Youtube-to-Webpage

Youtube-to-Webpage is a Perl script to create a webpage from a Youtube video with a transcript generated from the video's closed captions paired with screenshots of the video.

./yt-to-webpage.pl project-name "videoURL"

Dependencies

The project is built upon:

• yt-dlp
• ffmpeg

Using

To use, run the Perl script with a name for the folder to create, and the video URL. For example:

./yt-to-webpage.pl project-name "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNQXAC9IVRw"

Output

Running the script create a repository according to the following structure:

project-name
├── images
│   └── (…).jpg
├── video.vtt
├── video.webm
├── index.html
└── styles.css

• The index.html file is the generated webpage.
• The images directory contains all the screenshots, named according to their timeframe hours-minutes-seconds-milliseconds.jpg.
• The vtt file contains the captions.
• The webm file contains the video.
• The css file styles the webpage.

Example

You can see an example at https://obra.github.io/Youtube2Webpage/example/