@cli4ai/youtube
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Official @cli4ai package • https://cli4ai.com • Install cli4ai:
npm i -g cli4ai
Fetch transcripts, search within videos, browse channels and playlists (powered by yt-dlp).
npm i -g cli4ai
cli4ai add -g youtube
yt-dlp is required. If it’s missing, cli4ai run youtube … will prompt you to install it.cli4ai run youtube transcript <url> [format] # Get transcript (text|timestamped|json)
cli4ai run youtube search <url> <query> # Search within video transcript
cli4ai run youtube info <url> # Video metadata
cli4ai run youtube channel <handle> [limit] # Recent videos from channel
cli4ai run youtube playlist <url> [limit] # Videos in playlist
cli4ai run youtube batch <url1> <url2> ... # Batch get transcripts
cli4ai run youtube find <query> [limit] # Search YouTube
# Get plain text transcript
cli4ai run youtube transcript "https://youtu.be/AJpK3YTTKZ4"
# Get timestamped transcript
cli4ai run youtube transcript AJpK3YTTKZ4 timestamped
# Search for "terminal" in a video - returns clickable timestamps
cli4ai run youtube search AJpK3YTTKZ4 "terminal"
# Get Anthropic's last 5 videos
cli4ai run youtube channel @anthropic-ai 5
# Search YouTube
cli4ai run youtube find "claude ai tutorial" 10
# Get video info (views, likes, duration, etc)
cli4ai run youtube info AJpK3YTTKZ4
text format deduplicates overlapping auto-caption segmentsFAQs
YouTube transcript tool (powered by yt-dlp)
The npm package @cli4ai/youtube receives a total of 3 weekly downloads. As such, @cli4ai/youtube popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that @cli4ai/youtube demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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