ytgrep is a CLI tool to search Youtube closed captions with a grep-like interface.
- Requires python >= 3.5
pip install ytgrepytgrep is particularly useful whilst looking for particular topic or keywords mentioned in a video.
For example, searching for the word 'topoloigcal sort' in MIT's Open Courseware Lecture on DFS and topological sort:
usage: ytgrep.py [-h] [-e] [-v] [-links] pattern urls [urls ...]- -e <PATTERN> - specify a regular expression to match
- -v - verbose, print debug information
- -links - include the time shortcut link with each match (see example below)
Include timestamped links (e.g. <youtube URL>/&t=196s) to jump directly to part in video where keyword was mentioned.
$ ytgrep -links 'potassium' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIYOshsEqmQSearch with regular expression
ytgrep -e 'banana|potassium' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIYOshsEqmQSearch multiple urls
ytgrep 'banana' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LH5ay10RTGY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFQWVN4xip0Note: Functional tests do download directly from Youtube
## All tests
python -m unittest discover
## Unit tests
python -m unittest discover test/unit
## Functional tests
python -m unittest discover test/functional
- youtube-closed-captions - This project used this library as a starting point https://github.com/mkly/youtube-closed-captions
- videogrep - get supercuts of video matching provided seach terms