Notebooklm

This gives you programmatic control over Google NotebookLM, including features not exposed in the web UI. You can create notebooks, add sources from URLs, YouTube, PDFs, or media files, generate artifacts like podcasts and quizzes, and download everything in multiple formats. The authentication story is thorough: browser OAuth, cookie extraction for headless environments, profile management for parallel agents, and a refresh command to keep sessions alive without full re-login. Intent detection means you can just say "create a podcast about X" without invoking it explicitly. The installation guide is unusually detailed about Python version gotchas with the cookies extra. If you're building workflows that need to orchestrate NotebookLM at scale or access generation types the UI doesn't expose, this is the API wrapper to reach for.

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Install

$ npx -y skills add teng-lin/notebooklm-py --skill notebooklm --agent claude-code

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Files

Gemini Notebook Automation

Use the notebooklm CLI for agent workflows. Prefer --json and explicit IDs so every operation is inspectable and safe under concurrency. Use the typed async Python API only when the user requests application code or the CLI cannot express the workflow. The readiness, identity, authorization, and credential-handling rules below apply to both interfaces.

Setup and Authentication

Requires Python 3.10+. Install the package in the user's existing environment; do not create a separate environment unless requested:

pip install "notebooklm-py[browser]"
pip install "notebooklm-py[cookies]"  # optional browser-cookie extraction

If system pip reports externally-managed-environment, do not use --break-system-packages. For CLI-only use, offer uv tool install "notebooklm-py[browser]" or the equivalent pipx command; for application code, use the user's active project environment.

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Details

Repository: github.com/teng-lin/notebooklm-py
Categories: Backend & APIs, Video & Audio Editing
First seen: May 16, 2026