Parcourse

parcourse.dimwit.me

Parcourse is an open-source app that transforms YouTube videos into structured learning experiences. Paste any URL and get AI-generated sections, summaries, and quiz questions with instant feedback. The app builds a personal knowledge graph mapping your growth across topics, supports multi-user administration, and works with any provider LiteLLM reaches (OpenRouter, OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, Groq, a local Ollama, and more), configured from the Settings page and stored encrypted.

Running it

You need Docker and an API key from a provider of your choice.

cp .env.example .env
docker compose up

Set JWT_SECRET and ENCRYPTION_KEY in .env. Generate the encryption key with:

python3 -c "from cryptography.fernet import Fernet; print(Fernet.generate_key().decode())"

The app is on http://localhost:5173 and the API on http://localhost:8000. The first visit walks you through creating an admin account and connecting a provider; you can skip the provider and add it from Settings later although the app will nudge you to do it anyway.

Tests

docker compose exec backend python -m unittest discover -s tests

Credits

The Parcourse logo is inspired by one of the many potential interrobangs from the Inter font by @rsms, from this GitHub thread.

Licensed under Apache 2.0. See LICENSE.