README.md

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title: Event Summarizer
emoji: 
sdk: gradio
sdk_version: 3.32.0
python_version: 3.10.0
app_file: app.py
pinned: false
---

# Event(brite) Summarizer

Tool for summarizing Eventbrite events for inclusion in event calendars.  Takes in a URL and a generic prompt, which are fed into a Large Language Model (in this case OpenAI) along with the event scrapes the title, subtitle, and event details.

Originally created for http://sf.funcheap.com 

Environment Requirements:
- Python 3.10
- Environment variables `OPENAI_API_KEY` and `EVENTBRITE_API_KEY`, available through the [Eventbrite API Page](https://www.eventbrite.com/platform/api).

## Eventbrite-specific notes

The API does not return the event title or subtitle, so we use Beautifulsoup to extract them.

The user-generated event description can be hard to parse from raw HTML, but is served succinctly via the API.  The Eventbrite API appears to use `utf-8-sig` encoding. To handle that encoding, we replace `\uffef` with a null string.

These inputs (title, subtitle, details) are combined and fed in along with the prompt.


# TODO:

- [ ] Handle Facebook events
- [ ] Handle errors - will currently error gracelessly on expired events 
- [ ] Meaningfully use feedback / integrate with Weights & Biases
- [ ] Allow auto-regeneration of text if output does not meet expectation (exclusion characters, etc)
- [ ] Dropdown for model type