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sonpiaz/watch-cli
[](https://agentrank-ai.com/tool/sonpiaz--watch-cli/?utm_source=badge&utm_medium=readme&utm_campaign=agentrank_badge) Gives a coding agent eyes and ears for any social video: timestamped frames plus a transcript, about 50x cheaper than sending the whole file to a multimodal API.
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sonpiaz/watch-cli is a Shell tool licensed under MIT. Gives a coding agent eyes and ears for any social video: timestamped frames plus a transcript, about 50x cheaper than sending the whole file to a multimodal API. Topics: ai-agents, claude-code, cli, mcp, transcription, video.
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253 stars → growing community
Last commit 1mo ago → moderate activity
0/1 issues closed → many open issues
1 contributor → solo project
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# watch-cli **Watch any social video → get an architecture diagram, working component, runnable notebook, or step-by-step cheat sheet — automatically.** Eyes and ears for your AI agent. watch-cli composes `yt-dlp` + `ffmpeg` + a Whisper-class ASR into a single command that hands an agent the raw materials to "watch" any video: VIDEO + FRAMES + TRANSCRIPT, ready for an LLM to read frames as images and transcript as text. ```bash watch https://twitter.com/anyone/status/12345 ``` Works on YouTube, X, LinkedIn, TikTok, Reddit, Vimeo, and Facebook. Login-walled posts (LinkedIn, private X, FB) work with `WATCH_BROWSER=auto`, which reads cookies from a browser you are signed in to. ## What you can build Hand the `watch` output to your agent with one of five prompts in [`prompts/`](prompts/): | Drop in a video of… | Get back | |---|---| | A coding walkthrough | [Working project files](prompts/implement-from-video.md) | | A system architecture talk | [Interactive architecture diagram](prRead full README on GitHub →
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