Fireflies Transcript

Fireflies Transcript

Fetch any meeting transcript from Fireflies.ai as raw text via GraphQL. Read-only.

Auth (state-check first)

The API key lives in ~/.fireflies/env (mode 600, never commit or print it):

source ~/.fireflies/env   # exports FIREFLIES_API_KEY
[ -n "$FIREFLIES_API_KEY" ] || echo "MISSING KEY - stop and tell the user"

Every call is a POST to https://api.fireflies.ai/graphql with Authorization: Bearer $FIREFLIES_API_KEY and a JSON body {"query": "..."}.

Step 1 - find the meeting id

curl -sS -X POST https://api.fireflies.ai/graphql \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $FIREFLIES_API_KEY" \
  -d '{"query":"{ transcripts(limit: 25) { id title date duration } }"}' \
  | jq -r '.data.transcripts[] | "\(.id) | \(.title) | \(.date)"'

• date is epoch milliseconds. Convert on macOS: date -r $((1784127600000/1000)).
• The transcripts(title:) filter is EXACT-match — it returns [] for partial names. List recent meetings and grep locally instead.
• Ad-hoc meetings have no proper title (e.g. Untitled - Wed, 15 Jul 2026 17:00:55 CEST). Identify those by date/time, then confirm via content or speakers, not the title.
• Paginate older meetings with skip: (e.g. transcripts(limit: 50, skip: 25)).

Step 2 - pull the raw transcript

QUERY='{ transcript(id: "MEETING_ID") { title sentences { speaker_name text } } }'
curl -sS -X POST https://api.fireflies.ai/graphql \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $FIREFLIES_API_KEY" \
  -d "$(jq -nc --arg query "$QUERY" '{query: $query}')" \
  > /tmp/ff.json

# speaker-labeled raw text (usual deliverable)
jq -r '.data.transcript.sentences[] | "\(.speaker_name): \(.text)"' /tmp/ff.json

# bare text only
jq -r '.data.transcript.sentences[].text' /tmp/ff.json

Transcripts run to hundreds of sentences — save to a file, never dump to stdout/chat.

Optional extras on the same transcript(id:) query: summary { overview short_summary keywords }, participants, duration, meeting_link.

Failure modes

• sentences: null — recording still processing or no audio captured; nothing to pull.
• errors[] in the response instead of data — usually a bad field name; fix the query.
• 401/invalid key — key was rotated; ask the user for a new one (Fireflies dashboard: Settings -> Developer settings), update ~/.fireflies/env.

Verify before reporting done

A pull is successful only if the sentence count is > 0 and the speakers/topic match the meeting the user asked about — check the first few lines, don't trust the title alone.