Reddit Rhymes

Turn Reddit comments into rhyming poetry videos with AI.

Overview

This project fetches Reddit comments, uses Claude AI to compose them into rhyming poems, and generates videos with comment screenshots, text-to-speech audio, and background video/music.

Example MP4 (download 23MB)

Setup

1. Install dependencies:

python3 -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt

2. Download Kokoro TTS models (automatically done by run.sh):

• kokoro-v1.0.onnx
• voices-v1.0.bin

3. Check that background assets are in assets/ folder:

• Background video (webm format)
• Background music (mp3 format)

Usage

Run the complete pipeline:

./run.sh [comment_limit] [subreddits]

Examples:

• ./run.sh - Default: 10000 comments from ArtificialInteligence
• ./run.sh 5000 - 5000 comments from ArtificialInteligence
• ./run.sh 20000 "AmItheAsshole,ArtificialInteligence" - 20000 comments from both subreddits

Pipeline Steps

1. Fetch Reddit Comments - Collects poetic comments from specified subreddits
2. Compose Poem - Claude AI arranges comments into rhyming poems
3. Generate Screenshots - Creates Reddit-style comment images
4. Generate Audio - Kokoro TTS converts comments to speech
5. Create Video - Combines everything with background video and music

Output

All output files are saved to the output/ directory:

• reddit_poetic_comments.csv - Filtered comments
• reddit_poem.csv - Final poem comments
• reddit_comment_images_transparent/ - Comment screenshots
• audio_files/ - TTS audio files
• reddit_poem_video.mp4 - Final video

Requirements

• Python 3.8+
• FFmpeg
• Claude CLI (claude command)
• Internet connection for Reddit API