CREATORS · RESEARCHERS · CURATORS
LINKS ROT.ARCHIVES don’t.
Flucto captures scattered media in one flow and turns captions into searchable Markdown. The desktop app and the fl CLI share the same engine — from capture to archive.
Local-first Auto yt-dlp + ffmpegWindows · macOS · LinuxMIT
Download counts are real aggregates across all GitHub release assets — refreshed every 10 minutes
WHY FLUCTO
Video links evaporate — accounts vanish, embeds break, platforms shut down and take your library with them. Your attention is an asset.
Flucto converts captions into Markdown with living paragraphs and timestamps — knowledge you can search, quote, and rewrite. That is what stays.
CAPABILITIES
One flow. Eight doors.
8 platforms, one app
YouTube · X · Reddit · Bilibili · Instagram · Threads · TikTok · Vimeo. Adapter architecture — a new platform is one file away.
Privacy, first
Everything runs locally. No tracking, no cloud upload. It ends in your folders.
Captions → searchable Markdown
JSON3·XML·VTT parsing, markup cleanup, paragraphing, timestamps. When captions are missing, it says so — no silent fallback.
A queue that never scatters
One URL, a playlist, a .txt list, an entire channel — hundreds stay stable on bounded concurrency.
Desktop + CLI, one engine
The Electron UI and fl CLI share the same TypeScript service layer — plug straight into agents and CI.
30-second setup
fl s provisions yt-dlp and ffmpeg automatically. No system package manager touched.
SEE IT WORK
A channel in, one folder out
channel to-md · dedicated timestamped folder · notes are instantly searchable
Machine-friendly output for AI agents, CI, and batch jobs — --json / --progress-json
CLI ONLY
No app. Just the CLI.
One fl command is enough — no desktop app required. Node.js 20+ and you are done.
npm i -g fluctofl doc -j && fl s --yt-dlp-only -jfl t "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=…" -l en -o ./notes -jPrefer source? git clone … && npm link
Just tell your AI agent.
Paste this prompt into Claude Code, Codex, or Cursor. Machine-friendly output (--json / --progress-json) parses as-is.
“Install the Flucto CLI (fl) via npm, then turn this channel's recent captions into timestamped Markdown notes in ./notes: https://www.youtube.com/@handle”
The agent handles everything from install to the final notes — you just read the result
HOW IT WORKS
Paste. Choose. Collect.
A link, a list, or a channel handle — paste to preview and verify formats.
MP4 · MP3 · MD (captions → Markdown) — pick the output the job needs.
Videos land in Captures, notes in Notes — every job in its own tidy folder.
WHO IT IS FOR
People whose records are assets
Creators — archive Shorts/Reels sources as re-edit references
Researchers — turn lecture & interview captions into searchable notes
Curators — channels & playlists into topic-based Markdown archives
Video flows.
Captions compound.
Stop switching tools. Capture once, keep clean Markdown — Flucto owns the last transform from collection to archive.