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teng-lin/notebooklm-py

NotebookLM inside your terminal and your coding agents

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MIT
Python

What it is and why it matters

notebooklm-py is an unofficial Python API and a skill that bring NotebookLM (Google Notebook) into the terminal and into agents like Claude Code. It acts as a CLI and a programmatic interface exposing the web's features and even some the UI does not show. By leaning on Google's servers (Gemini), it lets you offload part of the research and synthesis, for example over YouTube videos. It uses Playwright for browser automation underneath.

Key points

CLI and unofficial API giving programmatic access to NotebookLM from the terminal and coding agents
Offloads research and synthesis to Google's servers (Gemini); handy to process many YouTube URLs
Exposes capabilities beyond the web UI; uses Playwright for browser automation underneath

Where we saw it

Chase AI 2026-07-08 Presented as the way to have NotebookLM inside Claude Code via CLI and unofficial API; the author highlights that it offloads research and synthesis to Google's servers for free (with Gemini) and works well to synthesize many YouTube videos; it uses Playwright underneath. 5 Open Source Repos That Fix 95% of Claude Code's Problems

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