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+# Required: The YouTube channel to ingest
+CHANNEL_ID=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
+
+# Required: API keys for YouTube and OpenAI
+YOUTUBE_API_KEY=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
+OPENAI_API_KEY=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
+
+# Optional: Python logging level (default: INFO)
+LOG_LEVEL=DEBUG
+
+# Optional: Random seed for numpy, random and torch (default: 42)
+SEED=XXXXXXXX
+
+# Optional: the directory in which to store fetched comments, embeddings, etc
+# (default: ./data). If you modify this, you may need to change the bind mounts
+# in the docker-compose.yml file.
+DATA_DIR=/path/to/dir
+
+# Optional: Misc variables to control CUDA, NCCL, HF Transformers, etc
+# This isn't an exhaustive list and you may need others depending on your GPUs
+# and their setup. We don't control / process these variables; see package docs
+HF_HOME=/path/to/dir
+NCCL_SHM_DISABLE=1
+# NCCL_DEBUG=INFO
+# CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES=1