Friday, 30th September 2022
A tool to run caption extraction against online videos using Whisper and GitHub Issues/Actions
I released a new project this weekend, built during the Bellingcat Hackathon (I came second!) It’s called Action Transcription and it’s a tool for caturing captions and transcripts from online videos.
[... 1,362 words]nat/natbot (via) Extremely devious hack by Nat Friedman: opens a browser using Playwright and then passes a DOM representation to GPT-3 in order to power a chat-style interface for driving the browser. Worth diving into the code to look at the prompt it uses, it’s fascinating.
TIL
GraphQL fragments
— One of [the scripts](https://github.com/simonw/datasette.io/blob/main/build_directory.py) that builds and deploys [datasette.io](https://datasette.io/) uses a GraphQL query to retrieve information from GitHub about the repositories used for the various Datasette tools and plugins.
Weeknotes: Datasette Cloud preview invitations
This week I finally started sending out invitations for people to try out the preview of the new Datasette Cloud, my SaaS offering for Datasette.
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