtering out reddit posts based on the reddit post title length

titlelengthminimum = 20
titlelengthmaximum = 100

Filter out posts that exceed the maximum self text length

maximumlengthself_text = 5000

Filter out reddit posts that don't have enough comments

minimumnumcomments = 200

Only attempt to process a maximum amount of reddit posts

submission_limit = 1000

Specify how many thumbnail images you want to generate

numberofthumbnails = 3

Specify the maximum video length

maxvideolength = 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"))
fontsdirectory = str(Path(assetsdirectory,"fonts"))
imagebackgroundsdirectory = str(Path(assetsdirectory,"imagebackgrounds"))
imagesdirectory = str(Path(assetsdirectory,"images"))
thumbnailsdirectory = str(Path(assetsdirectory,"images"))
backgrounddirectory = str(Path(assetsdirectory,"backgrounds"))
videooverlayfilepath = str(Path(assets_directory,"particles.mp4"))
videos_directory = "videos"

Specify video height and width

video_height = 720
video_width = 1280
clipsize = (videowidth, 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

newscasterremovegreenscreen = True

Specify the color of the green screen in RGB

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

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

newscastergreenscreenremove_threshold = 100

Path to newcaster file

newscasterfilepath = str(Path(assetsdirectory,"newscaster.mp4").resolve())

Position on the screen of the newscaster

newscaster_position = ("left","bottom")

The size of the newscaster

newcastersize = (videowidth  0.5, video_height  0.5)

Add a pause after each text to speech audio file

pause = 1 # Pause after speech

Text style settings

textbgcolor = "#1A1A1B"
textbgopacity = 1
text_color = "white"
text_font = "Verdana-Bold"
text_fontsize = 32

Download images from lexica or skip trying to download

lexicadownloadenabled = True

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