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bradautomates 29b8a2988a Initial commit: /watch skill v0.1.0
Give Claude the ability to watch any video — yt-dlp download, ffmpeg
frame extraction with auto-scaled fps, native-caption transcript with
Whisper (Groq/OpenAI) fallback.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-04-24 14:40:34 +10:00

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#!/usr/bin/env python3
"""Transcribe a video via Groq or OpenAI Whisper API.
Strategy: extract audio (mono 16kHz mp3, tiny payload), upload to whichever
API has a key. Returns segments in the same shape as transcribe.parse_vtt so
the rest of the pipeline (filter_range, format_transcript) doesn't care where
the transcript came from.
Pure stdlib — no `pip install groq` or `pip install openai` needed.
"""
from __future__ import annotations
import io
import json
import mimetypes
import os
import shutil
import ssl
import subprocess
import sys
import time
import urllib.error
import uuid
from pathlib import Path
from urllib.request import Request, urlopen
GROQ_ENDPOINT = "https://api.groq.com/openai/v1/audio/transcriptions"
GROQ_MODEL = "whisper-large-v3"
OPENAI_ENDPOINT = "https://api.openai.com/v1/audio/transcriptions"
OPENAI_MODEL = "whisper-1"
def load_api_key(preferred: str | None = None) -> tuple[str, str] | tuple[None, None]:
"""Return (backend, api_key). Prefers Groq, falls back to OpenAI.
If `preferred` is "groq" or "openai", only that backend's key is considered.
"""
def _from_env(name: str) -> str | None:
value = os.environ.get(name)
return value.strip() if value else None
def _from_dotenv(path: Path, name: str) -> str | None:
if not path.exists():
return None
try:
for line in path.read_text().splitlines():
line = line.strip()
if not line or line.startswith("#") or "=" not in line:
continue
key, _, value = line.partition("=")
if key.strip() != name:
continue
value = value.strip()
if len(value) >= 2 and value[0] in ('"', "'") and value[-1] == value[0]:
value = value[1:-1]
return value or None
except OSError:
return None
return None
dotenv_paths = [
Path.home() / ".config" / "watch" / ".env",
Path.cwd() / ".env",
]
candidates = (("GROQ_API_KEY", "groq"), ("OPENAI_API_KEY", "openai"))
if preferred is not None:
candidates = tuple(c for c in candidates if c[1] == preferred)
for key_name, backend in candidates:
value = _from_env(key_name)
if not value:
for candidate in dotenv_paths:
value = _from_dotenv(candidate, key_name)
if value:
break
if value:
return backend, value
return None, None
def extract_audio(video_path: str, out_path: Path) -> Path:
"""Extract mono 16kHz 64kbps mp3 — ~480 kB/min, fits any Whisper limit."""
if shutil.which("ffmpeg") is None:
raise SystemExit("ffmpeg is not installed. Install with: brew install ffmpeg")
out_path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
cmd = [
"ffmpeg",
"-hide_banner",
"-loglevel", "error",
"-y",
"-i", video_path,
"-vn",
"-acodec", "libmp3lame",
"-ar", "16000",
"-ac", "1",
"-b:a", "64k",
str(out_path),
]
result = subprocess.run(cmd, capture_output=True, text=True)
if result.returncode != 0:
raise SystemExit(f"ffmpeg audio extraction failed: {result.stderr.strip()}")
if not out_path.exists() or out_path.stat().st_size == 0:
raise SystemExit("ffmpeg produced no audio — video may have no audio track")
return out_path
def _build_multipart(fields: dict[str, str], file_path: Path) -> tuple[bytes, str]:
"""Assemble a multipart/form-data body the Whisper APIs accept.
Whisper's multipart upload is small and predictable — doing it by hand
keeps us on pure stdlib instead of pulling requests/groq/openai SDKs.
"""
boundary = f"----WatchBoundary{uuid.uuid4().hex}"
eol = b"\r\n"
buf = io.BytesIO()
for name, value in fields.items():
buf.write(f"--{boundary}".encode()); buf.write(eol)
buf.write(f'Content-Disposition: form-data; name="{name}"'.encode()); buf.write(eol)
buf.write(eol)
buf.write(str(value).encode()); buf.write(eol)
mimetype = mimetypes.guess_type(file_path.name)[0] or "application/octet-stream"
buf.write(f"--{boundary}".encode()); buf.write(eol)
buf.write(
f'Content-Disposition: form-data; name="file"; filename="{file_path.name}"'.encode()
)
buf.write(eol)
buf.write(f"Content-Type: {mimetype}".encode()); buf.write(eol)
buf.write(eol)
buf.write(file_path.read_bytes())
buf.write(eol)
buf.write(f"--{boundary}--".encode()); buf.write(eol)
return buf.getvalue(), boundary
MAX_ATTEMPTS = 4 # initial + 3 retries
MAX_429_RETRIES = 2
RETRY_BASE_DELAY = 2.0
def _post_whisper(endpoint: str, api_key: str, model: str, audio_path: Path) -> dict:
fields = {
"model": model,
"response_format": "verbose_json",
"temperature": "0",
}
body, boundary = _build_multipart(fields, audio_path)
headers = {
"Authorization": f"Bearer {api_key}",
"Content-Type": f"multipart/form-data; boundary={boundary}",
# Groq sits behind Cloudflare — the default `Python-urllib/3.x` UA
# trips WAF rule 1010 (403) before auth even runs. Any non-default
# UA clears it; we identify honestly.
"User-Agent": "watch-skill/1.0 (+claude-code; python-urllib)",
}
context = ssl.create_default_context()
rate_limit_hits = 0
last_exc: Exception | None = None
last_detail = ""
for attempt in range(MAX_ATTEMPTS):
request = Request(endpoint, data=body, headers=headers, method="POST")
try:
with urlopen(request, timeout=300, context=context) as response:
payload = response.read().decode("utf-8", errors="replace")
except urllib.error.HTTPError as exc:
detail = _read_error_body(exc)
last_exc, last_detail = exc, detail
# 4xx other than 429 are client errors — no retry will fix them.
if 400 <= exc.code < 500 and exc.code != 429:
raise SystemExit(f"Whisper request failed: {exc}{detail}")
if exc.code == 429:
rate_limit_hits += 1
if rate_limit_hits >= MAX_429_RETRIES:
raise SystemExit(f"Whisper request failed: {exc}{detail}")
delay = _retry_after(exc) or RETRY_BASE_DELAY * (2 ** attempt) + 1
else:
delay = RETRY_BASE_DELAY * (2 ** attempt)
if attempt < MAX_ATTEMPTS - 1:
print(
f"[watch] whisper HTTP {exc.code} — retrying in {delay:.1f}s "
f"(attempt {attempt + 2}/{MAX_ATTEMPTS})",
file=sys.stderr,
)
time.sleep(delay)
continue
except (urllib.error.URLError, TimeoutError, ConnectionResetError, OSError) as exc:
last_exc, last_detail = exc, ""
if attempt < MAX_ATTEMPTS - 1:
delay = RETRY_BASE_DELAY * (attempt + 1)
print(
f"[watch] whisper network error ({type(exc).__name__}: {exc}) — "
f"retrying in {delay:.1f}s (attempt {attempt + 2}/{MAX_ATTEMPTS})",
file=sys.stderr,
)
time.sleep(delay)
continue
try:
return json.loads(payload)
except json.JSONDecodeError as exc:
raise SystemExit(f"Whisper returned non-JSON response: {exc}: {payload[:200]}")
raise SystemExit(
f"Whisper request failed after {MAX_ATTEMPTS} attempts: {last_exc}{last_detail}"
)
def _read_error_body(exc: urllib.error.HTTPError) -> str:
try:
body = exc.read()
except Exception:
return ""
if not body:
return ""
try:
return f" — {body.decode('utf-8', errors='replace')[:400]}"
except Exception:
return ""
def _retry_after(exc: urllib.error.HTTPError) -> float | None:
header = exc.headers.get("Retry-After") if getattr(exc, "headers", None) else None
if not header:
return None
try:
return float(header)
except ValueError:
return None
def _segments_from_response(data: dict) -> list[dict]:
"""Convert Whisper verbose_json into our {start, end, text} segment format."""
out: list[dict] = []
for seg in data.get("segments") or []:
text = (seg.get("text") or "").strip()
if not text:
continue
out.append({
"start": round(float(seg.get("start") or 0.0), 2),
"end": round(float(seg.get("end") or 0.0), 2),
"text": text,
})
if not out:
full = (data.get("text") or "").strip()
if full:
out.append({"start": 0.0, "end": 0.0, "text": full})
return out
def transcribe_video(
video_path: str,
audio_out: Path,
backend: str | None = None,
api_key: str | None = None,
) -> tuple[list[dict], str]:
"""Run the full flow: extract audio → upload → parse segments.
Returns (segments, backend_used). Raises SystemExit on any failure.
"""
if backend is None or api_key is None:
detected_backend, detected_key = load_api_key()
backend = backend or detected_backend
api_key = api_key or detected_key
if not backend or not api_key:
setup_py = Path(__file__).resolve().parent / "setup.py"
raise SystemExit(
"No Whisper API key available. Set GROQ_API_KEY (preferred) or OPENAI_API_KEY "
"in the environment or in ~/.config/watch/.env. "
f"Run `python3 {setup_py}` to configure."
)
print(f"[watch] extracting audio for Whisper ({backend})…", file=sys.stderr)
audio_path = extract_audio(video_path, audio_out)
size_kb = audio_path.stat().st_size / 1024
print(f"[watch] audio: {size_kb:.0f} kB — uploading to {backend} Whisper…", file=sys.stderr)
if backend == "groq":
response = _post_whisper(GROQ_ENDPOINT, api_key, GROQ_MODEL, audio_path)
elif backend == "openai":
response = _post_whisper(OPENAI_ENDPOINT, api_key, OPENAI_MODEL, audio_path)
else:
raise SystemExit(f"Unknown whisper backend: {backend}")
segments = _segments_from_response(response)
if not segments:
raise SystemExit("Whisper returned no transcript segments")
print(f"[watch] transcribed {len(segments)} segments via {backend}", file=sys.stderr)
return segments, backend
if __name__ == "__main__":
if len(sys.argv) < 2:
print("usage: whisper.py <video-path> [<audio-out.mp3>] [--backend groq|openai]", file=sys.stderr)
raise SystemExit(2)
video = sys.argv[1]
audio_out = Path(sys.argv[2]) if len(sys.argv) > 2 and not sys.argv[2].startswith("--") else Path("audio.mp3")
backend_override = None
if "--backend" in sys.argv:
backend_override = sys.argv[sys.argv.index("--backend") + 1]
segments, backend = transcribe_video(video, audio_out, backend=backend_override)
print(json.dumps({"backend": backend, "segments": segments}, indent=2))