yt-transcript 0.1.3

A command-line tool to fetch, cache, and summarize YouTube video transcripts

yt-transcript

A command-line tool to fetch, cache, and summarize YouTube video transcripts. Optionally generate AI-powered summaries.

Features

• 📝 Fetch official or auto-generated YouTube transcripts
• 💾 Cache transcripts locally to avoid repeated network calls
• 🤖 Generate AI-powered summaries using OpenAI GPT
• 🎯 Extract or generate chapter markers
• 📋 Export to JSON or Markdown formats

Installation

pip install yt-transcript

Set OPENAI_API_KEY environment variable

export OPENAI_API_KEY=<your-openai-api-key>

Examples

Fetch transcript

yt-transcript https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xTGNNLPyMI

yt-transcript https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IziXJt5iUHo

Fetch transcript and summarize (videos that have chapters)

yt-transcript https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xTGNNLPyMI --summarize --markdown

yt-transcript https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IziXJt5iUHo --summarize --markdown

Fetch transcript and summarize (videos that don't have chapters)

yt-transcript https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0RbwrBcFmc&ab_channel=LangChain --summarize --markdown

Publish to PyPI

uv build
uv publish --token $PYPI_TOKEN

TODO

• Add local Whisper transcription fallback if no transcript is available
• Remove fetch keyword
• Create dev and main branches. Add Github Action to test and publish to PyPi.