cli-anything-notebooklm

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Experimental NotebookLM harness for listing notebooks, managing sources, asking questions, generating artifacts, and downloading outputs through an installed notebooklm CLI.

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cli-anything-notebooklm

Experimental NotebookLM harness for CLI-Anything.

Installation

This package is intended to be installed from the harness directory:

cd notebooklm/agent-harness
python3 -m pip install -e .

Install the upstream NotebookLM CLI if needed:

python3 -m pip install --user 'notebooklm-py[browser]'
python3 -m playwright install chromium

Requirements

notebooklm command installed locally
Valid local NotebookLM login session

Usage

Basic Commands

# Show help
cli-anything-notebooklm --help

# Start with a notebook context
cli-anything-notebooklm --notebook nb_123 source list

# Prefer JSON for agent use
cli-anything-notebooklm --json notebook list

Command Groups

Group	Purpose
`auth`	login and auth validation
`notebook`	notebook list, create, summary
`source`	source listing and URL add
`chat`	ask questions and inspect history
`artifact`	list and generate artifacts
`download`	fetch generated outputs
`share`	inspect sharing state

Agent Workflow

Check auth with cli-anything-notebooklm auth status
Discover notebook IDs with cli-anything-notebooklm --json notebook list
Use explicit --notebook for follow-up commands
Prefer --json only where the upstream notebooklm command supports it

Agent Guidance

Prefer explicit notebook IDs with --notebook.
Use --json for machine-readable output only on commands that support it upstream.
Treat this harness as experimental and unofficial.
Do not expose auth files or cookies in logs.
NotebookLM is a Google product; this harness is unofficial and not affiliated with Google.

References

CLI-Anything: https://github.com/HKUDS/CLI-Anything
CLI-Anything HARNESS.md: https://github.com/HKUDS/CLI-Anything/blob/main/cli-anything-plugin/HARNESS.md
notebooklm-py: https://github.com/teng-lin/notebooklm-py
Google NotebookLM help: https://support.google.com/notebooklm/answer/16206563