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Perfect for syncing with Dropbox, feeding into LLMs, or creating local transcript archives.\n\n## ✨ Features\n\n- 🔐 **Secure Authentication**: Safe login with Otter.ai credentials\n- 🎨 **Beautiful CLI**: Rich terminal interface with progress bars and status updates  \n- 📁 **Smart Organization**: Downloads to `~/Dropbox/Otter-Export` by default\n- 🧠 **LLM-Optimized Format**: Clean transcripts without timestamps, merged speaker segments\n- 🏷️ **Clean Filenames**: Human-readable titles with unique IDs: `Meeting-Name_2CAQZKX4X5V5YILZ.txt`\n- ⏰ **File Timestamps**: Set to actual speech creation time for chronological sorting\n- 🔄 **Smart Resume**: Skip already downloaded transcripts automatically\n- 📏 **Content Filtering**: Skip transcripts shorter than 200 characters  \n- ⚡ **Rate Limited**: Configurable delays to be respectful to Otter.ai servers\n\n## 🚀 Installation\n\n```bash\n# Clone the repository\ngit clone \u003cyour-repo-url\u003e\ncd otter-download\n\n# Create virtual environment\npython3 -m venv env\nsource env/bin/activate  # On Windows: env\\Scripts\\activate\n\n# Install dependencies\npip install -r requirements.txt\n\n# Install the CLI tool\npip install -e .\n```\n\n## 🎯 Usage\n\n### Basic Download\n```bash\n# Download all transcripts to default location (~/Dropbox/Otter-Export)\notter-cli download\n\n# Provide credentials inline (optional)\notter-cli download --username your@email.com --password your_password\n```\n\n### Advanced Options\n```bash\n# Custom folder\notter-cli download --folder ~/Documents/Transcripts\n\n# Different format (txt, pdf, srt, docx)  \notter-cli download --format pdf\n\n# Faster downloads (reduce sleep between requests)\notter-cli download --sleep 0.1\n\n# Filter out very short transcripts\notter-cli download --min-length 500\n\n# Testing with limited downloads\notter-cli download --max-count 10\n```\n\n### List Available Speeches\n```bash\n# View your speeches without downloading\notter-cli login\n```\n\n## 🔧 Configuration\n\n| Option | Default | Description |\n|--------|---------|-------------|\n| `--folder` | `~/Dropbox/Otter-Export` | Download directory |\n| `--format` | `txt` | File format (txt, pdf, srt, docx) |  \n| `--sleep` | `0.5` | Seconds between downloads |\n| `--min-length` | `200` | Minimum transcript length (chars) |\n| `--overwrite` | `false` | Overwrite existing files |\n| `--max-count` | `unlimited` | Limit downloads (for testing) |\n\n## 📁 File Organization\n\n**Filename Format**: `{Title}_{SpeechID}.{format}`\n- **Example**: `Team-Meeting_2CAQZKX4X5V5YILZ.txt`\n- **Benefits**: Human-readable, unique IDs, filesystem-safe\n\n**File Timestamps**: Set to actual speech creation time\n- **Benefit**: `ls -t` shows chronological order\n- **Benefit**: Finder \"Date Modified\" sorting works perfectly\n\n**Content Format**: LLM-optimized\n```\nSpeaker Name\nLonger paragraphs of merged content from same speaker...\n\nNext Speaker  \nMore merged content without timestamp clutter...\n```\n\n## 🔄 Smart Resume Logic\n\nThe tool automatically handles interrupted and incremental downloads:\n\n1. **First Run**: Downloads all available transcripts\n2. **Subsequent Runs**: Only downloads new transcripts (by checking existing speech IDs)\n3. **Interrupted Downloads**: Resume from where left off automatically\n\n## 🛠 Development\n\nBuilt with:\n- **[Click](https://click.palletsprojects.com/)**: CLI framework\n- **[Rich](https://rich.readthedocs.io/)**: Beautiful terminal output\n- **[Requests](https://docs.python-requests.org/)**: HTTP requests\n- **[otterai](https://github.com/gmchad/otterai-api)**: Unofficial Otter.ai API wrapper\n\n## ⚠️ Important Notes\n\n- Uses the **unofficial Otter.ai API** - may break if Otter.ai changes their internal APIs\n- **Rate limited** by default to be respectful to Otter.ai servers\n- **Requires valid Otter.ai credentials** - this tool cannot work without a legitimate account\n- **No warranty** - this is an unofficial tool for personal use\n\n## 🤝 Contributing\n\nThis is a personal project, but improvements are welcome! 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