Script Generator

What Inspired Us

-As Young College Students with a passion for coding and innovation we wanted to use our knowledge of these topics and combine them with a popular form of media entertainment in today's digital age "YouTube", The popular video platform is largely based upon generating clicks with enticing thumbnails and edits, however a great video must always have a great script to go along with it. Our idea was to use our skills in Python, HTML5, CSS, Flask and combine them with Open AI's Turbo API in order to create a Video Essay Script Generator.

What it does

We utilized clever prompt engineering to generate an excellent YouTube video script using Open AI's Turbo API in order to provide desirable, entertaining and well formatted Video Essay Scripts which can be generated through the click of a button on our frontend web application.

How we built it

-We used Python as our main language along with HTML5, CSS, and Flask and combined them with Open AI's GPT-3.5 Turbo API. We formatted our HTML5 and CSS to be interconnected with the backend Python Script using Flask to achieve a desirable result.

Challenges we ran into

-Our Main Challenge was fine tuning prompts through what is commonly referred to as Prompt Engineering. While we could get Open AI's API to understand our desirable result, fine tuning details such as grammar, outline structure, and prompts formats to achieve the most realistic, captivating Video Essay Script proved to be a challenge which required a significant amount of time, which thankfully we were able to overcome and perfect.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

-As Undergraduates from SUNY Binghamton in New York, traveling 3 hours on a road trip with friends, spending the weekend in a new city the historic Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and doing what we enjoy most coding and learning new ways to utilize technology this entire experience has been nothing short of surreal. We are proud to have traveled from a long distance safely and arrived to have fun and create our greatest Hackathon Project till date.

What we learned

-While we had a rough idea of what we wanted our project to look like, we learned new ways to tweak and find tune our initial idea into something even better. Getting accustomed to Open AI's Turbo API, learning how to use Flask, as well as building a professional and clean web design with HTML5 and CSS proved to be a great learning opportunity and enjoyable experience overall. We have a much firmer understanding of prompt engineering, which is speculated to be a lucrative field in the future

What's next for Script Generator

-While we had a limited amount of time to code here at the Philly Code Fest 2023, we plan to continue optimizing our code and idea into something even better. Our code is targeted at optimizing video essays, but exploring other niches on YouTube will prove worthwhile. At Binghamton's Hackathon, we created an Edit Generator, which we will combine with this to improve both technologies even further. We believe code is a great tool to be used and plan to continue innovating throughout hackathons across the world!