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Bilisum

Bilisum is an open-source desktop and CLI application that transcribes and summarizes Bilibili, YouTube and local videos, creates text and illustrated notes and mind maps, and organizes notes in a local knowledge base for cross-video search and RAG question answering.

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Practical overview

When it fits

Use Bilisum when video material needs to become organized, reusable notes or when you want to search and ask questions across a collection of imported videos.

Who it is for

  • People who want to turn videos into structured transcripts, summaries and study notes.
  • Users building a searchable personal library from multiple videos.
  • CLI and agent users who want to invoke video summarization, transcription or task-status operations.

Documented uses

  • Transcribe a video and save the transcript as text.
  • Create a structured summary, chapter timeline, illustrated note or mind map from video content.
  • Search notes across videos by meaning or keyword, or ask questions using retrieval-augmented generation.
  • Export notes in Markdown or Obsidian-compatible format.
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Requirements & limits

The project documents Windows and macOS desktop versions, a CLI, and Docker deployment. The standalone CLI environment requires Python 3.12. The repository displays an MIT license.

  • Inputs include Bilibili and YouTube videos plus local MP4, MKV, MOV and WebM files.
  • Transcription, embedding, language-model and visual-model components have configurable options; some listed choices are local models and others are services or compatible endpoints.
  • The CLI can share configuration, tasks and the knowledge base with a running desktop app, or be initialized as an independent environment.
  • Docker deployment documents a service port, persistent data volume and access-token environment variable.

Check current requirements in the official documentation. Source-based guidance does not mean OpenViST has run or independently tested this project.

Source-based practical guide

Initialize the standalone CLI environment

Prepare Bilisum's CLI for use without relying on a running desktop app.

Before you start

  • Python 3.12
  • Bilisum CLI installed with npm

Steps

  1. Install the CLI with the command below.

    Documented command
    npm install -g bilisum

  2. Run bilisum env setup to initialize an independent environment.

  3. Run bilisum --setting to open the settings page and configure the environment.

Expected outcome

An initialized standalone CLI environment with its settings page available for configuration.

Guide limitations

  • The README directs users to the CLI guide for detailed environment, command and output instructions.
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9 October 2026
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