youtube-wpm

Summary

youtube-wpm is a CLI tool to get a YouTube video's words per minute (WPM).

Installation

pip install youtube-wpm

Usage

$ youtube-wpm https://youtu.be/QpBTM0GO6xI
- Title: [Google I/O '23 in under 10 minutes](http://youtube.com/watch?v=QpBTM0GO6xI)
- Channel: [Google](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCK8sQmJBp8GCxrOtXWBpyEA)
- Time: 9m 39s
- WPM: 179.3
- Auto Gen Transcript: False

Fetch multiple YouTube videos' information as a Markdown table:

$ youtube-wpm --format=md-table QpBTM0GO6xI qSkB8-zL3Mo

Output:

Command help

usage: youtube-wpm [-h] [-V] [-v] [--language LANGUAGE] [--initial-wpm INITIAL_WPM] [--format {markdown,md-table}] [--length-format {short,long}] [--debug | --quiet] VIDEO_ID [VIDEO_ID ...]

A CLI tool to get a YouTube video's words per minute (WPM).

positional arguments:
  VIDEO_ID              YouTube video IDs

options:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -V, --version         show program's version number and exit
  -v, --verbose
  --language LANGUAGE   language code of the transcript (default: en)
  --initial-wpm INITIAL_WPM
                        initial approximate words per minute (default: 180)
  --debug               for debug print (default: LogLevel.INFO)
  --quiet               suppress execution log messages (default: LogLevel.INFO)

Output Format:
  --format {markdown,md-table}
                        output format (default: markdown)
  --length-format {short,long}
                        output format of the video length (default: short)

Issue tracker: https://github.com/thombashi/youtube-wpm/issues

Dependencies

• Python 3.8+