youtube-transcript-cli
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Terminal-first YouTube transcript CLI with transcription, reader, history, and AI chat.
A terminal-first client for YouTube Transcript:
npm install -g youtube-transcript-cli
Or run locally:
cd packages/cli
npm install
npm run dev
The setup wizard asks for:
yt_sk_...)Config is stored in ~/.config/youtube-transcript-cli/.
YT_API_KEY or YOUTUBE_TRANSCRIPT_API_KEYYT_API_BASE_URLOPENAI_API_KEYANTHROPIC_API_KEYGEMINI_API_KEY| Command | Description |
|---|---|
| `/transcribe <url | id>` |
| `/chat <url | id>` |
| `/view <url | id>` |
/list | Browse recent transcripts |
/model | Change model/provider key |
/status | Show credits and plan |
/usage | Alias for /status |
/config | Re-run setup wizard |
/help | Show usage hints |
/quit | Exit CLI |
You can also paste a YouTube URL directly on the home screen.
MIT
FAQs
A Node.js CLI that fetches YouTube transcripts from a video URL or video ID.
The npm package youtube-transcript-cli receives a total of 0 weekly downloads. As such, youtube-transcript-cli popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that youtube-transcript-cli 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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