# nexmoe/VidBee

Download video and audio from  YouTube ,  TikTok ,  Twitter ,  Instagram ,  Facebook ,  Twitch ,  Bilibili , and 1000+ sites—or import local media. Create searchable transcripts on your computer, then summarize, translate, or ask questions with your preferred AI provider.

Repository: https://github.com/nexmoe/VidBee
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/vidbee
Homepage: https://vidbee.org
Language: TypeScript
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: downloader, facebook, tiktok, twitter, youtube
Last push: 2026-08-23T16:49:27+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 84/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 99, longevity 22
- inputs: {"age_days": 315, "days_push": 10, "days_rel": 10, "gap_med": 1, "n_releases_24m": 46}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 10386, forks 795 (observed 2026-08-28T04:10:41.844342+00:00)

## What it is
VidBee is a free, open-source Electron desktop app for downloading video and audio from 1000+ sites (via yt-dlp) and importing local media. It generates searchable, timestamped transcripts with speaker labels using local speech-to-text models, then lets you summarize, translate, or ask questions with your chosen AI provider.

## Use cases
- download youtube videos and playlists
- transcribe video to searchable text locally
- summarize a podcast transcript with ai
- auto-download new videos from a channel via rss
- extract subtitles as srt files
- search a transcript for a spoken phrase and jump to that moment
- translate a video transcript

## When to choose
- you want a gui alternative to yt-dlp with queue and playlist support
- you need private, on-device transcription without uploading audio to the cloud
- you want to bring your own AI provider (OpenAI, Anthropic, Ollama, etc.) for summaries
- you want downloads, transcripts, and AI prompts in one desktop workflow

## When to avoid
- you need only a lightweight command-line downloader (use yt-dlp directly)
- you require server-side or cloud transcription at scale
- you need video editing beyond basic conversion and subtitle tasks
- you want a mobile or web-based solution

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: active
- function: speech-recognition, llm-inference, video-processing, audio-processing, web-scraping, search-engine, chatbot
- domain: media, artificial-intelligence, speech-processing, developer-tools
- platform: windows
- tags: yt-dlp, ffmpeg, whisper, transcription, video-downloader, local-first, rss, subtitles, ai-summaries, electron-app, macos, linux, desktop, electron

## Member repositories
- nexmoe/VidBee (main) score 84

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:10:41.844342+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T17:19:05.501288+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/nexmoe/VidBee (fetched 2026-08-28T04:10:41.844342+00:00, sha 6049e6269088)
  - homepage: https://vidbee.org (fetched 2026-08-29T08:18:46.410285+00:00, sha afa8c97e343e)
  - site_page: https://vidbee.org/docs/download (fetched 2026-08-29T08:18:46.422595+00:00, sha ede43e20123d)
  - site_page: https://vidbee.org/docs/transcribe (fetched 2026-08-29T08:18:46.424950+00:00, sha d47aae863183)
  - site_page: https://vidbee.org/docs/ai-prompts (fetched 2026-08-29T08:18:46.426866+00:00, sha f594577ed1d9)
  - site_page: https://vidbee.org/docs/rss (fetched 2026-08-29T08:18:46.428731+00:00, sha b59e22a02bb4)
  - site_page: https://vidbee.org/docs (fetched 2026-08-29T08:18:46.420686+00:00, sha 21b02bf04b7b)
  - site_page: https://vidbee.org/about (fetched 2026-08-29T08:18:46.430607+00:00, sha 0399428b5f23)
  - site_page: https://vidbee.org/features (fetched 2026-08-29T08:18:46.432322+00:00, sha dda4394c5f74)
  - site_page: https://vidbee.org/changelog (fetched 2026-08-29T08:18:46.434063+00:00, sha d2cc947c6959)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.