NotJoeMartinez/yt-fts

Health v2 · maintenance only

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1812 stars · 98 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

yt-fts is a Python command line tool that downloads all subtitles from a YouTube channel or playlist via yt-dlp and stores them in a SQLite database for full-text search. It also supports semantic search using OpenAI or Gemini embeddings with ChromaDB, plus LLM-based chat and video summarization over the transcripts.

Use cases

• search all of a YouTube channel's videos for a keyword or phrase from the terminal
• find the exact timestamp in a video where a phrase was said
• download and store channel subtitles locally in a searchable database
• run semantic search over YouTube transcripts using embeddings
• chat with an LLM over a channel's transcript content (RAG)
• generate summaries of YouTube videos from their subtitles

When to choose

• you want to search a specific YouTube channel's spoken content with timestamped links
• you prefer a local SQLite-backed transcript archive you control
• you want a terminal-first workflow with optional semantic search and RAG features

When to avoid

• you need actively maintained software - the author has declared the project abandoned
• you need to search all of YouTube rather than specific channels or playlists
• you need a GUI or web interface instead of a CLI
• videos lack subtitles, since the tool depends entirely on caption availability

Facets

cli-tool · maturity abandoned

search-engine web-scraping rag llm-inference cli developer-tools cli python cross-platform youtube subtitles full-text-search semantic-search sqlite chromadb yt-dlp transcripts search video natural-language-processing command-line

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