Getting started

Install ytb and pull a real video's metadata in under a minute.

Three short pages: what YouTube's data looks like and how ytb thinks about it, how to install the binary, and a guided first run that ends with you reading the metadata, comments, and transcript of a real video on your terminal.

Introduction What YouTube's data really looks like, and how ytb turns it into a command line. Installation Install ytb from a release, with go install, or from source. yt-dlp is optional. Quick start A guided first run: metadata, a channel, a search, and a transcript, in a few commands.