I basically made this program to convert Lemmy comments to videos just like those Reddit videos on YouTube. I know that there are a few bugs here and there, I will fix them later. For now, the most obvious one is the transition effect video not showing up during transitions, only the audio does. There also might be issues when you run it, I didn’t test if it works when the github version gets cloned so tell me if something is wrong, thanks. I also just got it to work as I wanted even though there are improvements I could make if it weren’t 10pm for me. I will do the improvements when I have the time, for now, take this one as a alpha version.
Anyways, what do you guys think?
Edit: Sorry about the previous error, made the program remove the .gitkeep files beforehand as they break the program
Edit 2: Added a config.json for easy configuration. I also made a quick project blog page explaining how it works: https://asudox.dev/projects/lemmyctts
It firstly takes the posts sorted by the SORT_TYPE (e.g. Hot) from a community, for example, asklemmy@lemmy.world
It then gets the comments from that random post sorted by Top and selects as much as the COMMENT_LIMIT is. Then the function
screenshotLemmy()fromscreenshotLemmy.pygets called. This function uses the selenium library to simulate the browser of choice (e.g. Firefox) and screenshots the random comments and the random post selected earlier. After that,createTTS()insidecreateTTS.pygets called which converts the post and the comments to speech using the gTTS library. Then,createLemmyVideo()insidecreateLemmyVideo.pygets called. This function firstly creates parts of the final video that will be put together later using moviepy. After all that,cleanup()insidefinalCleanup.pygets called, which deletes everything inside the tts, video/parts and screenshots folder. The put together video (final video) will be inside the video folder.