m1guelpf/yt-whisper
Using OpenAI's Whisper to automatically generate YouTube subtitles observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
32/100
- Activity 0
- Release rhythm 35
- Longevity 100
Flags: no_releases
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-02. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: n/a
- age_days: 1441
- days_rel: n/a
- days_push: 960
- n_releases_24m: 0
Adoption not part of the score
1446 stars · 147 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded
A Python CLI tool that downloads YouTube videos with yt-dlp and generates subtitle files (VTT) using OpenAI's Whisper speech recognition models. It supports multiple Whisper model sizes and optional translation of subtitles into English.
Use cases
- generate subtitles for a youtube video automatically
- transcribe youtube videos to text
- create vtt caption files with whisper
- translate youtube video audio into english subtitles
- download youtube audio and transcribe it offline
When to choose
- you need quick, automatic captions for YouTube videos
- you want a simple pip-installable CLI wrapping Whisper
- you need subtitle translation to English
When to avoid
- you need real-time or streaming transcription
- you want to process local audio/video files rather than YouTube URLs
- you need a GUI or web interface
Facets
cli-tool · maturity maintenance
speech-recognition cli video-processing speech-processing media artificial-intelligence python cli cross-platform whisper subtitles youtube yt-dlp transcription vtt openai command-line
1 source
- readme: https://github.com/m1guelpf/yt-whisper · fetched 2026-08-28 · 3cb8491c748a
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| m1guelpf/yt-whisper | main | 32 |
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