A lightweight command-line tool that lets you extract and display transcripts from any YouTube video.

• Extract transcripts from YouTube videos using just a URL
• Support for transcripts in different languages
• Handle various YouTube URL formats (standard, shortened, embed)
• Simple and intuitive command-line interface
• Fast performance with minimal dependencies

This tool requires Bun runtime.

1. Clone this repository

git clone https://github.com/MichalBastrzyk/yt-transcript-cli.git
cd yt-transcript-cli

2. Install dependencies

bun install

3. Build the project

bun run build

4. Use the install script

chmod +x install.sh
./install.sh

This will copy the executable to ~/.local/bin/. Make sure this directory is in your PATH.

yt-transcript-cli https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ

yt-transcript-cli https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ fr

yt-transcript-cli https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ > transcript.txt

Contributions are welcome! Please feel free to submit a Pull Request.

MIT