CLI tool to search youtube captions
Project description
ytgrep is a CLI tool to search Youtube closed captions with a grep-like interface.
Requirements
- Requires python >= 3.5
Installation
pip install ytgrep
Note: you must have pip’s bin folder on your PATH.
Purpose
ytgrep is particularly useful whilst looking for particular topic or keywords mentioned in a video.
For example, searching for the word ‘topoloigcal sort’ in MIT’s Open Courseware Lecture on DFS and topological sort:
Usage
usage: ytgrep.py [-h] [-e] [-v] [-links] pattern urls [urls ...]
Flags
- -e <PATTERN> - specify a regular expression to match
- -v - verbose, print debug information
- -links - include the time shortcut link with each match (see example below)
More examples
Include timestamped links (e.g. <youtube URL>/&t=196s) to jump directly to part in video where keyword was mentioned.
$ ytgrep -links 'potassium' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIYOshsEqmQ
Search with regular expression
ytgrep -e 'banana|potassium' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIYOshsEqmQ
Search multiple urls
ytgrep 'banana' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LH5ay10RTGY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFQWVN4xip0
Development
Run Tests
Note: Functional tests do download directly from Youtube
## All tests python -m unittest discover ## Unit tests python -m unittest discover test/unit ## Functional tests python -m unittest discover test/functional
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