Supercuts(x)Pad.ma 👋

➡️ searches the pad.ma archive by transcripts

➡️ returns set of videos or a single merged video, in other words, a supercut

➡️ this is a dra.ft (probably gonna call all my WIPs as dra.fts from now on)

Prerequisites 👁️

• this tool requires node version 14 or above. If you do not have node installed or have a lower version look here for instructions
• since we are working with video information we also need ffmpeg to be installed, find how to do so here

Usage ⌨️

cd <this folder>
npm i
node index.js "SEARCH_TERM"

Required Parameters

➡️ SEARCH_TERM : the keyword to search by

Optional Parameters

➡️ RANGE : upper limit for number of videos to be processed, default value is 10

➡️ DURATION_LIMIT : upper limit for length or duration of each cut

➡️ FOLDER_NAME : name of folder to save output

➡️ FILE_NAME : name of output file

Usage Examples 🎉

• node index.js SEARCH_TERM -n 200 -c 10

  takes cuts, with maximum duration as 10 seconds, from the first 200 search results

• node index.js SEARCH_TERM -n 20 -dir FOLDER_NAME

  takes cuts from the first 20 search results with any length and uses FOLDER_NAME as the output directory

• node index.js SEARCH_TERM -o FILE_NAME

  takes cuts from the first 10 search results with any length and uses FILE_NAME as supercut output file name (without extension), output is always in .webm

LINKS OF THE AMAZING OUTPUT

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1OejG6FIYhx0UNnvyhC3aLJ_p037wbEGr

TODO 👩‍💻

• add cmd throbber
• find way to shorten length of cuts
• shift to something other than request-promise
• provide more context (?) - transcript etc
• expand pad.ma search functionality
• expand within each result search functionality - pattern matching
• use path instead of template strings for folders