I just released my first new shortcut of 2024, and it’s one I’ve been dreaming of building for months. Here’s version 1.0 of ‘Generate Alt Text with OpenAI Vision’ shortcut:

This shortcut helps you to generate a quality image description to use as alt text for images you upload to the internet. […]

You can pass an image file or URL as input to this shortcut, and it will send it through OpenAI’s Vision API along with a specific prompt to generate a unique description for the image, including any text found in it.

Get it here from the HeyDingus Shortcuts Library.

@eumrz Thanks; can't wait to hear what you think!

@jarrod Cool, thanks! Can't wait to try it out!

@jarrod Oh, and just for a frame of reference on the cost of OpenAI's API: I've been testing this and my Make.com solution for auto-posting from Instagram → Micro.blog with generative alt text extensively this week. Dozens and dozens, if not 100+ images sent through the API and I've racked up $1.13 across all my OpenAI usage. Normally I pay less than $1 every couple of months.

@jarrod This is awesome! Can't wait to try it out.

@jarrod That mirrors my experience too. I can't think of a use case for the monthly subscription model to Open.ai. I guess if you were regularly feeding it multi-page documents to rewrite or something.

@amerpie Access to create/sell GPTs is one thing, and early access to other features. But I’ve not yet felt the need.

@pratik Hope it works well for you!