ytmd

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Geet Khosla · Read YouTube captions as evidence, chapter and timestamped retrieval, and feed videos to coding agents from the terminal.

$ curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gvkhosla/ytmd/main/install.sh | sh

One-liner to try

$ ytmd doctor

Agent pack

Copy into an agent

A markdown-ready setup brief with install, verify, safe starting commands, and guardrails for AI agents.

Open .md JSON

Readiness

Great for agents · 85/100

Verify

ytmd --version

Agent URL

/cli/ytmd/agent.md

Quick reference

Install

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gvkhosla/ytmd/main/install.sh | sh

Verify

ytmd --version

First command

ytmd add URL && ytmd read ID --max-chars 4000 --json

Machine JSON

/cli/ytmd.json

About

Read YouTube captions as evidence, chapter and timestamped retrieval, and feed videos to coding agents from the terminal. Built by Geet Khosla. Start with `ytmd doctor` and go from there. Supports structured output — good for scripts and agents. Runs entirely on your machine.

Example workflow

1. ytmd doctor

2. ytmd get https://youtu.be/jNQXAC9IVRw

3. ytmd search cache invalidation --json

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