Flask-based Web API

This repository contains a Flask-based web application designed to provide an interface to extract transcripts and details from various web content sources like YouTube videos, PDF documents, and Tweets.

Features

• Serve HTML pages
• Extract transcript from YouTube videos
• Extract details from YouTube videos
• Extract transcript from PDF documents
• Extract information from tweets (username and content)

Endpoints

The service exposes several HTTP GET endpoints:

• /youtube_transcript - returns a transcript of a YouTube video, with a newline after every sentence if requested.
• /youtube_detail - returns specific details about a YouTube video.
• /pdf_transcript - returns a transcript from a provided PDF document URL.
• /tweet - returns specific details about a tweet.
• /mermaid_graph with ?encoded_graph= returns a url for a mermaid graph

Usage

To use these endpoints, provide the necessary arguments as URL parameters. Below is an example for each endpoint:

1. http://localhost:8080/youtube_transcript?youtube_url=<YouTube-Video-URL>&newline=true - serves transcript from the YouTube video.
2. http://localhost:8080/youtube_detail?youtube_url=<YouTube-Video-URL>&youtube_detail=<Detail-Name> - serves specified detail about the YouTube video.
3. http://localhost:8080/pdf_transcript?pdf_url=<PDF-URL> - serves transcript of the provided PDF document.
4. http://localhost:8080/tweet?tweet_url=<Tweet-URL>&twitter_detail=<Detail-Name> - serves specified detail from the Tweet. (twitter_detail is optional, defaults to content)