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Guides

Task-oriented walkthroughs for the things people actually do with YouTube.

Each guide is built around a job rather than a command: resolving videos, walking channels and playlists, searching with the full filter grid, reading comments and transcripts, browsing YouTube Music, downloading media with the built-in engine, and keeping what you fetch in a local store. They assume you have run the quick start.

Videos Resolve a video to full metadata, chapters, formats, captions, and the related graph. Channels and playlists Read a channel's record, stream its uploads, shorts and streams, and page any playlist's items. Search Search with the full filter grid: type, duration, sort order, and feature flags. Comments and transcripts Read a video's comments and replies, and pull its captions as text or timed segments. YouTube Music Search and open artists, albums, tracks and playlists through the WEB_REMIX client, with no key and no quota. Downloading media Download video and audio with the built-in pure-Go engine, select formats, and post-process with ffmpeg. Graph discovery Walk the graph linked from a video, channel, or playlist breadth-first with ytb discover: follow uploaders, related videos, uploads, playlists, items, owners, community posts, comments, and the channels behind them. Claims What one read asserts, who asserted it, and how to walk or export the graph those assertions make. The local store Crawl the graph into SQLite, then query the nodes, claims, and reads with SQL. Signing in Optional: hand ytb the cookies your browser already has, and what that changes.