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CLI app- Give it a YouTube URL and you get a transcription with possible speaker identification and optional summary or translation, all thanks to open-source AI tooling and my lack of enough free time to watch content-sparse YouTube videos

4 mentions on Hacker News by 3 people: 1 story, 3 comments · first 2024-11-15 · latest 2025-07-22

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  1. Always fascinated to read CLAUDE.md files that are appearing in more and more open source projects: https://github.com/pmarreck/yt-transcriber/blob/yolo/CLAUDE.... I'd be really curious to see some sort of benchmark / evaluation of these…
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    Yt-transcriber – Give a YouTube URL and get a transcription
    story by Bluestein · 2025-07-22 · 57 comments
  3. This is pretty easy to do if you have Nix https://github.com/pmarreck/yt-transcriber A commandline youtube transcription tool I built that runs on Mac (nix-darwin) which automatically pulls in all the dependencies it needs
    comment by pmarreck · 2025-07-22 · in Uv: Running a script with dependencies
  4. …about making that not necessary (I don't like forcing Nix on people until they're ready for it) https://github.com/pmarreck/yt-transcriber This is mainly useful for single-speaker videos that are conveying information. Most other solutions…
    comment by pmarreck · 2024-11-15 · in The cochlear implant question