[Question]: How do I query questions on a video transcript?

[michnovka]

What is your question?

I am using the yt transcript command quite often, but I dont get how to ask a specific question, not to just apply the patterns which are stored locally.

E.g. Id like to ask:

yt https://youtu.be/QnpGj3VJEYA?si=s2rdpIICJNxlQitR | ask_question "What is the most favorite taco?"

1. Is something like this possible?
2. What is the best way to use yt XXX tool once and then ask on the transcript without doing the STT conversion over and over again? Like if I have the full transcript once for a video, its unlikely to change. Does fabric support cache for this?

[rxsx]

I don't know if this is the best way to achieve this, but I found this way to ask questions about a YouTube video:

yt "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnpGj3VJEYA" -transcript | awk '{print $0"--- What is the best taco?"}' | fabric

Or using a ZSH alias function:

function askv() {
  yt "$1" -transcript | awk -v q="$2" '{print $0" --- "q}' | fabric
}

and use
askv "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnpGj3VJEYA" "What is the best Taco?"

[mattjoyce]

You can query like this?

./fabric --transcript --youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch\?v\=xApNGEdmdnU "what is the purpose of this utility?"

or this

echo "what is the purpose of this utility" | ./fabric --transcript --youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch\?v\=xApNGEdmdnU

You need to configure fabric with a youtube api key first.