FlorianBruniaux Acquire YouTube source material
Use the packaged yt-insights CLI. Keep acquisition in the main session because it can access the network and modify the local corpus.
Workflow
- Run
yt-insights doctor --json. Stop on failed required checks and report the failed check without exposing configuration values. - Build the preview as
yt-insights acquire SOURCE --dry-run --json, replacingSOURCEwith the user's source and adding only requested filters such as--slug,--years,--lang, or--analyze. - Summarize the preview's selected count, source kind, output target, transcript language, and whether analysis is enabled. Report exclusions and discovery errors.
- If the source is one video and the user explicitly requested acquisition, repeat the command without
--dry-run. - If the source is a channel, playlist, or batch, wait for explicit confirmation of the preview. Then repeat the same command without
--dry-runand with--yes. - Report
selected,transcripts_ready,insights_ready, and the number and details of items that failed. Retain the preview's output target and report it with the final counts; do not invent more specific paths than the CLI returned.
Do not replace this workflow with a downloader command or direct corpus edits. Do not add --yes to the preview. If the CLI reports an authentication or bot-check failure for which browser cookies are relevant, suggest a new explicit preview using --cookies-from-browser chrome; do not add it preemptively.
Never claim that a transcript or insight is ready from the preview alone.