solrevdev.ytx 1.0.1

ytx — YouTube → JSON (title, description, transcript)

ytx prints a single JSON object for a YouTube URL:

{
  "url": "https://youtube.com/…",
  "title": "Video title",
  "description": "Video description…",
  "transcriptRaw": "Full transcript as one string…",
  "transcript": "- [00:03](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=...&t=3s) First line\n- [00:07](...) Next line"
}

• Prefers English captions; falls back to any available.
• Markdown transcript with timestamped links.
• Works on macOS, Windows, Linux (.NET 8/9).

Install

dotnet tool install -g solrevdev.ytx
# upgrades:
dotnet tool update -g solrevdev.ytx

Usage

ytx "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ"
# or:
echo '{"url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ"}' | ytx

JSON fields

• url — input URL.
• title — video title.
• description — full description.
• transcriptRaw — all caption text, normalized.
• transcript — Markdown list with [HH:MM(:SS)](yt?t=Ns) text.

If captions are unavailable, transcriptRaw is empty and transcript states why.

Exit codes

• 0 success
• 1 unexpected error
• 2 usage error (missing/invalid URL)

License

MIT