YouTube Guitar Tab Parser
Details
- External ID
- 48898154
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- YouTube Guitar Tab Parser
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- July 13, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 108
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.929510155316607
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Description
I created a simple CLI that turns a YouTube guitar-lesson video into a PDF of the guitar tab.There are services that transcribe music from Youtube videos into tabs, but they never work well enough for me. Instead I'm taking a simpler approach. It downloads the video, samples frames, uses Claude vision to locate the tab region, crops every frame to that region, de-duplicates the crops by the bar number printed on each line of the score, and stitches the distinct tab lines vertically into a PDF.I didn't test it on a lot of different Youtube videos yet, so problem will arise for sure.
Enrichment
- Theme
- audio and music production tools
- Vertical
- Media & entertainment
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- extract guitar tabs from youtube videos
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes A CLI utility that uses yt-dlp to grab video, extracts frames via ffmpeg, sends them to Claude's vision API to recognize guitar tablature, and compiles images into a PDF is trivial to vibe-code.
Discussion
20 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Soundslice, MuseScore, Gemini VLM, Qwen local models, TabIt
Concerns raised: Accuracy/bounding box issues need finetuning, Downloading YouTube videos violates copyright/TOS, Videos often lack tabs, use visual descriptions instead, Claude Vision pricing is expensive vs alternatives, Won't work well on MacBook M1 with local models
Feature requests: Support for piano, Support for other VLM providers beyond Claude, Local model support, Video slowdown and looping features
Competitors
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