Room Reader: an offline, open-weight read of the YouTube comments you never answered

说明与用途

Room Reader 是一个单文件 Python 工具，能够在不使用 API 或云服务的情况下识别 YouTube 频道评论中的未回答问题，并输出一个排名列表，帮助小型频道所有者快速回应买家提问。

问题

Small YouTube channel owners need a quick way to identify unanswered questions in their comment sections without incurring API costs or exposing private data.

结果

In a test on four small wax‑melt channels, Room Reader scanned 90 comments, identified 41 for analysis, and produced a single unanswered question, demonstrating effective prioritization of buyer inquiries.

工作流

• 1. Run python3 roomreader.py @handle --videos 5 --comments 60 --check-replies --json out.json
• 2. Room Reader fetches recent videos via YouTube innertube endpoints
• 3. It pulls comments from a public Invidious instance
• 4. For each comment, it runs the DeBERTa‑v3 NLI model to compute entailment probability for hypothesis "The viewer is asking a question."
• 5. It filters out comments with low probability or surface‑level false positives (e.g., presence of "?" or interrogative words)
• 6. It checks reply threads for the channel owner’s replies using the authorIsChannelOwner flag
• 7. It outputs a JSON file with a ranked list of unanswered question comments

证据

Room Reader is a single-file Python tool for the person who runs a small YouTube channel as a side hustle.

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It reads the last few videos, pulls the comments, and hands you back a short queue of the comments that still deserve an answer: the real questions, from real viewers, that nobody ever replied to.

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The heart of it is one function: QUESTION_HYPOTHESIS = "The viewer is asking a question."

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The reply-thread check changed how I see my own data. ... most flagged questions had in fact been answered this way.

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