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yt-fts
YouTube Full Text Search — Search all of YouTube from the command line
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yt-fts is a command-line tool for full-text searching of YouTube content, built in Python. It uses yt-dlp, SQLite, and ChromaDB to support text and semantic search over YouTube data.
Use it when you want to search across YouTube content directly from your terminal instead of the web interface.
Use it to
- Search YouTube captions from the command line
- Run semantic search over downloaded video text
- Store YouTube transcripts in SQLite for querying
- Feed retrieved YouTube text into LLM/RAG workflows
For Developers and researchers working with YouTube text data
- Role
- rag
- Language
- Python
- Licence
- Unlicense
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- Last push
- 2026-01-22
- Latest release
- v0.1.43 · 2024-04-06
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