🚄 Subway Surfers Text-to-Video Converter

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Inspired by the absolute legend danielbonkowsky/subwaysurfers-text, this project throws some sauce on the original concept. If this container saves you time (or your sanity), go drop a star on his project already, damn it.

🚀 What the Hell Is This?

You ever try to focus on an article and your brain taps out after the second paragraph? Same. This little monster extracts text from a webpage and slaps it onto hyperactive Subway Surfers gameplay footage—turning dry, boring content into something your scrolling-addicted brain can actually sit through. Perfect for TikTok, ADHD, or just making studying suck less.

You get:
🧠 smart content + 🎮 mindless gameplay = ✅ actual retention (probably)

📸 Screenshot

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🎯 Oh Hell Yeah, Features

Converts your average web article into a Subway Surfers-screaming-TikTok-style video
Rips text straight from URLs
Slaps it on top of fast-ass gameplay
Bonus points: speech-to-text powered by Vosk API
Built with Flask + OpenCV + goose3 + Python + zero chill

🐳 Running This Beast with Docker

Step 1: Pull the image, because we’re not building this crap from scratch:

docker pull tebwritescode/subwaysurfers-text20:latest

Step 2: Get the Vosk brain model and unzip it:

wget https://alphacephei.com/vosk/models/vosk-model-en-us-0.22.zip
unzip vosk-model-en-us-0.22.zip -d ./
rm vosk-model-en-us-0.22.zip

Step 3: Drop a gameplay video into ./sources — any .mp4 will do. More videos = more fun. Only one? It'll reuse that sucker on every run.

Step 4: Let’s ride:

docker run -d --name subwaysurfers-text \
  -v ./subwaysurfers/sources:/app/sources \
  -v ./subwaysurfers/vosk-model-en-us-0.22:/app/static/vosk-model-en-us-0.22 \
  -p 5000:5000 \
  tebwritescode/subwaysurfers-text20:latest

Step 5: Fire up your browser and hit:

http://localhost:5000

Get ready to weep tears of productivity as your article runs across a CGI train track.

🛠 Using Docker Compose Like a True King 👑

Replace <HOSTPATH> with the full path to where your god-tier video and Vosk model live.

services:
  subwaysurfers-text:
    image: tebwritescode/subwaysurfers-text20:latest
    volumes:
      - <HOSTPATH>/sources:/app/sources
      - <HOSTPATH>/vosk-model-en-us-0.22:/app/static/vosk-model-en-us-0.22
    ports:
      - "5000:5000"

Start it up:

docker-compose up -d

Fun fact: if you only mount one .mp4, the app will always use that. Mount a folder of them? It picks a random vid each time. 🎲

🐍 The Dockerfile Straight-Up Breakdown

Uses a slimmed-down official Python image
Installs all the nasty dependencies (yes, even ffmpeg and build tools)
Brings in Homebrew in case you're feeling fancy
Copies the app, installs Python and brew packages
Runs Flask like it means it
Your container, your rules

🔮 Shit I Still Wanna Add

Drop-down to select different AI voices (because not every AI wants to sound like Siri on Ambien)
~~NVIDIA GPU acceleration (because some of you have beefy rigs)~~ Nixed this shit, GPU transcoding is slow AF
~~Fix that annoying subtitle-stuck bug nobody asked for~~ I think I squashed this fucker

🧠 Want to Run It Without Docker?

You rebel. Here’s the repo for bare-metal installs:
👉 https://github.com/tebwritescode/subwaysurfers-text-multi

🏆 Big-Ass Credit Section

Massive props to danielbonkowsky for the core idea. This is just a remixed, Dockerized, slightly louder sibling. Go say thanks.

⚠️ Final Note from His Royal Freshness™

Yeah, the container works. It does the job. But it's packing a little extra weight and could use a clean-up. If trimming containers gives you a tech boner, PRs are wide open.

Enjoy learning like a hyper-caffeinated teenager on TikTok 🚀